Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Canada came away with three medals on Saturday at a World Cup big air snowboarding event in Modena, Italy. Nicolas Laframboise of St-Jean, Quebec won the gold medal and two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan won Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Quebec won two gold medals this past weekend in a Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah. Boutin won the gold medal in the women’s 1500 metres on Read more
Tracy Fleury of East St. Paul, Manitoba and Matt Dunstone of Regina, Saskatchewan each won their first career Grand Slam of Curling title as a skip on Sunday. Fleury and Dunstone captured the women’s and men’s titles respectively at the Read more
Piper Gilles of Toronto, Ontario, and Paul Poirier of Ottawa, Ontario won a gold medal for Canada in ice dancing at the 2019 Skate Canada in Kelowna, British Columbia on Saturday. It was one of three medals won by Read more
Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen of Montreal, Quebec won the bronze medal on Saturday in ice dancing at the 2019 Skate America event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fournier Beaudry and Sorensen earned Canada’s only medal in the weekend competition Read more
Two Canadian Olympic gold medalists will be inducted into the 2019 Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.In an announcement made on Monday, Simon Whitfield of Kingston, Ontario and Christine Girard of Elliot Lake, Ontario will be inducted at the CBC Glenn Read more
Noah Bowman of Calgary, Alberta won the silver medal in the men’s halfpipe freestyle skiing competition in Cardrona, New Zealand on Saturday. It was the opening World Cup men’s halfpipe skiing event of the 2019-20 season. Bowman had a score Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Maxence Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec won the gold medal in the men’s big air snowboarding competition at the 2019 X Games Norway on Saturday. The X Games Norway is unique because it contains winter and summer Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Greg Johnson of Thunder Bay, Ontario passed away on Monday at the age of 48.Johnson won a silver medal for Canada in men’s hockey at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. At the Olympic Winter Games Read more
Three Canadians will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019. In an announcement made on Tuesday, they are four-time Olympic gold medalist Hayley Wickenheiser of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Guy Carbonneau of Sept-Iles, Quebec and current Pittsburgh Penguins general Read more