Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
There will be no Memorial Cup in 2020. On Monday, the Canadian Hockey League announced that the most prestigious national junior ice hockey championship in Canada will not take place as scheduled because of the Coronavirus according to Patrick Read more
With the 2019-20 curling season coming to a significantly abrupt and unfortunate end due to the Coronavirus, there are some interesting changes to report from Canadian high performance curling teams over the last 48 hours. The changes have been put Read more
The University of Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and the University of Alberta Pandas won the 2020 Men’s and Women’s Canadian University Curling Championships respectively from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba on Sunday. In the men’s championship final, the Golden Hawks defeated Read more
In an interesting decision on Thursday, Curling Canada, in association with USports and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, decided to carry on with the Canadian University Curling Championships and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Curling Championships for men and women Read more
Wow. On Thursday, among the sporting events in Canada that were cancelled due to the Coronavirus were the Women’s World Curling Championships in Prince George, British Columbia, the World Cup cross country skiing events in Quebec City, Quebec and Canmore, Read more
On Wednesday it was reported by the World Health Organization, that there is currently a global pandemic. Due to Coronavirus, there have been 4,749 deaths and 129,158 total cases according to the worldometer. So far, there have been many international Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland has won his third Canadian national men’s curling championship as a skip. On Sunday, the Canadian Olympic gold medalist from the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, won the 2020 Tim Read more
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario won her third World Cup gold medal of the season on Saturday. In the women’s 3000m World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Weidemann had a winning time of 3:59.759 and was the only speed skater to Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan is now in the Winter X Games record books. On Saturday, McMorris placed first in the men’s big air snowboarding competition at the Winter X Games Norway in Oslo. With Read more
Lewis Irving of Quebec City, Quebec won a World Cup aerials bronze medal on Sunday from Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It was Irving’s third World Cup medal of his career and second of the season. Irving posted a third place score Read more