Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta and Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario each won a bronze medal this past weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the final World Cup competition on the 2018-19 speed skating calendar. Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Cassie Sharpe of Calgary, Alberta and Simon D’Artois of Vancouver, British Columbia have won the 2018-19 Crystal Globe in women’s and men’s halfpipe skiing respectively. At the final World Cup halfpipe skiing event of the season in Read more
Three-time Olympic medalist Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Quebec won three medals in two days at the 2019 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. On March 9, Boutin won the silver medal in the women’s 1500 metres and on Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Justin Kripps of Summerland, British Columbia won two medals for Canada at the 2019 World Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships in Whistler, British Columbia. Kripps, along with Cameron Stones of Whitby, Ontario, won the silver medal in two-man Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Carla MacLeod of Spruce Grove, Alberta coached Team Alberta to female hockey gold at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta on March 2. Kassy Betinol of Okotoks, Alberta and Jaden Bogden of Read more
Kevin Hill of Chiliwack, British Columbia and Derek Livingston of Scarborough, Ontario have begun the month of March with World Cup snowboarding bronze medals. Hill won the bronze medal in the men’s snowboard cross competition in Baqueira Beret, Spain on Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec won the silver medal in a World Cup men’s moguls event in Shymbulak, Kazakhstan on Saturday. For Kingsbury, it was his sixth World Cup medal of the season. Kingsbury posted a Read more
Team Alberta has won two halfpipe snowboarding gold medals at the 2018 Canada Winter Games on Friday. Even though Red Deer is the official host city of the Canada Winter Games, the halfpipe at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta Read more
Remi Drolet of Rossland, British Columbia won his second gold medal in cross country skiing at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta. Drolet, who previously won the male 10 kilometre freestyle interval start on Monday, won the Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Brady Leman of Calgary, Alberta won a men’s World Cup ski cross bronze in Sunny Valley, Russia on Sunday. For Leman it was his third World Cup ski cross medal of the season. Leman placed behind Read more