Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Antoine Valois-Fortier of Quebec City, Quebec found the podium twice in back-to-back weeks as he prepares for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The judokan who placed third at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, won the Read more
Team Canada came away with two medals in events with Olympic status at the 2019 Artistic Swimming World Series event in Alexandroupolis, Greece on Sunday.Canada won a silver medal in the women’s team highlight competition and a bronze in the Read more
Bridget Carleton of Chatham, Ontario was selected in the second round, 21st overall by the Connecticut Sun in the 2019 WNBA Draft on Wednesday. A guard with Iowa State, Carleton averaged 21.7 points with the Cyclones this past season. Read more
Ellie Black of Halifax, Nova Scotia won the silver medal in a World Cup artistic gymnastics all-around event in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. Black posted a second place score of 55.032 points, for her 11th career World Cup medal. Black Read more
Seven Canadians have qualified for the sweet 16 of the 2019 NCAA Basketball Tournament. They are Duke shooting guard R.J. Barrett of Toronto, Ontario, Michigan small forward Ignas Brazdeikis of Oakville, Ontario, Tennessee forward Kyle Alexander of Milton, Ontario, Virginia Read more
March Madness begins on Tuesday with two play-in games. Two more play-in games will then take place on Wednesday, with the majority of the teams who qualified for the American College Basketball Championship starting the tournament either Thursday or Friday. Read more
Ana Padurariu of Whitby, Ontario won a World Cup silver medal in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics competition in Stuttgart, Germany on Sunday. The silver medal was significant because Padurariu was competing in her first World Cup competition in her Read more
Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won a World Cup women’s judo competition in Ekaterinburg, Russia on Friday. For Deguchi, it was her second gold medal of the season at a judo grand slam event as she also won the Read more
Tyler Mislawchuk of Winnipeg, Manitoba won his first World Cup men’s triathlon competition on Saturday in Mooloolaba, Australia.The win is significant for Mislawchuk because it comes a year and a half away from the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal, Quebec won four medals in FINA Diving World Series events with Olympic status over two weekends in Asia during the month of March. Benfeito won two medals each in the competitions in Read more