Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
We now know the nine men’s teams and the nine women’s teams that will be participating at the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Ottawa from December 2-10. This past weekend at the pre-trials in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, two Read more
Team Canada won the silver medal in a World Cup two-man bobsled competition in Lake Placid, New York on Friday. Justin Kripps of Summerland, British Columbia and Alexander Kopacz of London, Ontario placed second in the second World Cup Read more
Team Canada won a bronze medal on Friday in the women’s team pursuit at a World Cup speed skating competition in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The Canadian team comprised of Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario alongside Josie Morrison of Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Kaillie Humphries of Calgary, Alberta has begun her 2017-18 bobsled season with a World Cup gold medal. On Thursday, Humphries and Melissa Lotholz of Barrhead, Alberta won a women’s World Cup bobsled event in Lake Read more
Elisabeth Vathje of Calgary won a World Cup silver in women’s skeleton in Lake Placid, New York on Thursday. It was the first World Cup competition of the 2017-18 skeleton season and it comes three months prior to the Read more
Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ontario and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ontario won the bronze medal in pairs figure skating at the International Skating Union Grand Prix event in Beijing, China on Saturday. Moore-Towers and Marinaro posted a career best Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medal winning curlers Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, Manitoba each won the men’s and women’s competitions at the World Curling Tour’s Grand Slam of Curling Masters event in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan on Read more
Canada’s high performance figure skaters won three gold medals and four medals overall at 2017 Skate Canada International in Regina, Saskatchewan this past Saturday. Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, Newfoundland won the gold medal in the ladies competition, Meagan Duhamel of Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario made figure skating history on Friday by breaking the world record in the short program of an international competition. Virtue and Moir posted a score of 82.68 points Read more
There is a strong possibility that Canadian Olympic gold medalist Marielle Thompson of Vancouver, British Columbia will not be competing in women’s ski cross at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. That is because Thompson ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament Read more