Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario, and Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario have got off to a strong start at the 2021 Women’s Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Cagliari and Sardinia, Italy on Wednesday. Humana-Paredes and Pavan won their first Read more
Team Canada won the bronze medal on Sunday in the Women’s World Rugby Sevens Series in Edmonton. The Canadian team finished round robin play on Saturday with one win and two ties. They then lost to the United States 22-12 Read more
Team Canada won the bronze medal on Sunday in the Women’s Fast Four Rugby Sevens event in Vancouver, British Columbia. The event featured four teams from Canada, the United States, Mexico and Great Britain. Canada captured bronze by beating Mexico Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ontario won the gold medal on Sunday at the 2021 World Canoeing Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark according to the Canadian Press. Vincent, who won the bronze medal with Laurence Vincent-Lapointe in the Read more
Mario Deslauriers of Venise-en-Quebec, Quebec won the 2021 ATCO Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Spruce Meadows on Sunday according to the Canadian Press. Deslauriers rebounded after a very disapponting performance at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, where Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Simmerling of Vancouver, British Columbia retired at the age of 32 on Thursday according to Andy Prest of North Shore News. Simmerling won the bronze medal for Canada in women’s team pursuit track cycling at Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medallist Andre de Grasse of Markham, Ontario won two silver medals on Thursday in the 2021 Diamond League Finals in Zurich, Switzerland. De Grasse placed second in the men’s 100 metres and the men’s 200 metres. In Read more
After two draws, Team Canada has won its first game in the third round of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup of Soccer in Qatar. Known as the CONCACAF Octagonal, as there are eight teams battling for three World Cup Read more
Nate Riech of Victoria, British Columbia won the gold medal for Canada in the men’s 1500 metres on Saturday at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Riech, who suffered a brain injury which led to partial paralysis as Read more
Danielle Dorris of Moncton, New Brunswick won the gold medal in the women’s 50 metre butterfly in the S7 classification at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 on Friday. This is the second medal for Dorris as she Read more