Aurelie Rivard of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec has won her sixth career gold medal at the 2022 International Paralympic Committee World Swimming Championships in Madeira, Portugal on Friday. Rivard placed first in the women’s 50 metre freestyle in the S10 classification. Rivard Read more
Team Canada continued to do well at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Portugal on Thursday. Canadian swimmers won three medals–one gold, one silver and one bronze. The gold and bronze medal came in the same event–the women’s Read more
Nicolas Guy-Turbide of Quebec City, Quebec won the gold medal in the men’s 100 metre backstroke at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Portugal on Wednesday. It was one of two medals Canadian athletes won at the Championships Read more
Tess Routliffe of Caledon, Ontario won the gold medal on Tuesday in the women’s 100 metre breaststroke at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Portugal. She is Canada’s third gold medalist at the championship following Aurelie Rivard of Read more
Aurelie Rivard of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and Shelby Newkirk of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, each won the gold medal on Sunday at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Portugal. Rivard, who was born with no fingers, and only a partial thumb, Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalists Hayley Wickenheiser of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan and Adam Van Koeverden of Oakville, Ontario are headlining the list of inductees into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame for 2022. Wickenheiser, the greatest women’s hockey player of all-time (168 goals, Read more
Joshua Liendo of Markham, Ontario broke two Canadian records at the 2022 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria, British Columbia, which finished on Sunday. In the men’s 100 metre butterfly this past Wednesday, Liendo had a time of 50.88 seconds, Read more
It was a spectacular performance by Canadian swimmers this past week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Team Canada won 15 medals, the third most in the competition, behind the United States at 30 medals, and Italy at 16 medals. Read more
Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario has been named the top female athlete of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo according to Rogers Sportsnet. Mac Neil won three medals for Canada at the Olympic Games. She won gold in the women’s Read more
Danielle Dorris of Moncton, New Brunswick won the gold medal in the women’s 50 metre butterfly in the S7 classification at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 on Friday. This is the second medal for Dorris as she Read more