Minister Qualtrough cheers Team Canada at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

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GATINEAU – Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, has travelled to Paris, France to show support to Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will take place from August 28 to September 8, with an estimated 4,400 athletes from 182 nations. A Team Canada delegation of 126 athletes will compete in 18 …

What Team Canada did at Paris 2024

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Paris – Paris Olympics 2024 was an incredibly successful Olympic Games for Team Canada, who walked away with 27 medals in total — 9 gold, 7 silver, and 11 bronze. The Closing Ceremony for Paris 2024 took place at Stade de France, the site of several of Team Canada’s Olympic medals! The Canadian contingent was led into the ceremony by …

By The Numbers: Team Canada’s Success at Paris 2024

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Paris – When the Olympic Games were last held in Paris in 1924, Canadian athletes won four medals, none of which were gold.  Now a century later, there are almost seven times as many medals on the board! There are all sorts of fun facts to be pulled from Team Canada’s success at the first Olympic Summer Games in eight years …

Andreescu, Fernandez enjoying journey to be part of Team Canada at Paris 2024

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Ottawa – Canada has never won a medal in women’s tennis, and has only ever won one medal – a gold in men’s doubles at Sydney 2000 – but Leylah Annie Fernandez and Bianca Andreescu headline a new generation of Canadian women’s tennis, and look to make history on the clay courts in Paris. Paris 2024 will be the first appearance at an …

Canada captures four medals at World Cup Super Final in Hungary

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Ottawa – Team Canada shined at the Artistic Swimming World Cup circuit Super Final in Budapest, Hungary. The Canadian swimmers won three medals in the first two days of competition, and added to their haul Sunday with a bronze medal in the team free event. With 281.36 points, the Canadian swimmers were edged out by Mexico in second place (335.64) …

Team Canada’s women’s water polo team seeks to make splash at Paris 2024

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Ottawa – At Paris 2024, Team Canada will be competing in women’s water polo for the second straight Olympic Games. Seven of the athletes who were with the team at Tokyo 2020 are back for another Olympic appearance while six athletes will make their Olympic debut. Eleven team members were with Team Canada in the fall of 2023 as they took home the …

Training Camp for Team Canada Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025

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Ottawa – Media are invited to the official announcement of Team Canada competing at the next Invictus Games being held in Vancouver and Whistler, BC, in February 2025. The announcement will take place at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Team Canada’s 56-person contingent includes 22 serving members and 34 Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces who acquired …

Leduc smashes 200m national record, wins 7 World Cup medals at home

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Ottawa – With just over 50 days to go before Team Canada competes at Paris 2024, many Canadian athletes enjoyed a successful weekend as they head into the home stretch of Olympic qualification. The country’s newest sprint star, Audrey Leduc, took down her second national record in the last six weeks, while the consistency of shot putter Sarah Mitton was …

Minister Champagne wraps up NY visit as part of Team Canada mission

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Trip further promotes Canada’s close relationship with largest trading partner New York City – François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, concluded a two-day visit to New York City as part of the Team Canada engagement strategy with the US. Minister Champagne met with Gary Cohn, Vice Chairman of IBM, to discuss ways Canada and the U.S. can work …

Mary Ng to lead Trade Missions to Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea

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Ottawa – Building on the success of the Team Canada Trade Mission to Japan in fall 2023, Mary Ng, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, announced that she will lead Team Canada trade missions to Malaysia and Vietnam from March 24 to 29 and to South Korea from April 21 to 25, 2024. During the trade missions, …