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Athletes enter the Games representing each of their respective 13 provinces or territories. The first Games were held as part of Canada's Centennial Year Celebrations in 1967. Ontario and Quebec remain the only two provinces to win the Canada Winter Games thus far, with British Columbia and Alberta constantly secured in the third and fourth ...
She is the only Canadian Olympian to win five medals in a single Olympic Games and the first female speed skater to win five medals in a single Games at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. [1] She was a world record holder in the 3000 m until March 2019, when her time was beaten by Martina Sáblíková . [ 2 ]
The second competition weekend of the 2024–25 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, Ching, from Friday, 29 November, until Sunday, 1 December 2024. Medal summary
Speed skating at the 2011 Canada Winter Games was held at the permanent Canada Games Oval in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [ 1 ] The events were held during the first week between February 12 and 16, 2011.
The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included speed skating, but the first official short track speed skating events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. [1] Before 1992, short track speed skating events were held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. At those games, events for both men and ...
There were seven long-track speed skating events at the 2007 Canada Winter Games. All long-track events took place at F. H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse, Yukon, [1] from 24 to 28 February 2007. [2] For the short-track events see short track speed skating at the 2007 Canada Winter Games.
On the programme for the 2022 World Games there were four roller sports disciplines: Artistic, Inline hockey, Speed Skating Road and Speed Skating track. Roller sports is the only sport on the World Games programme represented in three clusters. Speed Skating belongs to "Trend Sports", Artistic to "Artistic Sports" and Inline Hockey to "Ball ...
In January 2022, Weidemann was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team [7] [8] [9] She won Canada's first medal of the games, a bronze, in the 3000 metres event. [10] This was the first medal for Canadian female speed skaters since the 2010 Winter Olympics when Kristina Groves won bronze in the same distance. [11]