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The Brandon Community Sportsplex is a multipurpose recreation facility located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. The Sportsplex was built by the City of Brandon in the mid 1970s as a venue for the 1979 Canada Winter Games. It features an indoor ice hockey arena, a 50 metre swimming pool, racquetball courts, and track and field ...
The earliest skating association in Canada was the Amateur Skating Association of Canada, formed by Louis Rubenstein of Montreal's Victoria Skating Club in 1888 for both speed and figure skating. [2] In 1914, the Figure Skating Department of Canada, formed as a section of the Amateur Skating Association of Canada stemming from the recognition ...
Westman Speed Skating, Brandon, Manitoba [1] Achievements and titles; Olympic finals: 2010: Kyle Parrott (born 13 September 1985) is a Canadian long track speed skater.
The Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a Canadian museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, ... Speed skating 1984 Robina (Higgins) Haight: Athlete Athletics 1989
Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short-track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.
Long track speed skating, Thialf, 2008. The standard rink for long track is 400 meters long, [2] but tracks of 200, 250 and 333 1 ⁄ 3 meters are used occasionally. It is one of two Olympic forms of the sport and the one with the longer history.
Speed Skating Canada (SSC) is the governing body for competitive long track and short track speed skating in Canada. It was founded in 1887, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] five years before the International Skating Union [ 6 ] of which SSC later became a member in 1894.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Sport; Sport: Speed skating: Gayle Gordon (born 27 August 1955) is a Canadian speed skater.