Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Eric Lamaze of Montreal, Quebec won the 2019 Royal Bank of Canada Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows, south of Calgary. Alberta on Saturday. For Lamaze, who is currently battling a brain tumour, won in a jump Read more
Leylah Annie Fernandez of Montreal, Quebec won the girls singles competition at the 2019 French Open on Saturday. In the final, Fernandez defeated Emma Navarro of the United States 6-3, 6-2. The other girls tennis players Fernandez beat en route Read more
The 2019 Women’s World Cup began on Friday afternoon with an impressive 4-0 win by France over South Korea. Team Canada meanwhile will begin their tournament on Monday against Cameroon from Montpellier. Their following two games are on June 15 against Read more
Brandon McBride of Windsor, Ontario won a bronze medal in a men’s 800 metre race at a Diamond League event in Rome on Thursday. It was McBride’s third career medal in the men’s 800 metres in Diamond League action. He Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak of Toronto, Ontario and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ontario each won gold at the FINA Champions Swim Series in Indianapolis, Indiana this past weekend. Oleksiak won gold in the women’s Read more
Team Canada delivered a very impressive upset in Nations League Volleyball action on Sunday. In men’s volleyball action from the Aconcagua Arena in Mendoza, Argentina, Canada delivered a 25-21, 29-27, 16-25, 26-24 win over the host Argentinian team of Pool Read more
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec and Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ontario won the gold medal and silver medal respectively in the women’s C1 200 metres at a World Cup sprint canoeing competition in Duisburg, Germany on Saturday. They also teamed Read more
It has been a really good last two weeks for Canadian artistic swimmers Claudia Holzner of Calgary, Alberta and Jacqueline Simoneau of Chambly, Quebec. In the two World Series artistic swimming events in North America in 2019, Holzner and Simoneau Read more
Brittany Crew of Mississauga, Ontario set the Canadian record in the women’s shot put on Saturday. Crew threw the shot put 18.69 metres to finish in third place at the Hallesche Werfertage International Outdoor Track and Field Meet in Read more
Team Canada won four medals at the 2019 Hohhot Grand Prix in China from May 24-26. The multiple medals at the prestigious international judo event is just a prime example of just how much depth the Canadian international judo program Read more