Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta made Canadian judo history on Tuesday by becoming the first Canadian world champion in the history of the World Judo Championships. Deguchi won the gold medal in the women’s 57 kilogram division at the 2019 Read more
It has been an eventful last two weeks for Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back Andrew Harris of Winnipeg, Manitoba. First, on August 15, in the 32-16 Blue Bombers win over the British Columbia Lions, Harris set the Canadian Football League Read more
Team Canada has won their opening game of the 2019 World Baseball Softball Confederation Women’s Softball Olympic Americas Qualification Tournament from Surrey, British Columbia on Sunday. Team Canada did not just come away with a victory, it was a dominating Read more
Michael Mason of New Westminster, British Columbia and Alysha Newman of London, Ontario each won the gold medal in men’s high jump and women’s pole vault respectively at the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League event in Paris, Read more
The Okotoks Dawgs have won the first ever Western Canadian Baseball League championship. The top junior baseball league in western Canada changed its name from the Western Major Baseball League to the Western Canadian Baseball League prior to the 2019 Read more
Tyler Mislawchuk of Winnipeg, Manitoba won a World Triathlon Olympic men’s test event in Tokyo, Japan on Friday. The gold medal is significant because it makes Mislawchuk a serious medal contender for Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Read more
Crispin Duenas of Toronto, Ontario won two gold medals on Sunday in men’s archery at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.He won the gold medal in the men’s individual recurve and the men’s team recurve with Eric Peters Read more
Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta and Genevieve Lalonde of Montreal, Quebec each won gold medals for Canada in athletics on Saturday at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Arop won the gold medal in the men’s 800 metres and Read more
Team Canada has qualified in women’s water polo for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.On Friday, Canada qualified by beating Brazil 19-5 and the fact that the United States beat Cuba 31-7 in the semifinals of the 2019 Pan American Read more
Team Canada increased their gold medal count to 31 on Friday at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.The five gold medals came in four different sports (wrestling, rowing, sailing and swimming). In women’s 76 kilogram freestyle wrestling, Justina Read more