Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Annaymay Oldershaw of Toronto, Ontario was named the Chef de Mission for Canada at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday. Oldershaw was previously Annamay Pierse before marrying Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark Oldershaw of Burlington, Read more
Team Canada won their first game of the 2019 Gold Cup on Saturday. While playing at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the Canadians beat Martinique 4-0 in the North America, Central America and the Caribbean Soccer Championship, which takes Read more
Team Canada has qualified for the knockout round of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France. On Saturday from Grenoble, France, Canada improved to a record of two wins and zero losses following a 2-0 win over New Zealand. The Read more
Team Canada has qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in women’s rugby sevens. Canada qualified by finishing among the top four teams from the 2018-19 World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series. They were joined by New Zealand, the United Read more
Canadian swimmers won six medals at the prestigious Mare Nostrum swim meet in Canet-en-Roussillon, France on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak of Scarborough, Ontario won the silver medal in the women’s 100 metre freestyle, Read more
Crystal Emmanuel of Scarborough, Ontario won a silver medal in the women’s 200 metres at a Diamond League track and field event in Oslo, Norway on Thursday. Emmanuel placed second at the Bislett Games for her second Diamond League career Read more
Team Canada is in a first place tie with Team Netherlands in Group E action at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup of Soccer from France. On Tuesday, Kadeisha Buchanan of Toronto, Ontario scored in the 45th minute in a Read more
Alysha Newman of London, Ontario and Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario set the Canadian records in the women’s pole vault and men’s 5000 metres respectively in various track and field competitions this past week. Ahmed set the Canadian record Read more
Tyler Mislawchuk of Winnipeg, Manitoba won an International Triathlon Union men’s World Cup in Huatulco, Mexico on Sunday. This was Mislawchuk’s second career World Cup gold medal in 2019 and third career World Cup medal. He previously won gold in Read more
Team Canada won two of their three matches in the Volleyball Nations League this past weekend from the Toronto Dominion Place Arena in Ottawa, Ontario. On Friday, Team Canada swept Australia 25-23, 25-17, 25-18. They then beat Germany in five sets Read more