Team Homan accomplished two missions: successfully defending their world title and qualifying Canada for Milano Cortina 2026 in women’s curling.

Mikaël Kingsbury won his fourth straight world title in dual moguls while Sarah Mitton became a back-to-back world indoor champion in shot put. There was also a world record set by race walker Evan Dunfee and Liam Brearley earned a historic world title in snowboard slopestyle.

Here are the highlights behind the headlines.

Curling: Team Homan wins second straight world title

Team Canada successfully defended gold at the World Women’s Curling Championship, earning a 7-3 victory over Switzerland in the final. With back-to-back world titles, Canada is the top-ranked qualifier for next year’s women’s Olympic tournament.

READ: Canada wins world women’s curling championship, secures spot for Milano Cortina 2026

In a game that was a repeat of last year’s final, Team Homan distanced themselves from their opponent with a steal of two points in the eighth end to go up 6-3. Another stolen point in the ninth end led to handshakes as the Swiss conceded.

Team Homan—skip Rachel Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, and alternate Rachelle Browne—are the first Canadian team to win two consecutive women’s world titles since Sandra Schmirler‘s team in 1993 and 1994.

To get to the gold medal game, Team Homan had to go through a qualification game to advance to the semifinals. They dispatched Scotland 10-4 in eight ends after putting up four points in the second end and three more points in the fourth end to blow it open early. They then defeated South Korea 6-5 in an extra end. Those had been the only two teams to defeat Canada during the round robin.

Athletics: Mitton defends world indoor shot put title, world record for Dunfee

Sarah Mitton retained her women’s shot put gold medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China on Friday. On her final attempt, the 28-year-old threw 20.48 metres, the third-farthest mark of her career behind the Canadian record 20.68m she has achieved both indoors and outdoors.

Mitton’s second and fourth throws, measuring 20.36m and 20.15m, would have been enough for her to win the indoor world title for the second straight year. Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands (20.07m) took silver ahead of bronze medallist Chase Jackson (20.06m) of the United States.

“I’m really happy with how it turned out today,” said Mitton, who has modified her throwing technique in the hopes of getting even more distance. “There’s really nothing I can do to stop them from throwing far. And honestly, today was really fun, because everybody threw well. We had three girls over 20 metres, multiple 20-metre throws. So that makes it better—when you win when everyone’s on top of their game.

“I try not to focus too much on what they’re doing. What works for me is focusing on the circle; showing little girls out there what we can do is a big part of me stepping into my role model era. Five years ago, I never thought I’d be here.”

Meanwhile, at the World Athletics Race Walking Gold meeting in Dudince, Slovakia, Evan Dunfee broke the world record in the men’s 35km race walk on Saturday. The 34-year Canadian clocked 2:21:40 to knock seven seconds off the previous mark set in October.

Dunfee improved on his personal best time in the event by more than three minutes. The 35km race walk is not on the Olympic program, but is included at the World Athletics Championships, where it replaced the 50km race walk, the event in which Dunfee won Olympic bronze at Tokyo 2020.

Freestyle Skiing: Kingsbury wins ninth career world title

On the first weekend of the 2025 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Engadin, Switzerland, Mikaël Kingsbury took his fourth straight gold medal in dual moguls. It is his ninth career world title and 15th career medal at the world championships. It followed his silver medal in moguls two days earlier.

READ : Kingsbury wins 4th straight world title in dual moguls, leads 3-medal day for Canada at freestyle ski worlds

It was the third medal for Canada on Friday at the worlds. In women’s ski cross, Courtney Hoffos won her first career world championship medal, finishing second in the women’s big final. Megan Oldham won her fourth career world championship medal, taking bronze in women’s ski slopestyle.

Snowboard: Brearley wins historic world title

Liam Brearley put down a clean second run at the 2025 FIS Snowboard World Championships to win gold in men’s snowboard slopestyle on Friday. The 22-year-old is Canada’s first ever world champion in the event. Teammate Cameron Spalding, this year’s Crystal Globe winner, finished sixth in the final.

READ: Liam Brearley becomes Canada’s first men’s snowboard slopestyle world champion

Paris 2024 marked a significant moment for gender equity in the Olympic movement. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, an equal number of quota spots were available for men and women, making them the first Games to achieve gender parity.

As we celebrate progress in gender equity, it is important to acknowledge the tireless work that it has taken to get to this point, and some significant pushback that women’s sport has encountered along the way. 

And the work is far from over. Women remain underrepresented in many other areas of the Games, including but not limited to, coaches, officials, and media. The Olympic Winter Games have yet to achieve gender parity for athletes, though Milano Cortina 2026 is set to be the most gender-balanced Games yet with 47 per cent of quota spots allocated to women.

In the spirit of remembering the efforts of the past as we continue to push towards the future, below is a list acknowledging the Olympic sports for which there was a gender gap in the inclusion of women’s competition versus men’s. 

Paris 1900: Only men competed at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Four years later, at Paris 1900, 22 women competed, compared to 975 men. There were women’s events in tennis and golf, and women competed alongside men in croquet and sailing.

St. Louis 1904: Women’s archery debuts at the Games. Men’s archery had debuted four years earlier, at Paris 1900.

Stockholm 1912: Women’s swimming makes its Olympic debut, although women are only allowed to compete in two events, versus the seven available for men, who had been competing in Olympic swimming since 1896, marking a 16 year gender gap. Swimming was the first “major” Olympic sport to include women. Stockholm 1912 also marked the debut of women’s diving, which had been open to men for eight years, since St. Louis 1904.

Paris 1924: Women’s fencing debuts at the Olympic Games, 28 years after men’s fencing. At this time, women only had one event available to them, while men had six. 

Amsterdam 1928: Women’s athletics and artistic gymnastics make their Olympic debuts. Men’s competition for both sports had existed since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, marking a gender gap of 32 years. 

There were only five women’s athletics events available for women, compared to the 22 available for men. There was only one women’s artistic gymnastics team event, while men had a team event as well as six individual events.

One of the women’s athletics events at Amsterdam 1928 was the 800m. In direct contradiction to what transpired on the track, media reported afterwards that several women collapsed and others could not finish the 800m race. This account gained traction despite photographic and video evidence showing that all nine women completed the race and that a couple of them laid down on the track after a world-record effort (as was common for male athletes to do). The IOC and IAAF proceeded to bar women from competing in races longer than 200m for over 30 years under the patronising guise of “protecting” women from themselves. 

London 1948: Women’s kayaking debuts at the Olympic Games. Only one event is available to women, while men had the opportunity to compete in two kayak events as well as two canoe events (which women would wait seven more decades to compete in, more on that below). Men’s paddling had been part of the Olympic program since 1936, marking a gender gap of 12 years.

Oslo 1952: Women’s cross-country skiing debuts at the Olympic Games. Men had competed in cross-country skiing since the inaugural Olympic Winter Games in 1924, marking a gender gap of 28 years.

Helsinki 1952: Women are allowed to compete in Olympic equestrian events for the first time, 52 years after men began competing in equestrian at Paris 1900. At these Games, women were limited to competing only in dressage. Four years later, they would be allowed to compete in jumping and then finally eventing at Tokyo 1964.

Squaw Valley 1960: Women’s speed skating makes its official Olympic debut, 36 years after men’s speed skating was on the program of the first Olympic Winter Games. 

Mexico City 1968: Women compete in Olympic shooting for the first time, while men had been competing in it since the first modern Olympic Games 72 years earlier.  Starting at Mexico City 1968, women competed directly against men. Separate women’s shooting events were not included until 1984.

Montreal 1976: Women’s rowing debuts at the Olympic Games 76 years after men’s rowing was first included. Women’s basketball debuts 40 years after men’s basketball.

Moscow 1980: Women’s field hockey makes its Olympic debut, marking a gender gap of 72 years after men’s field hockey was part of the program.

Los Angeles 1984: LA 1984 features the first Olympic women’s marathon. The men’s marathon had been contested since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, marking a gender gap of 88 years. Women’s road cycling also made its Olympic debut 88 years after the men’s competition.

The 1984 Olympic Games were also when the first two women-only sports were included on the Olympic programme—rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized (now artistic) swimming.

Seoul 1988: Women’s track cycling debuts at the Olympic Games. Only one event was available to women versus the five available for men. Track cycling for men was included in 1896, marking a 92-year gender gap. Seoul 1988 also marks the debut of separate sailing events for women.

Albertville 1992: Women’s biathlon makes its Olympic debut 32 years after the inclusion of men’s biathlon.

Barcelona 1992: Women’s judo debuts at the Olympic Games 28 years after men’s competition.

Atlanta 1996: Women’s soccer makes its Olympic debut 96 years after men’s soccer.

Nagano 1998: Women’s hockey debuts 78 years after men’s hockey became an Olympic sport during the summer Games at Antwerp 1920. Women’s curling debuts as the sport returns to the Olympic programme for the first time since 1924 (where there had only been a men’s event). 

Sydney 2000: Women’s weightlifting makes its debut at the Olympic Games, 104 years after men’s weightlifting, which was one of the original sports of the modern Olympic Games. Women’s water polo made its Olympic debut a century after the men’s competition. Women’s modern pentathlon made its Olympic debut 88 years after the men’s sport.

Salt Lake City 2002: Women’s bobsleigh is contested at the Olympic Games for the first time, 78 years after men competed in the sport at the first Olympic Winter Games.

Athens 2004: Women’s wrestling makes its Olympic debut. Men’s wrestling was one of the sports included in the first edition of the modern Olympic Games, making for a gender gap of 108 years.

London 2012: Women’s boxing makes its Olympic debut. Men first competed in Olympic boxing in 1904, making for a 108-year gender gap. Boxing was the last summer Olympic sport that was for men only, so London 2012 marked the first Games where women competed in every sport on the summer Olympic programme.

Sochi 2014: Women’s ski jumping makes its Olympic debut, 90 years after the men’s edition of the sport.

Tokyo 2020: Women’s canoe events debut at the Olympic Games, 84 years after men were given the opportunity to compete in canoe events. 

READ: Historic Olympic achievements by Team Canada women

A young Canadian luge team gave their hometown fans in Whistler a thrill with their podium performance at the FIL World Championships. The Canadian Ice Maples captured four gold medals at the latest stop on the ISU Short Track World Tour. Plus, the Canadian ski cross team reached a major milestone on the FIS World Cup circuit, solidifying the country as the best ever in the discipline.

But that’s not all. Read on for all the highlights you might have missed.

Luge: Team Canada wins world championship relay bronze at home

With family and friends cheering them on, Team Canada claimed the bronze medal in the team relay at the FIL Luge World Championships in Whistler, British Columbia.

Racing on their home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre, the young Canadian team of Embyr-Lee Susko (women’s singles), Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski (men’s doubles), Theo Downey (men’s singles), and Beattie Podulsky and Kailey Allan (women’s doubles) stopped the clock in 2:51.641. The fourth team down the track, they watched as the next three teams were unable to beat their time, ensuring they would have a spot on the podium. In the end, the highly favoured Germans took the gold medal in 2:50.361, finishing 0.131 ahead of Austria.

READ: Talented trio of luge teammates and best friends slide towards world championships at home 

READ : Team Canada wins bronze medal in team relay at luge worlds

This is Canada’s fifth world championship medal all time in the team relay, but the first for this new generation of Canadian lugers, who are all under the age of 23. It is Canada’s first world championship medal in the team relay since the event incorporated a women’s doubles sled last year. Women’s doubles luge will make its Olympic debut next year.

Susko had enjoyed a breakout moment in the women’s singles event the day before. The 19-year-old finished fourth, clocking 1:17.287 for her two runs, putting her just 0.038 back of a podium position and just 0.081 back of the winner, Germany’s Julia Taubitz. Susko posted the third-fastest time in the second run.

Podulsky and Allan were also in the top-10 of the women’s doubles event, finishing eighth.

Short Track Speed Skating: Four gold medals for Canada

Four Canadians won gold medals as the ISU Short Track World Tour resumed with its fifth stop in Tilburg, Netherlands.

On Saturday, William Dandjinou continued his dominance of the men’s 1500m, earning his fourth victory of the season in the event. Steven Dubois and Jordan Pierre-Gilles delivered a 1-2 finish for Canada in the men’s 500m, the fourth time this season that two Canadians have shared the podium in the event.

READ : Courtney Sarault and Florence Brunelle win gold in Tilburg

On Sunday, Florence Brunelle earned her first career individual victory on the international circuit, winning the women’s 500m. The 21-year-old is a two-time world junior champion in the distance and had already won two World Tour silver medals earlier this season.

Courtney Sarault got the victory in the women’s 1500m. She had been overtaken for the lead with two laps remaining, but after crossing the finish line, Belgium’s Hanne Desmet was penalized for contact with Italian Arianna Fontana earlier in the race, elevating Sarault to the gold medal.

Heading into the final World Tour stop of the season in Milan, which will also serve as the Olympic test event, the Canadian Ice Maples sit comfortably atop the ISU Team Crystal Globe rankings. Dandjinou has a near-insurmountable lead in the men’s Crystal Globe standings of 282 points over Dutch skater Jens van ‘T Wout with Dubois in third.

Ski Cross: Thompson earns Canada’s 100th World Cup win

Marielle Thompson has taken over the lead in the women’s ski cross Crystal Globe standings after earning her third straight FIS World Cup victory on Saturday in Val Di Fassa, Italy.

She shared the podium with teammate Courtney Hoffos, who finished third for her first World Cup podium of the season, marking a high mark in her comeback after missing all of 2023-24 while recovering from a knee injury. India Sherret finished fourth in the big final. France’s Marielle Berger Sabbatel broke up the Canadian podium sweep by finishing second.

READ : Ski Cross: Thompson, Howden golden in Val di Fassa

On Sunday, Reece Howden earned his third victory of the season in the men’s event. Abby McEwen was the only Canadian woman in the second women’s big final of the weekend, placing fourth.

Canada is the most successful country in the history of ski cross. Thompson’s win marked a major milestone as Canada’s 100th World Cup victory all time in ski cross.

Big Air: Big wins for Oldham and Bouchard in Aspen

Megan Oldham earned her first FIS World Cup win since December 2022 as she was victorious in Aspen on Thursday. Oldham scored 183.75 for her first two runs in the women’s ski big air final, notching 92.00 and 91.75 points for each. She finished 8.5 points clear of runner-up, Flora Tabanelli of Italy.

Eli Bouchard got his career World Cup podium and victory all at once in men’s snowboard big air. The 17-year-old scored 189.00 for his best two runs of the final, finishing 4.5 points ahead of Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa, the reigning world champion. Two other Canadians made it to the final, with Mark McMorris finishing sixth and Liam Brearley right behind in seventh.

Noah Porter MacLennan was the top Canadian in men’s ski big air, finishing sixth.

Ski Jumping: Loutitt third at history-making event in Lake Placid

For the first time ever, a women’s FIS World Cup ski jumping event was held in the United States. Lake Placid, which has twice hosted the Olympic Winter Games, was the site of the history-making competition. Alexandria Loutitt finished third in Friday’s large hill event. It is her second podium of the season and 11th of her career. She followed up with a 10th-place finish on Saturday.

Moguls: Another podium for Schwinghammer, Kingsbury bounces back

Maïa Schwinghammer reached the FIS World Cup podium for a second straight week, finishing third in women’s moguls in Deer Valley, Utah. She followed up with an eighth-place performance in dual moguls.

Meanwhile, after a very uncharacteristic fall in the first round of the men’s moguls final, Mikaël Kingsbury bounced back to take second place in dual moguls on Sunday. Julien Viel had come up just short of the podium in men’s moguls, finishing fourth.

Aerials: Miha Fontaine reaches first final of season

Miha Fontaine was the top Canadian at the FIS World Cup for aerials, also in Deer Valley, finishing sixth in the men’s event. He was the only member of the Canadian team to advance to either the men’s or women’s finals. The 21-year-old advanced to his first final of the season despite challenging weather conditions.

Bobsleigh: Cynthia Appiah slides to season best result

Cynthia Appiah posted her best result of the season on Saturday, placing sixth in women’s monobob at the IBSF World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway. It was her fifth time inside the top 10 this season. Appiah’s two-run time of 1:49.38 was just 0.24 slower than that of the winner, Bree Walker of Australia.

In the two-woman event, Melissa Lotholz and Leah Walkeden were the top Canadian crew, finishing eighth. Appiah and Skylar Sieben finished 11th.

Tennis: Shapovalov wins biggest title of career

Denis Shapovalov defeated three top-10 opponents en route to lifting the trophy at the Dallas Open, an ATP 500 tournament. He took down Taylor Fritz (Round of 16), Tommy Paul (semifinals), and Casper Ruud (final) to earn the biggest title of his career after two years of struggling with injuries and form. Shapovalov defeated World No. 5 Ruud in straight sets, 7-6(5), 6-3 for his third career singles title.

As a result of his run, Shapovalov has risen 22 spots to No. 32 in the ATP singles ranking, his highest position since September 2023.

Athletics: Mitton makes world’s biggest indoor throw in more than a decade

Sarah Mitton matched her Canadian women’s shot put record with a throw on 20.68m at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold event on Friday in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is the best indoor women’s shot put throw in the world since 2013. Mitton broke the North American indoor record to win a stacked competition in which three women threw beyond 20 metres for the first time indoors since the 1991 World Indoor Championships.

Comprised of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, and Brendon Rodney, this quartet captured gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics last summer.

After clocking the slowest qualifying time among the eight teams in the final (38.39 seconds), the Canadian sprinters, starting from the outermost lane 9, delivered their best time of the season (37.50 seconds) to win the race.

“I’ve never seen these three guys run like that,” said De Grasse at the time, after he and his teammates failed to reach their individual finals in Paris. “They ran the race of their lives.”

READ: Canada wins gold for third straight Olympic medal in men’s 4x100m relay

This Olympic title marked the third consecutive podium finish for the Canadian men’s relay team following bronze medals in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

The gold also earned De Grasse his seventh Olympic medal, tying swimmer Penny Oleksiak as Canada’s most decorated Olympian.

Looking ahead, the Canadian relay team is gearing up for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, where they aim to replicate their Paris performance.

“We’ll definitely have a target on our backs,” said Rodney. “We just need to make sure we’re at our best. It’s always hard to stay motivated after the Olympics, but the motivation lies in the fact that you’re now the team everyone’s chasing.”

His crowning achievement of the year was undoubtedly his gold medal in the hammer throw at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The 22-year-old made history by becoming the first Canadian Olympic champion in the hammer throw and the first Canadian medalist in the event since the 1912 Stockholm Games.

“I gave 150% to Paris, right?” said Katzberg. “I didn’t have much attention for anything else. And then, having that little moment to show all the work you’ve done—and everything goes well, everything comes together at the right time—it was so emotional. It was an incredibly special moment.”

READ: Ethan Katzberg wins gold in men’s hammer throw

In the Olympic final, the athlete from Nanaimo, British Columbia, opened with a throw of 84.12m, just shy of his personal best. That mark secured him the Olympic title within minutes, as no other competitor managed to break the 80-meter mark.

Two days later, fellow Canadian Camryn Rogers matched his feat, winning gold in the women’s hammer throw.

“It puts a smile on my face,” Katzberg explained. “Few people or athletes, I think, realize they can have an impact on new generations, no matter the scale. It’s just an incredible feeling.”

At the end of the Games, Katzberg was chosen to carry the Canadian flag during the closing ceremony, alongside swimmer Summer McIntosh, who was named Female Athlete of the Year by The Canadian Press.

READ: Summer McIntosh earns 2024 CP Female Athlete of the Year honour

So we asked some of Canada’s top winter athletes what their favourite moment was from Paris 2024.

Many of Team Canada’s winter athletes were as stunned as the rest of us by the “Summer of Summer,” as well as Canada’s emergence as a hammer throwing powerhouse. But some of these answers might also surprise you!

Cassie Sharpe – Freestyle Skiing

“Oh my gosh, obviously because it was the first time it was in the Olympics, but Phil Wizard winning the breakdancing was so much fun and so sick. Also the women’s [beach] volleyball– they were amazing.”

Piper Gilles – Figure Skating

“I don’t know if it’s necessarily a moment, but for me the sport that I thought was so interesting was surfing…because we’re not in a sport that is so driven by Mother Nature. We have an ice surface, it’s prepared, we’re in a building—not much can go wrong other than the ice fluctuation, and the timing between our partners, and just skating in general. Athletes like that, there’s a whole lot that’s not in their control. The wave is in the control of Mother Nature, and they have to battle it out.  

It wasn’t even a sport I went looking for. I just said, ‘Let’s watch the Olympics!’ and it came on and I was so fascinated. I watched hours of the rounds because I was just like, ‘How do they mentally prepare for this?!’”

Cynthia Appiah – Bobsleigh

“I’m not even going to tell you that I’m not biased—I am 100% super biased to the throws. Watching Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers win the gold medals in the hammer was the peak highlight of my Olympic Games viewing experience. It was just like, ‘Finally, the throwers are the popular kids at the Olympics!’ Watching the men’s 4x100m was honestly such a great moment as well. But watching the best throws was just….chef’s kiss.”

Antoine Cyr – Cross-Country Skiing

“I got to watch a lot of the Olympics, because I was on a training camp in Utah, and so in between all of the training, we were just watching the Olympics. 

I have a couple of favorite moments. The coach we had with us in Utah is a strength coach, and he coaches some of the track and field athletes. One of his athletes—Thomas Fafard—made it to the [5000m] final, and it was super exciting for him to be in the final. 

I could tell that [Fafard] maybe didn’t run the race that he wanted to run, and it was one of my favorite moments, because maybe it wasn’t his PB, but I think he had everything to be proud of in that race. And I could put myself in that position. 

I know how hard it is to find your A game at the Olympics. The Olympics are so different from whatever you see in the normal season. The food, the transportation, the accommodation, it’s all different. So, I was really impressed by his performance. He didn’t win a medal or anything, but I could put myself in that spot, and I could see how much that race was going to mean to him, after you realize all of the hard work you put in. 

And then there were a couple athletes from my area performing. There was Derek [Gee] in cycling. There was also Sophia Jensen, who did the [sprint] canoe. I grew up racing bikes with Lois Betteridge, who’s a [slalom] paddler. So it’s cool to see all of them perform. 

And it’s funny too, because most of them used to do cross-country skiing!”

Abigail Strate – Ski Jumping

“I think the easy answer is Summer [McIntosh] because she was just absolutely dominating those events. Every time I woke up and went to my phone, I was like, ‘Oh, there’s another one. There’s another one.’

I was also super proud of our hammer throwers, because I think it’s super cool for Canada. They’re calling us a hammer throwing nation—that is awesome.”

Ivanie Blondin – Long Track Speed Skating

“Evan Dunfee has always been one of my favourites. He’s such a superstar and I just love his personality and how down to earth he is; he’s such an incredible human being and I really look up to him. 

I was pretty devastated to see the results he had in his race [5th place, just five seconds off the podium in the 20km race walk], but I know that he put everything into that race, and he did everything that he could, so I was still incredibly proud of him. I messaged him after the race and he actually responded a couple hours later.” 

Hallie Clarke – Skeleton

“I’m going to say Summer. Summer McIntosh’s performances were super inspiring, especially as another young athlete, seeing how well she deals with all of the pressure and the hype. She looked unfazed, and her interviews were amazing. I was definitely very inspired by her.”

Paul Poirier – Figure Skating

“I think for me, Melissa [Humana-Paredes] and Brandie [Wilkerson] winning a medal was such a big deal, mostly because we know them. They’re Toronto girls. We used to train with them for a long time at the sports centre here in Scarborough. And so they’re athletes that we’ve seen working at it and working at it and working at it for years and years and years and years and years, and they’re people that we know and call friends. So that was just really special, I think because of that relationship. To see them achieve what they set out to achieve was really amazing.”

Cameron Spalding – Snowboard

“Summer McIntosh, seeing her win everything was pretty sick. I mean, that was as dominant as you can get from her. And then watching our hammer throwers win too was pretty awesome.”

Canadian athletes won 27 medals, surpassing the 24 medals won at Tokyo 2020, to make Paris 2024 Team Canada’s second most successful Olympic Summer Games of all time. Nine of those medals were gold, seven were silver, and 11 were bronze. Medals were won by 50 athletes in 15 different sports.

Relive some of the greatest achievements of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games—as remembered by many of those medal-winning athletes—with the Team Canada Rewind series.

Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney, Andre De Grasse

Headed into Paris 2024, Team Canada’s men’s 4x100m relay team almost had the full collection of medals—they just needed that gold…

Philip Kim (Phil Wizard)

Phil Wizard says his path to breaking gold was paved with Parisian pastries…

Camryn Rogers

Apparently an Olympic gold medal weighs about the same as a hammer…

Ethan Katzberg

When the plan is to get a solid first hammer throw in—but then you go full Thor and secure gold…

Summer McIntosh

That first 400m freestyle silver medal left her hungry for gold… so she snagged three of them in the 400m IM, 200m IM, and 200m butterfly…

Christa Deguchi

From missing out on qualifying for Tokyo 2020, to topping the podium at Paris 2024 in the women’s 57kg judo event…

Team Canada Rugby Sevens

When you have to take down the home team in their own stadium to advance… and then you go on to claim silver…

Team Canada Rowing Eight

Coxswain Kristen Kit‘s message to the crew of the women’s eight en route to their silver medal? “Heads in the boat!”

Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray

“It’s a weight off of my shoulders…and onto my neck” was one way Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray looked back on their bronze in men’s 10m synchro diving…

Marco Arop

“I knew the race was going to be fast…I wasn’t expecting it to be that fast.” Marco Arop threw down a huge personal best and new Canadian record to take silver in the men’s 800m…

Maude Charron

A change in weight class couldn’t stop Maude from snagging the women’s 59kg weightlifting silver…

Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson

“It has not sunk in yet that we’ve made history.” Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson are Team Canada’s first ever Olympic medallists in women’s beach volleyball…

Josh Liendo

When you look at your teammate before a race and say: “It’d be pretty cool if we both ended up on the podium.” And then you do—with silver and bronze…

Alysha Newman

Alysha Newman knows that to perform her best, she’s got to be having fun. She had a blast at the Olympic Games—and blasted herself to new heights to take the women’s pole vault bronze medal…

Skylar Park

“Once I knew I had that shot, there was no stopping me.” Skylar Park fought her way onto the women’s 57kg taekwondo podium…

Kylie Masse

Kylie Masse has competed at three Olympic Games and medalled at every one of them. At Paris 2024 she claimed bronze in the women’s 200m backstroke…

Félix Auger-Aliassime and Gaby Dabrowski

The Canadian duo battled back from the brink of exhaustion to the Olympic podium, winning bronze in mixed doubles at the legendary Roland-Garros…

Sophiane Méthot

An Olympic debut, but make it a podium. That’s how Sophiane Méthot flew to bronze in women’s trampoline at Paris 2024…

Katie Vincent and Sloan Mackenzie

The Olympic Games are just like any other regatta… except not. But Katie Vincent and Sloan Mackenzie paddled their way onto the podium in the women’s C-2 500m…

Eleanor Harvey

“When I was a kid, I would look at Olympians and almost view them as superheroes.” Canadian fencer Eleanor Harvey is now one of those superheroes, with a bronze medal to match…

Wyatt Sanford

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Wyatt Sanford spent 15 years working towards his 63.5kg boxing bronze medal.

74% of Team Canada athletes who medalled have received support from the Canadian Olympic Foundation thanks to the generosity of donors across the country.

Despite our best efforts, many Team Canada athletes don’t have all the funding they need, to cover everything from training, coaching, mental health supports, competition costs, or equipment. 

Team Canada’s achievements at Paris 2024 are a testament to the impact of donor support. Donor investment in an athlete’s Olympic journey provides the key resources needed to propel them over the finish line – and inspire our nation.

Congratulations to the entire Canadian Olympic team, including the #Paris2024 medallists who have received support from the COF thanks to donors:

• Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, and Brendon Rodney, men’s 4x100m relay (GOLD), Tokyo 2020 Malaviya Award (2021)

• Camryn Rogers, women’s hammer throw (GOLD), Great to Gold program (2024)

• Ethan Katzberg, men’s hammer throw (GOLD), Great to Gold program (2024)

• Katie Vincent and Sloan MacKenzie, women’s C-2 500m canoe sprint (BRONZE), women’s C-1 200m canoe sprint (GOLD) (Katie), Murphy Family Award (2023)(Katie), Great to Gold program (2024), NextGen athlete (2022) (Sloan)

• Josh Liendo, men’s 100m butterfly (SILVER), NextGen athlete (2018-2022), 2024 Great to Gold program (2024)

• Maude Charron, women’s 59kg weightlifting (SILVER), Tokyo 2020 Malaviya Award (2021), Murphy Family Award (2023)

• Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, women’s beach volleyball (SILVER), Murphy Family Award (2021)(Melissa), Great to Gold program (2024)

• The women’s eight rowing team (Abby Dent, Caileigh Filmer, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Kristen Kit, Maya Meschkuleit, Sydney Payne, Jessica Sevick, Kristina Walker, Avalon Wasteneys) (SILVER), Great to Gold program (2024)

• The women’s rugby sevens team (Olivia Apps, Fancy Bermudez, Alysha Corrigan, Caroline Crossley, Chloe Daniels, Asia Hogan-Rochester, Piper Logan, Carissa Norsten, Taylor Perry, Krissy Scurfield, Florence Symonds, Shalaya Valenzuela, Keyara Wardley, Charity Williams) (SILVER) Great to Gold program (2024)

• Eleanor Harvey, women’s fencing individual foil (BRONZE), Murphy Family Award (2023) and Great to Gold program (2024)

• Felix Auger-Alliasime, tennis mixed doubles with Gabriela Dabrowski (BRONZE), NextGen athlete (2017-2019)

• Kylie Masse, women’s 200m backstroke (BRONZE), Tokyo 2020 Malaviya Award (2021)

• Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens, men’s synchronized 10m platform diving (BRONZE), Bursary Program for Quebec Olympic Athletes (2024) (Nathan), NextGen athlete (2017-2022) (Rylan)

• Skylar Park, women’s 57kg taekwondo (BRONZE), Murphy Family Award (2021,2022) , Great to Gold program (2024)

• Sophiane Methot,women’s trampoline (BRONZE), Great to Gold program (2024)

• Wyatt Sanford, men’s 63.5kg boxing (BRONZE), Great to Gold program (2024)

Every Team Canada Paris 2024 medallist will receive a Team Canada Podium Award of $5,000 per medal earned, funded by the Malaviya Foundation. In addition, they will receive a portion of the Tania Esakin Fund.

Each inductee was nominated by their community, and over 230 public nominations were reviewed by a panel of sport journalists, academics, and athletes. Each inductee has contributed to the Canadian sport community through their innovation, advocacy, or expertise, and made a positive lasting impression on Canadian sport.

Patrick Chan

Patrick Chan, three-time Olympian and the most decorated male figure skater in Canadian history, will be inducted in the Athlete category.

His skills on the blade were the envy of many and he was arguably the first skater able to perform multiple quadruple jumps amidst artistic excellence with an innate musicality. 

That virtuosic combination helped him to win three Olympic medals, 10 national titles, three consecutive ISU World Championship titles (2011, 2012, 2013), three ISU Four Continents Championship titles (2009, 2012, 2016), and two ISU Grand Prix Final titles (2010, 2011). He was Canada’s Athlete of the Year in 2011. 

At the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, Chan snagged two silver medals–one in men’s singles and one in the team event. He added a gold medal in the team event to his collection at PyeongChang 2018.

Chan retired from competition in 2018, but remains an important role model for young Canadian skaters. He has used his experience as a Chinese Canadian to help shape Skate Canada’s Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to make skating more inclusive for all. Chan volunteers with Special Olympics Canada and is an advocate for men’s mental health through Movember Canada.

Angela Chalmers

Two-time Olympian Angela Chalmers will be inducted in the Athlete category.

Chalmers collected numerous accolades throughout her career, claiming the NCAA cross-country championship in 1986, a 3000m silver medal at the 1985 Pan Am Games, and double gold in the 3000m and 1500m at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

Chalmers, a member of the Birdtail Sioux First Nation, was the first Indigenous woman representing Canada to win an Olympic medal, taking bronze in the 3000m at Barcelona 1992. Her historic achievement and dedication to her sport made her a role model for Indigenous youth and girls in sport.

After retirement in 1997, Chalmers has lent her voice to issues of clean sport and dedicated her time to connecting with Indigenous youth who face disproportionate challenges due to the intergenerational trauma of colonialism.

Daniel Nestor

Six-time Olympian Daniel Nestor, who left an indelible mark on Canadian tennis, will be inducted in the Athlete category.

Throughout his storied career, Nestor won 12 Grand Slam titles, including eight in men’s doubles and four in mixed doubles. He was the first player to record 1000 ATP doubles match wins. He was a member of Team Canada’s Davis Cup squad for a record-setting 25 years. Nestor is perhaps best known for delivering Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in tennis, claiming gold in the men’s doubles at Sydney 2000 alongside partner Sébastien Lareau.

Nestor retired from competition in 2018 to focus on his charitable work, which involves organizing tennis events to raise funds for healthcare initiatives. He is now working on his own foundation to support underserved youth through access to tennis.

Vicky Sunohara

Three-time Olympian and stalwart of Canadian women’s hockey, Vicky Sunohara, will be inducted in the Athlete category.

During her 19 years as a member of Team Canada, eight of which she served as Assistant Captain, Sunohara won three Olympic medals. At Nagano 1998, the Canadian women took silver, followed by back-to-back gold medals at Salt Lake City 2002 and Turin 2006. Nagano was the first Olympic Games to have women’s ice hockey on the programme.

A seven-time world champion, Sunohara retired from competition in 2008, but continued to give back to the hockey community as a coach, becoming the University of Toronto’s first-ever full-time head coach of the women’s hockey programme. 

As a Japanese Canadian, Sunohara has worked to make the sport of hockey a more inclusive and diverse space, working with minor ice hockey teams, as well as community initiatives such as KidSport, Hockey4Youth and Youth Assisting Youth.

Debbie Brill

Three-time Olympic high jumper Debbie Brill will be inducted in the Trailblazer category. 

Brill developed her unique reverse jumping technique, which became known as the “Brill Bend,” as a teenager. Similar techniques were developed by other athletes, including American Dick Fosbury’s “Fosbury Flop.”

Brill’s Canadian record of 1.99m still stands, as it has for the last 42 years. She was ranked number one in the world in 1980 when Canada joined the U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, missing the opportunity to compete at the Olympic Games at the height of her success.

Brill has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to gender equity in sport. In 1992, she served as an athlete representative during the successful campaign to remove discriminatory sex-testing from athletics competition.

Since retiring from elite competition in 1988, Brill has continued to set master’s records in the high jump. 

Other inductees in the class of 2024

Alex Nelson will be inducted in the Builder category for his lifelong leadership in Indigenous sport. Nelson co-founded the Aboriginal Sports and Recreation Association of British Columbia, and was a three-time president of the North American Indigenous Games, greatly expanding the reach of the Games, which celebrate both culture and sport.

Dr. Guylaine Demers will also be inducted in the Builder category. As a researcher, teacher, and activist, Demers’ work has impacted real change in the realm of gender equity in sport, as well as combating homophobia and transphobia.

In the Athlete category, Fred Thomas will be recognized for his barrier-breaking career in the era of racial segregation in professional sport. Thomas broke the colour barrier in the Minor League Baseball Eastern League and was the first Black Canadian to play for the Toronto Argonauts.

Paralympic swimmer Kirby Cote will also be inducted in the Athlete category. Cote is a three-time Paralympian, competing in swimming events for athletes with visual impairments. She is a 13-time Paralympic medallist, making her one of Canada’s most decorated Para athletes of all time. She has also advocated on behalf of disabled Canadians for greater accessibility, particularly in sport and recreation spaces.

Paris 2024 Olympians Sarah Mitton, Marco Arop and Alysha Newman all extended their seasons and all three ended up on the podium of track and field’s final hurrah of the year–the Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium. On the tennis court, Team Canada’s Davis Cup squad crushed the group phase of competition to earn a spot in the Final 8. Team Canada triathletes impressed at the World Triathlon Cup in Valencia, Spain, while Mike Woods worked his way to a top-10 finish on home soil at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal.

In cooler (temperature-wise) news, Florence Brunelle and William Dandjinou claimed national titles in short track speed skating, welcoming in the winter competition season.

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Athletics: Mitton ends Diamond League season with a bang

Sarah Mitton won the gold medal in the women’s shot put at the Diamond League Final. After not meeting her goal of reaching the podium at Paris 2024 amid unfortunate weather conditions, Mitton threw to a distance of 20.25m to earn the win. She was joined on the podium by American Chase Jackson (19.90m) and German Yemisi Ogunleye (19.72), who had won Olympic gold this summer.

This Diamond League Final victory also guarantees Mitton a spot at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, to be held in Tokyo, Japan. Mitton is the reigning indoor world champion after taking silver at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.

Also competing in Brussels were Paris 2024 medallists Marco Arop and Alysha Newman. In the men’s 800m, Olympic silver medallist Arop finished third in 1:43.25 to place behind Kenyan Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi (1:42.70) and Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati (1:42.86).

Newman, who took bronze at Paris 2024, snagged bronze once more at the Diamond League Final. She cleared 4.80m to claim her spot on the podium. The gold medal went to Australia’s Olympic champion Nina Kennedy, who cleared 4.88m, with silver going to American Sandi Morris, who also cleared 4.80m, but in fewer attempts than Newman.

Tennis: Team Canada gets ticket to Davis Cup Final 8

The team composed of Denis Shapovalov, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Vasek Pospisil, Alexis Galarneau and Gabriel Diallo — who had made history by winning the Davis Cup in 2022 — dominated their group in the first phase of this year’s Finals. Led by Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime — who didn’t lose any of their singles matches — Team Canada topped Group D in Manchester, England, finishing above Argentina, Great Britain, and Finland.

After disposing of Argentina 2-1, Canada got the opportunity to take a measure of revenge against Finland, who had eliminated them in last year’s quarterfinals. They did so in spectacular fashion, winning all three matches of the tie.

The Canadians booked their ticket to the Final 8 with Shapovalov’s straight sets victory (6-0, 7-5) over Great Britain’s Daniel Evans on Sunday. But that was just the precursor for perhaps the most exciting match of the weekend when Auger-Aliassime defeated US Open semifinalist Jack Draper 7-6 (10-8), 7-5.

READ: Canada beats host Brits at Davis Cup to advance to quarterfinal round

The Davis Cup Final 8 will take place November 19-24 in Malaga, Spain.

Short Track Speed Skating: Brunelle and Dandjinou claim national titles

Canada crowned its top short track speed skaters at the Canadian Short Track Championships in Montreal this weekend.

Florence Brunelle finished first in four of the six women’s races to claim her first national title. On the men’s side, after Steven Dubois started the competition with wins in the first 500m and first 1500m, William Dandjinou came back to win his second straight national title, taking top spot in the second 1000m on Sunday for his third victory of the weekend and first place overall.

Danaé Blais and Kim Boutin rounded out the podium behind Brunelle. Courtney Sarault had been unable to defend her national title after suffering a concussion during training. Joining Dandjinou and Dubois on the men’s podium was Jordan Pierre-Gilles.

READ: Brunelle and Dandjinou crowned national champions in short track

The results from the Canadian Short Track Championships will be used to help select the skaters who will represent Canada internationally for the first half of the season, including on the new ISU Short Track World Tour which begins October 25-27 in Montreal.

Triathlon: Donnelly impresses with top 10 finish at World Triathlon Cup

Liam Donnelly turned heads on Saturday with his personal best eighth-place finish at the World Triathlon Cup in Valencia, Spain. The 25-year-old finished the sprint distance race in a time of 50 minutes and 14 seconds, finishing just nine seconds back of a podium position.

Donnelly had the seventh-fastest time in the five-kilometre run to propel himself into the top 10. Daniel Damian finished not too far behind his countrymate in 14th place. On the women’s side, Team Canada’s Emy Legault placed 11th.

Road Cycling: Woods rides to eighth place finish at Montreal Grand Prix

Ottawa’s Michael Woods placed eighth at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal, two weeks after claiming a stage victory during the third Grand Tour of the year, the Vuelta a España. The Canadian road race champion had made no secret of his desire to win on home soil, but had to settle for matching his career-best result at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal.

There is one more major event on the horizon for Canada’s top road cyclists. The UCI Road World Championships will take place September 21-29 in Zurich, Switzerland.