According to Myles Dichter of CBC Sports on Wednesday, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Christine Girard of Elliot Lake, Ontario has been named the Canadian Chef de Mission for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The multi-sport event will Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maude Charron of Sainte-Luce, Quebec won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Weighting Championships in Bogota, Colombia on Thursday. The third place finish came in the women’s 59 kilogram division. Charron, who won the gold Read more
Team Canada won five gold medals on Tuesday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The gold medals came in judo, weightlifting, swimming, and basketball. In judo, reigning Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard of Montreal, Quebec won the Read more
Team Canada had a 15 medal performance on Monday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Of the 15 medals were three gold medals. World champion Christa Deguchi of Lethbridge, Alberta won the gold medal in the women’s 57 Read more
Team Canada won seven more medals on Sunday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The Canadian squad won three silver medals and four bronze medals. They now have three gold medals, six silver medals and nine bronze medals Read more
Canada won two more gold medals in swimming on Saturday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario won gold in the women’s 100 metre butterfly, and Nicolas-Guy Turbide of Read more
Team Canada has named their flag bearers for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. They are weightlifter and Canadian Olympic gold medallist Maude Charron of Saint-Luce, Quebec and wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy of Ottawa, Ontario Read more
According to Chloe Morrison of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Monday, Boady Santavy of Sarnia, Ontario won a silver medal in the snatch of the men’s 96 kilogram division at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Santavy was able Read more
For the second time ever, Canada has an Olympic women’s weightlifting gold medalist. Nine years after Christine Girard of Elliott Lake, Ontario, won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the women’s 63 kilogram weight class, Maude Charron Read more
Two Canadian Olympic gold medalists will be inducted into the 2019 Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.In an announcement made on Monday, Simon Whitfield of Kingston, Ontario and Christine Girard of Elliot Lake, Ontario will be inducted at the CBC Glenn Read more