Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec has broken her own world record in the women’s C1 200m canoeing event. Vincent-Lapointe broke the record at the 2018 Canadian Canoe Kayak Team Sprint Trials in Gainesville, Georgia. Vincent-Lapointe had a winning time of Read more
Christine Girard of Elliott Lake, Ontario is now an Olympic gold medalist in women’s 63 killogram weightlifting. Girard had her Olympic bronze medal from the 2012 Olympic Games in London upgraded to gold on Thursday when it was determined that Read more
Canada closed out the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Sunday with a silver medal in men’s basketball. Team Canada lost the gold medal game 87-47 to Team Australia. Team Canada had a record of one win and Read more
Olympic bronze medalist Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec has won a gold medal for Canada in women’s three metre springboard diving at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. It was the 15th gold medal for Canada at the 2018 Read more
Alysha Newman of London, Ontario won the gold medal in women’s pole vault at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Friday. Newman improved from her bronze medal position in women’s pole vault at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Read more
Olympic gold medalist Erica Wiebe of Stittsville, Ontario won a gold medal in women’s 76kg wrestling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.It was one of four gold medals won by Canada on Thursday. The others were Christabel Read more
Robert Pitcairn of Summerside, Prince Edward Island became the oldest athlete ever to compete at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. At 79 years of age, Pitcairn and Nicole Rossignol of Hinton, Alberta competed in the Queen’s Prize Pairs Finals shooting Read more
Alexandre Dupont of Saint-Remi, Quebec won a gold medal for Canada in men’s 1500m wheelchair racing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Tuesday. Dupont becomes the first Canadian with a disability to win a gold medal Read more
Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, British Columbia tied a Canadian record on Monday for most medals at a single Commonwealth Games by a woman with seven. Ruck won the bronze medal in the women’s 100m freestyle swimming competition in Gold Coast, Read more
Olympic bronze medalist Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ontario has won her second gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Sunday. Masse, who also won the gold medal in the women’s 100m backstroke on Saturday (the same Read more