Commonwealth Sport Canada

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Only a world record could deny Penny Oleksiak, who illustrated that she is not only Canadian swimming’s future and its present by winning the nation’s first Olympic silver medal in women’s 100-metre butterfly on Sunday.

Cruising through the course and never losing his leader position in the last two disciplines, Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt secured the first-ever men’s elite title at the 2016 Montreal ITU Triathlon World Cup. 

The team of Sandrine Mainville, Chantal Van Landeghem, Taylor Ruck andPenny Oleksiak – all first time Olympians – delivered for Team Canada at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on Saturday.

53% of 2014 Commonwealth Games Team on 2016 Canadian Olympic Team

Klagenfurt, Austria, July 31, 2016 – Just a week before Canada’s Ben Saxton (Calgary, AB) and Chaim Schalk (Red Deer, AB) make their Olympic debut on the sands of Copacabana, they picked up a FIVB World Tour bronze Sunday after a three-set win over Bartosz Losiak and Michal Bryl of Poland at the US$800,000 A1 Major Klagenfurt.

 In exactly three months, and for the first time, sports leaders and stakeholders from across Canada and the Commonwealth’s 71 nations and territories will come together for the inaugural Commonwealth Sports Summit.

July 02, 2016 : For the second year in a row, Canada’s Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont. and Heather Bansley of Waterdown, Ont. snagged a silver at the Porec Major in Croatia.  

(Ottawa, ON – July 1, 2016) Emily Batty of Brooklin, Ontario, took Canada’s first medal of the 2016 Mountain Bike World Championships on Saturday in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic

 Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC) is pleased to announce recent additions to its family:

Andre De Grasse was the fastest man in Oslo, after winning the men’s 100m at the Diamond League event in Norway on Thursday.