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The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", [2] attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing, and First Nations ...
Calgary Stampede rodeo champions have won their respective events in one of the largest rodeos in the world; the rodeo is the heart of the Calgary Stampede. [1] With a prize of $50,000 to the winner of each major discipline, it offers one of the richest payouts in rodeo competition. [ 2 ]
The first rodeo in Canada was held in 1902 in Raymond, Alberta, when Raymond Knight funded and promoted a rodeo contest for bronc riders and steer ropers called the Raymond Stampede. Knight also coined the rodeo term stampede and built rodeo's first known shotgun-style bucking chute. In 1903, Knight built Canada's first rodeo arena and ...
Cord Jarret McCoy (born August 19, 1980) is an American professional rodeo stock contractor and producer and former professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in saddle bronc riding and bull riding. He is best known as the 2nd-place finisher (along with his brother Jet McCoy) on The Amazing Race 16 .
Tom Three Persons (March 19, 1888 – August 13, 1949) was a Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) rodeo athlete and rancher and a member of the Kainai Nation (Blood). Best known for winning the saddle bronc competition at the inaugural Calgary Stampede in 1912. An Indigenous athlete, he was the only Canadian to win a championship at this historic ...
The Calgary Stampede Guy Weadick Award, created in 1969, was named after him. [2] He was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in the Builder category on July 12, 1982. [ 3 ] He was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1976.
It annually hosts the rodeo, the chuckwagon races and the evening grandstand show portions of the Calgary Stampede. Thoroughbred racing on the half-mile track here ended in 2008, making the annual chuckwagon races during Stampede Week the only event that now uses the track. [1] In June 2022, 3 Stampede Grandstand was renamed GMC Stadium. [2]
The first Stampede drew a large crowd, with participants including Raymond Knight, DeLoss Lund, Ed Corless, Dick Kinsey, Frank Faulkner, Jim Austin, and Steve Austin. Knight is considered a pioneer of rodeo in Canada, having coined the terms "stampede" and "stampeding," which are now widely used to refer to rodeo events.