According to Dan Barnes of Postmedia, three-time Canadian Olympic rowing gold medalist Kathleen Heddle of Trail, British Columbia passed away at the age of 55 on Monday. Heddle had cancer in her brain, lymph nodes, and breast over the last Read more
St. Catharines, Ontario has been awarded the host city of the 2024 World Rowing Championships. In an announcement made on Monday, this will be the third time St. Catharines has hosted the World Rowing Championship and the fifth time Read more
Caileigh Filmer of Victoria, British Columbia and Hillary Janssens of Surrey, British Columbia have won the bronze medal in women’s pairs at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria. This was the second straight year that Filmer and Janssens Read more
Team Canada increased their gold medal count to 31 on Friday at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.The five gold medals came in four different sports (wrestling, rowing, sailing and swimming). In women’s 76 kilogram freestyle wrestling, Justina Read more
Team Canada came away with two bronze medals on Sunday in a Rowing World Cup in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Gabrielle Smith of Unionville, Ontario and Andrea Proske of Langley, British Columbia won the bronze medal in the women’s doubles sculls and Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Marnie McBean of Vancouver, British Columbia has been named Canada’s chef de mission for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. McBean won a gold medal in women’s pairs with Kathleen Heddle of Trail, British Columbia at the Read more
Team Canada won three bronze medals on Sunday in a World Cup of Rowing event in Poznan, Poland. Carling Zeeman of Hamilton, Ontario won the bronze medal in women’s single sculls, Olympic silver medalist Conlin McCabe of Brockville, Ontario and Read more
Three Canadian Olympic gold medalists will be inducted into the Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary, Alberta in 2019. They are hockey player Martin Brodeur of Montreal, Quebec (men’s ice hockey), Jayna Hefford of Trenton, Ontario (women’s hockey) and Read more
Doug Vandor of Montreal, Quebec has been named the Canadian chef de mission for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Vandor competed for Canada in men’s lightweight double sculls at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Read more
Caileigh Filmer of Victoria, British Columbia and Hillary Janssens of Cloverdale, British Columbia won a gold medal for Canada on Saturday at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was the only gold medal for Canada in an event Read more