Team Canada won the gold medal on Tuesday in the women’s team pursuit at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. The Canadian team comprised of Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario, and Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec. Read more
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario has won her second medal for Canada in women’s speed skating at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. On Thursday, Weidemann won the silver medal in the women’s 5000 metres. She previously won a bronze Read more
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario has won Canada’s first medal of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. On Saturday, Weidemann claimed the bronze medal in the women’s 3000 metres. Weidemann posted a time of 3:58.64. She was one of only Read more
At the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, the Canadian star was Ted-Jan Bloemen, who was born in the Netherlands and was able to represent Canada because his father Gerhard-Jan was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick. Bloemen won the gold medal Read more
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