Karla Godinez Gonzalez of Coquitlam, British Columbia has won Canada’s first medal of the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. On Tuesday, Godinez Gonzalez won a bronze medal in the women’s 55 kilogram freestyle division. Godinez Gonzalez was in the Read more
Nunavut has won its first ever gold medal at the Canada Summer Games. In the men’s 52 kilogram wrestling division in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Eekeeluak Clarence Avalak of Cambridge Bay reached the top of the podium, and as a result Read more
Team Canada won 17 medals on the final Saturday of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Of the 17 medals, were three gold medals, five silver medals and nine bronze medals. The gold medals came in wrestling and athletics. In Read more
Amar Dhesi of Surrey, British Columbia is a Canadian Commonwealth Games gold medalist. On Friday, Dhesi won the gold medal in the men’s 125 kilogram freestyle wrestling division. Dhesi’s Commonwealth Games gold goes along with his World Junior Championship gold Read more
Team Canada won 14 wrestling medals at the Spanish Grand Prix this past weekend in Madrid. In all Canada won two gold medals, four silver medals, and eight bronze medals. The two Canadian gold medalists at the Grand Prix of Read more
Madison Parks of Komoka, Ontario won the gold medal in the women’s 50 kilogram division at the Matteo Pellicone women’s freestyle wrestling competition in Rome, Italy on Friday. Parks was one of two Canadian medalists as Samantha Stewart of London, Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Damian Warner of London, Ontario will be receiving a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto on December 4 at the Beanfield Centre according to Chris Faria of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Monday. Warner Read more
Samantha Stewart of London, Ontario won the bronze medal on Wednesday at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway. It was Canada’s only medal from the World Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships, which concluded on Sunday. Stewart placed third Read more
Canada has had some outstanding female wrestlers over the last 30 years. They have included six-time world champion Christine Nordhagen of Valhalla, Alberta, two-time Olympic medalist Carol Huynh of Hazelton, British Columbia, three-time Olympic medalist Tonya Verbeek of Grimsby, Ontario, Read more
Team Canada came away with three gold medals and five medals overall this past weekend at the Matteo Pellicone in Rome, Italy, a premier international wrestling competition. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Erica Wiebe of Ottawa, Ontario won the gold medal Read more