Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Simmerling of Vancouver, British Columbia won World Cup women’s ski cross medals on back-to-back days this past week in Innichen, Italy. Simmerling won a silver medal on Thursday and a bronze medal on Friday. On Thursday, Read more
For the first time ever, Team Canada has won an Olympic medal in the sport of luge. On Friday, the Canadian team of Samuel Edney, Tristan Snith, Justin Walker and Alex Gough of Calgary, Alberta made Canadian sports history by winning Read more
Justin Kripps of Summerland, British Columbia won two World Cup silver medals in Igls, Austria this weekend. Kripps won a silver medal with Jesse Lumsden of Edmonton, Alberta in the two-man World Cup on Saturday and then piloted the Canadian four-man Read more
Alex Gough of Calgary, Alberta and Kimberley McRae of Victoria, British Columbia each earned medals in a women’s World Cup in Lake Placid, New York on Saturday. It was Gough’s second silver medal in the women’s World Cup this season after Read more
Elisabeth Vathje of Calgary, Alberta and Mirela Rahneva of Ottawa, Ontario each earned a medal at a women’s World Cup skeleton competition in Igls, Austria on Friday. Vathje won the silver medal and Rahneva won the bronze medal. Vathje posted Read more
Lewis Irving of Quebec City, Quebec won a bronze medal on Saturday in a World Cup aerials event in Secret Garden, China. For Irving, it was his first World Cup aerials medal in his career. Irving posted a score of Read more
Kevin Drury of Toronto, Ontario and Brittany Phelan of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec each won a medal for Canada on Monday at World Cup ski cross competitions in Arosa, Switzerland. Drury won the silver medal in the men’s ski cross and Phelan Read more
Kevin Koe of Calgary will skip Team Canada in men’s curling at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. On Sunday, Team Koe defeated Team McEwen, skipped by Mike McEwen of Winnipeg 7-6 in the men’s final of the 2017 Canadian Read more
Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta set a World Record on Sunday in the men’s 5000m speed skating at a World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bloemen posted a gold medal winning time of 6:01.86 to beat the old world Read more
Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario will be the skip for Team Canada in women’s curling at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. On Sunday, in the women’s final of the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials at the Canadian Tire Read more