Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
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
Team Canada won two gold medals at the Cup of China on Saturday in Chonqing, China. Piper Gilles of Toronto, Ontario and Paul Poirier of Ottawa, Ontario won gold in the ice dance, while Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Read more
Team Canada has qualified for the 2024 World Men’s Curling Championships in Schauffhausen, Switzerland. At the 2023 Pan Continental Curling Championship at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, British Columbia, Team Canada won the gold medal. The top five teams Read more
Lia Pereira of Milton, Ontario and Trennt Michaud of Belleville, Ontario continued their fine 2023 fall figure skating season on Saturday as they won the pairs competition at the International Skating Union Grand Prix in Angers, France. Pereira and Read more
Team Canada won seven medals over the last two days at a World Cup short track speed skating event in Montreal, Quebec. This came after Canada won five medals at a World Cup short track speed skating event in Montreal Read more