Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Heading into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Christa Deguchi was the clear gold medal favourite in the women’s 57 kilogram weight class. On Monday, Deguchi made Canadian sports history by becoming the very first Canadian judoka to win gold. Read more
Team Canada made the quarterfinals of the women’s rugby sevens competition at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Monday, Canada defeated China 26-17 in their final Group A game. Canada finished the group with a record of two wins Read more
Team Canada has won its third medal of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Monday, Rylan Wiens of Calgary, Alberta and Nathan Zsombor-Murray of Montreal, Quebec won bronze in the men’s 10 metre synchronized platform diving. Wiens and Zsombor-Murray Read more
Here is Canada’s schedule for Monday in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games. All eyes will be on Summer McIntosh in her quest for gold in the women’s 400 metre individual medley, where the Toronto teen has the world record. Read more
With all of the controversy surrounding the Olympic Women’s Soccer tournament for Team Canada, the fact that they have won* both their games is significant. On Sunday, Canada stayed alive in the tournament with a 2-1 win over the host Read more
For the first time ever, a Canadian is an Olympic medalist in the sport of fencing. On Sunday, Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario made Olympic history by winning bronze in the women’s foil fencing event. It was an all-North American Read more
Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario reached the quarterfinals of the women’s foil fencing tournament of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. This is the second straight day a Canadian fencer reached the quarterfinals after Fares Arfa qualified for the quarterfinals Read more
Soccer Canada has named Andy Spence of Liverpool, England the new interim head coach of the Canadian Women’s Soccer National Team effective immediately. Spence takes over from Bev Priestman, who was suspended one year by FIFA on Saturday for her Read more
Fares Arfa made Canadian Olympic fencing history on Saturday. By advancing to the quarterfinals of the men’s sabre event, he finished in eighth place. That is the best result ever by a Canadian male fencer in the history of the Read more
The second day of the 2024 Olympic Games is just as jammed packed as Saturday. The sports I will keep an eye on are badminton, judo, tennis, fencing, soccer, rugby sevens, swimming, table tennis, and volleyball. Canadian tennis players will Read more