Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
For the second straight weekend there was a Short Track World Tour event in Montreal, Quebec. This past weekend the event was moved to Montreal because of an equipment issue in Salt Lake City. It was an outstanding weekend for Read more
William Dandjinou of Sherbrooke, Quebec won three gold medals this past weekend at the very first Short Track Speed Skating World Tour event in Montreal, Quebec. The event has been rebranded as it was previously a World Cup event. Dandjinou’s Read more
Canada won the gold medal in the two duet events at 2024 Skate Canada International in Halifax, Nova Scotia. On Saturday, the Canadian duo of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec won gold in the pairs event. Then Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Laurie Blouin of Quebec City, Quebec won the bronze medal in the first World Cup women’s big air snowboarding event of the 2024-25 season on Saturday. Blouin placed third in Chur, Switzerland for her 13th World Read more
Dylan Deschamps of Quebec City, Quebec won the bronze medal in a World Cup men’s big air freestyle skiing event in Chur, Switzerland on Friday. For Deschamps. it was his second career World Cup medal. Deschamps posted a score of Read more
In gigantic curling news on Tuesday, Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland has announced a new second effective immediately. According to TSN, Gushue has decided to replace E.J. Harnden of of Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontario with Brendan Bottcher of Sherwood Read more
According to Donna Spencer of the Canadian Press on Tuesday, Kevin Koe has named a new second. He has decided to replace Jacques Gauthier with Aaron Sluchinski of Drayton Valley, Alberta. It is interesting that Sluchinski is joining Koe as Read more
Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba won the 2024 HearingLife Tour Challenge in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on Sunday. In an all-Canadian final, Einarson beat Ottawa’s Rachel Homan 5-4. This was the first Grand Slam of Curling event of the 2024-25 Read more
The 2024 PointsBet Invitational took place this past weekend at Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary, Alberta. On Sunday, Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario won the PointsBet Invitational women’s final for the second consecutive year after trouncing Kayla Skrlik of Calgary, Read more
We now know who will be the two finalists on the men’s side and women’s side at the 2024 Points Bet Invitational at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday. On the women’s side, Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Read more