Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
One of the very best Canadian sports stories in 2017 involves Canadian Olympic bronze medal winning snowboarder Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan. In April, McMorris broke his jaw, arm, ribs, lung, pelvis and spleen when he had an accident snowboarding Read more
Three Canadian bobsled teams came away with medals in a World Cup bobsled competition in Whistler, British Columbia on Friday. In the two-man bobsled competition, Canadian pilots Chris Spring of Calgary, Alberta and Justin Kripps of Summerland, British Columbia led Read more
Jane Channell of Vancouver, British Columbia won a World Cup silver medal in women’s skeleton on Friday from Whistler, British Columbia. For Channell, it was her third career World Cup medal in women’s skeleton and it comes with just over Read more
Team Canada won its first relay luge medal of the 2017-18 luge season in Innsbruck, Austria on Sunday. The Canadian team comprised of Alex Gough of Calgary, Alberta, Mitchel Malyk of Calgary, Alberta and men’s doubles lugers Tristan Walker Read more
Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, Manitoba skipped her team to a Grand Slam of Curling title in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on Sunday. By winning the 2017 Boost National by a score of 8-7 in the championship final over Casey Read more
Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, Newfoundland won the bronze medal in an International Skating Union Grand Prix figure skating event in Grenoble, France on Saturday. She placed third at the ISU GP Internationaux de France. Osmond had 206.77 points. Alina Read more
Charles Hamelin of Levis, Quebec won a gold medal for Canada in the men’s 1500m short track speed skating World Cup in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday. For Hamelin, who won the gold medal in the men’s 1500m short Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario and Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta each won World Cup speed skating silver medals in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. Blondin won a silver medal in the women’s 5000m and Bloemen won the silver in the Read more
Team Canada won three World Cup medals in bobsled in Park City, Utah on Friday. While racing on the track that hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, two Canadian bobsled teams reached the podium in the four-man, while Kaillie Humphries of Read more
Marsha Hudey of White City, Saskatchewan has won a silver medal in a women’s 500m World Cup speed skating competition in Stavanger, Norway. For Hudey, it was her first World Cup individual medal in her speed skating career, according to Read more