Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Team Canada has regrouped and evened their record in the Olympic Women’s Basketball tournament. On Thursday in Tokyo (Wednesday evening in Canada), the Canadian squad pounded South Korea 53-74 after losing their first game of the tournament, 72-68 to Serbia. Read more
Caileigh Filmer of Victoria, British Columbia and Hillary Janssens of Surrey, British Columbia have won the bronze medal for Canada in the women’s rowing pairs competition at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Canada has now won 10 Read more
Penny Oleksiak of Toronto, Ontario is now in the Canadian Olympic record books. On Wednesday, Oleksiak won her sixth medal all-time. She is now tied with speed skaters Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen, both of Winnipeg, for the most medals Read more
Team Canada has recorded their first victories of the 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 in men’s volleyball and women’s water polo. On Wednesday in Tokyo, the Canadian men’s volleyball team won in straight sets over Iran, while in the pool, Read more
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