Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Team Canada continued their success in international judo this past weekend at the Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary.The Canadian squad came away with four bronze medals–three on the women’s side and one on the men’s side. Ecaterina Guica of La Read more
Canada won the bronze medal at the 2018 Women’s World Softball Championship in Chiba, Japan on Sunday. It was Canada’s fourth medal in the history of the Women’s World Softball Championships. They previously won silver in 1978 in San Salvador, Read more
Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, British Columbia set a Canadian record on Sunday for the most medals won a single Pan Pacific Swimming Championship with five. She set the record by winning the silver medal in the women’s 200 metre backstroke Read more
Aurelie Rivard of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec broke her own world record in the women’s 400 metre freestyle swimming event in the S10 classification. Rivard broke her own world record with a time of 4:29.27 on Thursday at the Pan Pacific Read more
Christa Deguchi of Montreal, Quebec won an all-Canadian judo final at the 2018 Zagreb Grand Prix on Sunday. Deguchi won the gold medal in the women’s 57 kilogram division as she defeated Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario. Klimkait picked up Read more
Team Canada won the silver medal on Saturday at the 2018 World Men’s Lacrosse Championship in Netanya, Israel. Team Canada qualified for the gold medal game, but lost to the United States by a score of 9-8. Canada qualified Read more
Brandon McBride of Windsor, Ontario set the Canadian record in the men’s 800m on Friday. McBride posted a time of 1:43.2 seconds at the International Association of Athletics Federation Herculis Grand Prix event in Monaco. Even though the event Read more
Team Canada is in the semifinals of the 2018 World Men’s Lacrosse Championship in Netanya, Israel. On Tuesday, Canada trounced Australia 13-7 to guarantee themselves a second place spot in the Blue Division. At four wins and one loss at the Read more
Team Canada came away with four World Cup medals in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sunday. The Canadian team won silver in the women’s pairs, women’s double sculls and women’s eights and a bronze medal from Carling Zeeman of Hamilton, Ontario Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Erica Wiebe of Stittsville, Ontario and Jevon Balfour of Scarborough, Ontario each won the gold medal on Saturday at the 2018 Grand Prix of Spain freestyle wrestling competition from Madrid. It was a fantastic weekend for Read more