Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
The Canadian Premier League for soccer has found a home for their 2020 season. According to The Canadian Press, the league will have a 35-game season starting on August 13 and ending in September at the University of Prince Edward Island Read more
Nine-time Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Benoit Huot of Longueuil, Quebec, has been named the Canadian Chef de Mission for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, according to the Canadian Press on Tuesday. Huot won nine gold medals in swimming for Read more
All Canadian university football players who were to be in their senior season in 2020, will have another opportunity to play football in 2021 according to Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. Initially when the 2020 Canadian university football season was Read more
Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario won the gold medal on Tuesday in the men’s 1500 metres at the 2020 Bowerman Track Club Intrasquad Meet in Portland, Oregon according to the Canadian Press. Ahmed posted a winning time of 3:34.89. He Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Monday, the 2020 Toronto Waterfront Marathon has been cancelled because of coronavirus. The event was scheduled for October 18, and normally has approximately 25,000 runners. There have been 37,163 cases of coronavirus in Ontario, Read more
Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario broke his own Canadian record in the men’s 5000 metres on Friday according to Athletics Weekly. Ahmed posted a time of 12 minutes, 47.20 seconds in winning the gold medal at the 2020 Portland Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Friday, Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Gary Longhi of Montreal, Quebec, passed away at the age of 56. Longhi won the gold medal in the mixed 5000 metre time trial in the cerebral palsy three Read more
On Tuesday, Major League Baseball announced that the 2020 season of Minor League Baseball would be cancelled because of coronavirus according to Ryan Gados of FOX News. Even though the majority of teams are located in the United States, there Read more
The 2020 World Women’s Rugby Sevens Series event in Langford, British Columbia has been cancelled because of coronavirus. The event was initially scheduled to take place from May 2-3, and then was moved to September because of the pandemic. There Read more
There are now attempts to hold the 2020 International Triathlon Union World Series races in Montreal, Quebec on October 4, according to CBC Sports on Saturday. The triathlon event was initially scheduled for this past weekend in Quebec, and then Read more