It was a fantastic weekend for Canadian speed skaters at the World Cup speed skating event at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta this past weekend. Canadian speed skaters came away with eight medals, eclipsing the total of seven medals Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won two World Cup gold medals in Salt Lake City on the weekend. She placed first in the women’s team pursuit with Olympic silver medalist Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec and Isabelle Weidemann of Read more
Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Quebec had an outstanding weekend in World Cup speed skating in Stavanger, Norway. The World Cup leader won a gold medal in the men’s 500 metre World Cup race on Saturday and then a silver medal Read more
The Canadian team of Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario, Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario, and Canadian Olympic silver medalist Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec, won the gold medal on Saturday in the women’s team pursuit in the first World Read more
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario has broken the Canadian record in the women’s 5000 metre speed skating event. On Thursday, Weidemann posted a time of six minutes, 46.81 seconds at the 2021 Canadian Long Track Speed Skating Championships from the Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario, and Laurent Dubreuil of Quebec City, Quebec each won their second medal for Canada on Saturday at the 2021 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Blondin won silver in the women’s mass Read more
Laurent Dubreuil of Quebec City, Quebec won the gold medal on Friday in the men’s 500 metres at the 2021 World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands. It is the third career medal for Dubreuil at the World Speed Skating Read more
After winning five World Cup medals a weekend ago in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Team Canada won one more this past weekend in Heerenveen, as they won six medals–one gold, three silver, and two bronze medals. The gold medal came in women’s Read more
According to Brandi Awad of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Team Canada won five medals on the weekend at the International Skating Union World Cup speed skating competition in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Canada came away with medals in the men’s and women’s Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Catriona Le May Doan of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan has been named the Chef de Mission for Canada at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing according to Scott Russell of CBC Sports on Tuesday. There is no Read more