Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Canadian Olympic gold medalists Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec and Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta won World Cup speed skating silver medals in Stavanger, Norway this past weekend. Maltais won the silver medal in the women’s mass start event Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec won the bronze medal on Saturday in a World Cup men’s moguls event in Ruka, Finland. For Kingsbury, who won the gold medal in men’s moguls at the 2018 Olympic Winter Read more
World women’s ski jumping champion and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Alexandria Loutitt of Calgary, Alberta won the bronze medal on Saturday in a World Cup women’s normal hill ski jumping event in Lillehammer, Norway. For Loutitt, it was her third Read more
Edouard Therriault of Lorraine, Quebec won a silver medal in a men’s World Cup big air skiing event in Beijing on Saturday (late Friday night in Canada). This is the second World Cup medal for Therriault as he won the Read more
According to Matt Tidcombe of the Canadian Hockey League on Thursday, Dan Near of Markham, Ontario is set to be the fourth commissioner in the history of the Western Hockey League. Near is to take over full responsibilities from Ron Read more
Evan McEachran of Oakville, Ontario won his first World Cup men’s slopestyle skiing gold medal on Friday. He won in Stubai, Austria, and in the process captured his sixth career World Cup medal. The qualification results from Thursday were used Read more
Mirela Rahneva of Ottawa, Ontario won a bronze medal in the Women’s World Cup skeleton event in Yanqing, China on Friday. Rahneva posted a time of 2:03.99 for her 14th World Cup medal over her career. Tina Hermann of Germany Read more
Team Canada won three World Cup speed skating medals in Beijing, China on Friday. In the women’s mass start, Canadian Olympic gold medalists Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario and Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec won silver and bronze respectively. Read more
Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen of Montreal, Quebec won the silver medal on Saturday in the 2023 Grand Prix Espoo in Finland. With the silver medal, they put themselves in excellent position to qualify for the 2023 Grand Prix Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won the gold medal on Thursday in a women’s mass start World Cup speed skating event in Obihiro, Japan. It was the first World Cup speed skating event of the long Read more