Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Brooke Voigt of Fort McMurray, Alberta and Jasmine Baird of Mississauga, Ontario won silver and bronze respectively at a women’s World Cup slopestyle snowboarding event in Seiser Alm, Italy on Saturday. For Voigt it was her fifth career World Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan won the silver medal in men’s big air snowboarding at the 2019 Winter X Games in Aspen. Colorado on Friday. It was McMorris’s 16th X Games medal in his remarkable Read more
Mirela Rahneva of Ottawa, Ontario won her second career World Cup gold medal in women’s skeleton on Friday. Rahneva placed first in an event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Interestingly, Rahneva’s first World Cup gold medal also came in St. Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Laurie Blouin of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec won the gold medal in women’s big air snowboarding at the 2019 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado on Thursday. Blouin and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand each had a score of Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Cassie Sharpe of Calgary, Alberta won the gold medal in the women’s superpipe skiing at the 2019 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado on Thursday.Sharpe was one of two Canadians to record a medal in the Read more
Canadian women won three World Cup medals in two women’s ski cross races this past weekend in Idre Fjall, Sweden. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Marielle Thompson of Vancouver, British Columbia won the silver medal on Saturday, while Canadian Olympic silver Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Max Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec has been diagnosed with cancer at the age of 24. The type of cancer is Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the same type of cancer that former Pittsburgh Penguins superstar and Canadian Olympic gold Read more
Canadian curling teams came away with titles on Sunday in the final of the 2019 Canadian Open from North Battleford, Saskatchewan. On the men’s side, Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton, Alberta won his first career grand slam event on the World Curling Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec won the gold medal in a World Cup at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary on Saturday. For Kingsbury, it was his 53rd career World Cup gold medal in men’s moguls and Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Justin Kripps of Summerland, British Columbia and brakeman Cameron Stones of Whitby, Ontario won the silver medal on Saturday at a World Cup bobsled competition in Konigssee, Germany. For Kripps and Stones it was their second Read more