Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Sarah Mitton of Liverpool, Nova Scotia has won the silver medal in the women’s shot put at a Wanda Diamond League event in Shanghai, China on Saturday. For Mitton, it was her seventh career Diamond League medal. Mitton posted a Read more
Team Canada began the Women’s 3×3 Basketball Series in Springfield, Massachusetts with a gold medal victory. On Wednesday, Canada defeated the United States 20-18 in the final game. The Canadian team was comprised of Michelle and Katherine Plouffe of Edmonton, Read more
Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Quebec made Canadian sports history on Saturday. She posted a time of 10.96 seconds in the women’s 100 metres at the Louisiana State University Alumni Gold Meet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In winning the silver medal, Read more
Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta won his first Diamond League medal of the season on Saturday. He placed first in a Diamond League men’s 800 metre event in Xiamen, China. For Arop, it was his 14th career Diamond League medal Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Lauriane Genest of Montreal, Quebec won the bronze medal on Sunday in the women’s Keirin at the 2024 International Cycling Union Track Nations Cycling Cup in Milton, Ontario. Genest won one of two medals for Canada Read more
Summer McIntosh of Toronto, Ontario recorded the world’s fastest women’s 200 metre freestyle swim time in 2024 on Wednesday. She posted a winning time of 1:54.21 in winning the 2024 Canadian Swimming Open at the Pan Am Sports Centre in Read more
Purdue University Boilmakers center Zach Edey of Toronto, Ontario will play in the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Final in Glendale, Arizona on Monday. In the semifinal on Saturday, Edey had 20 points and 12 rebounds as the Read more
Purdue University Boilermakers centre Zach Edey of Toronto, Ontario won the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Player of the Year Award on Friday. In the process he became the sixth basketball player ever to win the award twice, as Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maude Charron of Saint-Luce, Quebec won a World Cup weightlifting bronze medal in Phuket, Thailand on Wednesday. The gold medalist from the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Charron set a Canadian record in reaching Read more
Zach Edey of Toronto, Ontario is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association March Madness Final Four in Glendale, Arizona. On Sunday in the Midwest Regional Final game at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, Edey’s Purdue University Boilermakers scored 40 Read more