Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec won two gold medals this past weekend at a World Cup in canoeing in Szeged, Hungary. Vincent-Lapointe won gold in the women’s C2 500 metre event with Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ontario on Saturday and Read more
The most successful university hockey coach in Canadian history passed away on Sunday. Clare Drake of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, who won 697 games with the University of Alberta Golden Bears (a Canadian university record), from 1958 to 1989, died at the Read more
Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec won two medals this past weekend at the final FINA Diving World Series event of the season in Kazan, Russia. Abel won silver with Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu of Saint-Constant, Quebec in the women’s three metre synchronized Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Bruny Surin of Montreal, Quebec has been named Canada’s Chef de Mission for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This global multi-sporting event takes place once every four years and are for Read more
Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec won two medals this past weekend in events with Olympic status at the 2018 FINA Diving World Series in Montreal, Quebec. Abel won silver in the women’s three metre synchronized springboard with Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu of Saint-Constant, Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alberta has been inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame for 2018.In what was one of the biggest Canadian sports stories from the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Crawford won the Read more
Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario have won their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour event of 2018. On Sunday, Pavan and Humana-Paredes beat Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar of the United States 21-19, 21-14 Read more
Michael Woods of Toronto, Ontario made Canadian cycling history on Sunday. Woods became the second Canadian cyclist ever to earn a podium finish at one of the UCI World Tour’s five monuments when he placed second at the Liege-Bastogne-Liege in Read more
Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec is heading into the 2018 FINA Diving World Series event this weekend in Montreal with a significant amount of momentum. Abel has won three bronze medals in two FINA Diving World Series events with Olympic status Read more
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