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Page finishes 14th in big air event
Halifax, NS (September 1, 2010). Falmouth’s Jeremy Page finished his first Junior World Snowboard Championships yesterday with a 14th place finish in Big Air. Page was named to team Canada earlier this summer and traveled to Wanaka, New Zealand in mid-August to complete in the event. Jeremy was the only Canadian male to compete in all three freestyle snowboard disciplines – Halfpipe, Slopestyle, and Big Air. After a disappointing finish in halfpipe, Jeremy trained hard this past week preparing for Big Air, an event he has had great success at over the past year. He finished 14th out of 24 top athletes his age (under 20) from 12 different countries and was the only Canadian male to compete in the event. Page will return from his three...
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Surette earns spot on national sailing team
Allison Surette of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and Coast sailing programs finished second at the Canadian Optimist Class Championships on the weekend in Hamilton, Ont.
The second-place finish qualified Surette for the Canadian team to compete in the 2011 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand.
Max Flinn of the Chester Yacht Club was fourth and Jeremy Fraser of RNSYS ninth. Both are also Coast members.
More than 85 competitors took part in the competition.
(www.thechronicleherald.ca)
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Catharine Pendrel races to victory, overall mountain bike World Cup title
WINDHAM, N.Y. (CP) — Canada’s Catharine Pendrel capped her mountain bike World Cup campaign in stunning fashion Saturday, racing to victory in the final round to capture the overall title.
The cyclist from Kamloops, B.C., became the third Canadian woman to achieve the lofty feat, following in the footsteps of Marie-Helene Premont, who won the World Cup title in 2008, and Alison Sydor, who won it multiple times in the 1990s.
Premont raced to silver Saturday, while American Georgia Gould finished third.
"This is amazing, to win my second World Cup of the season and the World Cup title, all a week before the world championships take place in Canada (in Mont-Saint-Anne, Que.)," Premont said.
"To win a World Cup race is always special, but to be...
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McCoombs leads the way
Jason McCoombs nabbed two more gold medals Saturday at the national sprint canoe-kayak championships in Regina, leading a contingent of paddlers from Nova Scotia that won 15 finals on the last day of competition.
McCoombs, a member of the Banook Canoe Club in Dartmouth, was first across the line in the 500- and 1,000-metre solo canoe events for juvenile men.
The 17-year-old, who was a midget-aged competitor last year when he represented Canada at the world junior championships in Russia, won three golds Friday.
He shared the spotlight with Bedford veteran Richard Dalton, the 2004 Olympian and three-time world medallist who secured his seventh Canadian C-1 200 crown after being reunited with an old friend Saturday.
Dalton, fresh off a C-1 200 bronze...
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Plea for sport funding in N.B. grows stronger
For the second time in a week, the provincial government is hearing calls for increased funding for amateur sport.
A report authored by Evan MacInnis, the New Brunswick athletes services manager for Canadian Sport Atlantic, is requesting annual provincial Canada Games funding of $1.25 million. The document, entitled Planning for Future Success: an analysis of New Brunswick's Sport performance, was released Tuesday.
Of that annual total outlined, $750,000 would create a funding program for an athlete development path, $450,000 would design a coaching support program and $50,000 would be used to form an athlete development technical committee.
"These recommendations were created with the long-term goal of increasing the likelihood of New Brunswick athletes...
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Feschuk, Tingley named athletes of the month
Halifax swimmer Olivia Feschuk is the Cleve’s Source for Sports/New Balance female individual athlete of the month for July.
Feschuk, 14, earned the distinction for her success at the Canadian Age Group National Swimming Championships held in Winnipeg.
She placed first in the 100m butterfly, 1,500m freestyle, 400m individual medley, 200m butterfly and the 800m freestyle. She also placed second in the 200m individual medley and the 400m freestyle and third in the 200m breaststroke.
Feschuk went on to compete at the senior nationals in Victoria. She placed 21st in the 400m individual medley, 35th in the 200m butterfly and 41st in the 200m individual medley.
Halifax’s Paul Tingley is the top male athlete. He sailed to a fourth-place finish in...
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Moyse leads Canada to 40-10 rugby romp
GUILDFORD (CP) — Olympic bobsled champion Heather Moyse scored three tries as Canada improved to 2-0 at the Women’s Rugby World Cup on Tuesday, defeating Sweden 40-10.
Moyse, a winger from Summerside, P.E.I., who won gold earlier this year in Whistler, led the 2006 tournament in try-scoring and has already collected four in two games in 2010.
The fourth-seeded Canadian women opened the 12-team tournament last Friday with a 37-10 win over ninth-seeded Scotland.
The third-seeded French, who needed a try with 12 minutes remaining to edge Sweden 15-9 in its opener, defeated Scotland 17-7 Tuesday.
In Pool A play Tuesday, South Africa defeated Wales 15-10 for its first ever win at the tournament.
Dalton captures bronze at worlds
Bedford’s Richard Dalton capped the world canoe and kayak championships with a bronze medal Sunday in Poznan, Poland.
The 30-year-old Dalton took bronze in the C-1 200 as part of a four-medal day for Canada.
The top six in the race all finished within a second. Ivan Shtyl of Russia won in 39.161 with Thomas Simart of France second in 39.729 and Dalton third in 39.953.
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Que., won gold in the C-1 200 and C-2 500 with Mallorie Nicholson of Oakville, Ont.
Vincent-Lapointe had a 48.188 in the victory with Li Tianian of China second in 48.992 and Maria Kazakova of Russia third in 51.724. Lapointe and Nicholson dominated the C-2 500 in 2:03.622.
Adam Van Koeverden of Oakville took the bronze in the K-1...
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Walker to fight at world women's boxing event
Lower Sackville’s Stephanie Walker will be part of Canada’s seven-member team for the upcoming world women’s boxing championships in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Preliminary competition begins Sept. 9 with the championship matches on Sept. 18.
Walker will challenge at 60 kg. She earned the spot by winning the 2010 Canadian championship in her weight class in Quebec and later defended it in a second-chance event in Halifax.
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Field Hockey Canada announces teams for Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games
OTTAWA, August 17, 2010 – Field Hockey Canada and Commonwealth Games Canada today announced the 32 athletes who will represent Canada at the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India this October.
The field hockey competition is traditionally strong at the Commonwealth Games. Seven of the ten men’s teams that qualified for Delhi also competed at this year’s World Cup, while five of the women’s teams will be competing at the World Cup in Argentina in early September.
The Canadian men’s team, which has climbed into the top ten in the recently released world rankings, will be led by two-time Olympians Ken Pereira (Unionville, ON) and Rob Short (Tsawwassen, BC), both of whom are heading into their fourth Commonwealth Games....
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Canadian Swim Team for Delhi Commonwealth Games Announced
IRVINE, California (August 21, 2010) – Following a successful Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California, Swimming Canada is pleased to announce the twenty-seven strong swimmers nominated to represent Canada at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
The Canadian squad was selected based on performances at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships and the 2010 IPC World Para-Swimming Championships.
“Our swimmers have demonstrated great Canadian pride over the past weeks,” said CEO and National Coach for Swimming Canada, Pierre Lafontaine. “We have had strong medal performances at the Pan Pacs and the IPC Worlds, while also seeing many of our swimmers are knocking on doors, to make that extra step onto the...
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