Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Over the next week, Canadian Sports Scene will take a look at the eight team events that Team Canada has qualified for at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In the first part of the series, we will focus Read more
Django Lovett of Surrey, British Columbia, and Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta each medaled in the Wanda Diamond League Series at the Herculis EBS athletics competition in Monaco on Friday. Lovett won a silver medal in the men’s high jump, Read more
Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta won his third career Diamond League medal on Sunday. At the BAUHAUS-galan at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Arop had a second place time of one minute and 44 seconds. Arop reached the podium by eighteen-one Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Andre De Grasse of Scarborough, Ontario, and Aaron Brown of Toronto, Ontario led Canada to a 1-2 finish in the men’s 200 metres at the Oslo Diamond League event on Thursday. De Grasse posted a winning Read more
Team Canada has won their second straight game at the 2021 FIBA Olympic Men’s Basketball Qualifier in Victoria, British Columbia. On Wednesday, Canada hammered China 109-79. With the win, Canada is guaranteed a spot in the semifinals as the number Read more
Canadian Olympians Kim Gaucher of Surrey, British Columbia and Mandy Bujold of Cobourg, Ontario will be able to participate at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 after all. On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee announced it will allow Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Tuesday, Regan Yee of Hazelton, British Columbia set the Canadian record in the women’s 3000 metre steeplechase with a time of nine minutes, 27.54 seconds. The record was set at the Classique d’Athletisme de Read more
The 2021 Canadian Olympic Trials took place for next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The event took place in Montreal, Quebec. Here are five storylines from the event. 5) Damian Warner getting into shape. Canada’s top decathlete from London, Ontario did Read more
Joshua Liendo of Markham, Ontario, and Finlay Knox of Okotoks, Alberta, set Canadian records in swimming this past week at the Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials in Toronto, Ontario. Liendo set his record in the men’s 100 metre butterfly, and Knox Read more
Georgia Ellenwood of Langley, British Columbia came through with one of the biggest victories of her career on Sunday. Ellenwood won the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting women’s heptathlon competition in Ratingen, Germany, and in the process made the Canadian Olympic team. Read more