Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
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
The Northwest Territories and Prince Edward Island have won medals at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer.Both medals came in the sport of judo. The Northwest Territories medal came from Wilson Elliott of Yellowknife in the male 81 Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Rosannagh MacLennan of King City, Ontario won the silver medal in the first World Cup women’s trampoline competition of the 2019 season. MacLennan placed second in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday. MacLennan posted a silver medal Read more
In most Olympic events, if you are ranked in the top two in the Olympic rankings list, it is good enough to qualify for an Olympic games. That is not the case for Canadian judokas Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta Read more
Team Canada has qualified for the 2019 Davis Cup in Madrid, Spain. This past weekend in Bratislava, Slovakia, Canada won three of five matches, to beat Slovakia in exciting Davis Cup qualifying action. On Friday, Denis Shapovalov of Toronto, Ontario opened Read more