Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
For the second time ever, Canada has an Olympic women’s weightlifting gold medalist. Nine years after Christine Girard of Elliott Lake, Ontario, won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the women’s 63 kilogram weight class, Maude Charron Read more
For the second time at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, a Canadian female judoka won an Olympic medal. On Tuesday, Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard followed in the footsteps of Jessica Klimait the day before, with an Olympic bronze medal in the Read more
Crispin Duenas of Toronto, Ontario has got off to a great start in the men’s individual Olympic archery tournament. On Monday in Canada (Tuesday in Japan), Duenas defeated Dan Olaru of Moldova 27-26, 28-27, 27-26 in the first round, and Read more
The Canadian women’s beach volleyball team of Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario have won their second straight game in the Olympic women’s beach volleyball tournament. On Sunday evening in Canada, (Monday in Japan), Pavan Read more
Team Canada is in the quarterfinals of the Olympic men’s rugby sevens tournament. On Monday (Tuesday in Tokyo), Canada defeated the host country of Japan by a score of 36-12. Due to the fact that Canada won by 24 points Read more
Team Canada is in the Olympic bronze medal game in women’s softball. On Monday evening in Canada (10pm MT) or Tuesday in Japan, Team Canada will face Mexico, one of the teams they faced in the group stage, and beat Read more
Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ontario made Canadian sports history on Monday by becoming the first ever Canadian Olympic female medalist in judo. The 24-year-old won the bronze medal in the women’s 57 kilogram weight class. Klimkait is the 2021 world Read more
Michelle Li of Markham, Ontario is the ninth seed in women’s badminton at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. So far, so good. On Saturday night in Canada and on Sunday in Japan, Li defeated Nikte Sotomayor of Read more
One of the most untold stories from Team Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 is the fact that Mo Zhang of Vancouver, British Columbia is in the fourth round of the women’s table tennis tournament. The 21st seed Read more
Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario is Canada’s first gold medalist from the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. On Sunday evening in Canada and Monday morning in Japan, Mac Neil posted a winning time of 55.59 seconds to place first Read more