Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Skylar Park of Winnipeg, Manitoba is an Olympic bronze medalist. On Thursday, the 25-year-old placed third in the women’s 57 kilogram division. Park, the fourth seed, defeated Laetitia Aoun of Lebanon in the bronze medal bout. Park won the first Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maude Charron of Saint-Luce, Quebec is now a Canadian Olympic silver medalist. After winning the gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 in the women’s 64 kilogram weight class, she needed to Read more
Team Canada is in the gold medal game on Friday in women’s beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Thursday in the first of two semifinals, Canada’s Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario defeated the Read more
The 13th day of the 2024 Olympic Games takes place on Thursday. Team Canada has medal opportunities in taekwondo, weightlifting, track cycling and hurdles. Skylar Park of Winnipeg, Manitoba won the bronze medal in the women’s 57 kilograms at the Read more
Alysha Newman of London, Ontario became the first Canadian female ever to win an Olympic medal in the pole vault. She vaulted a Canadian record vault 4.85 metres on Thursday, and in the process won a bronze medal. Nina Kennedy Read more
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson of Toronto, Ontario are in the final four of the Olympic women’s beach volleyball tournament. On Wednesday, Canada defeated Daniela Alvarez Mendoza and Tania Moreno Mateeva of Spain, 21-18, 21-18 in the third of four Read more
The 2024 Olympic Games continues on Wednesday. Among the sports worth to monitor from a Canadian perspective are women’s golf, track cycling, women’s beach volleyball, women’s pole vault, artistic swimming and the men’s 3000 metre steeplechase. The spotlight will be Read more
Team Canada has won its sixth gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Tuesday, the Canadian gold medalist was women’s hammer thrower Camryn Rogers of Richmond, British Columbia. Rogers had a throw of 76.97 metres. Anette Echikunwoke Read more
It is definitely an intriguing day from a Canadian standpoint at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. All the focus will be in the women’s hammer throw as Camryn Rogers of Richmond, British Columbia is a medal contender. Rogers is Read more
Team Canada is in the quarterfinals of women’s beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Monday, the Canadian team of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson knocked off the United States in the round of 16, by a Read more