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Team Canada Heads To Seoul For The 2012 BNP Paribas World Team Cup

May 15, 2012 (Vancouver) – Canada’s top wheelchair tennis athletes are heading to Seoul, South Korea for the BNP Paribas World Team Cup, as the ITF’s flagship annual wheelchair tennis team competition takes place May 21-27, with 52 teams representing 28 countries. Taking place in Asia for the first time, this year the World Team Cup is also boasting a new title sponsor in BNP Paribas and a new format. While 16 teams have contested the men’s World Group I and World Group II as well as the women’s World Group in recent years, just 12 teams will participate in…
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18 May 2012

Gauthier captures gold at Paracanoe World Championships

OTTAWA, ON - All three of Canada's Paracanoe athletes made it to the podium at the Paracanoe World Championships in Poznan, Poland today as the team captured medals across four events. Christine Gauthier of Pointe-Claire, QC lead the field by winning gold in the Women's K1 200 metre LTA event for a second consecutive year. Gauthier first won the title of World Champion in the same event last August and prevailed again today in windy conditions by winning the race in a time of 57.7 seconds. She won by a margin of over three seconds with the second place competitor…
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18 May 2012

Swimming Olympians and Parlympians join MPs and Other Leaders to Make Canada the “Fittest Country on Earth”

OTTAWA – On Wednesday May 16, 2012, Conservative MP John Weston hosted the first ever National Life Jacket and Swim Day on Parliament Hill, joined by the Minister of Health, health, fitness & safety partners Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, the Canadian Red Cross, and Swimming Canada, Parliamentary Fitness Initiative Co-leaders, Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan and NDP MP Peter Stoffer, and other parliamentarians. Also present were special guests Tobias Oriwol, 2012 Olympian, and Brianna Jennett-McNeill, 2012 Paralympic Team nominee. “On National Life Jacket and Swim Day, we want to remind children, youth and their caregivers that wearing a lifejacket in and…
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17 May 2012

Roy, and Stilwell lead Canadian wheelchair racers into Swiss Series

OTTAWA - Eighteen of Canada's best wheelchair racers, including world record holders Diane Roy of Sherbrooke, Que., and Michelle Stilwell of Nanoose Bay, B.C., have traveled to Switzerland to compete in a series of meets being held May 17, 19 and 20. Roy is the world record holder in the T54 classification 5000-metres, in Switzerland she will race in this event as well as compete in the 400, 800 and 1500-metres. Stilwell got her season off to a blazing start breaking three world records over four days in January at the Summer Down Under series in Australia. She currently holds…
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16 May 2012

Team Canada’s Tracey Ferguson to Meet Prince Charles on May 22, 2012

Tracey Ferguson, veteran player with the Canadian Women's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, is among four Paralympic athletes who will meet His Royal Highness Prince Charles on May 22, 2012 for a tour of the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes' Village in Toronto, ON. Ferguson will join fellow athletes Victoria Nolan (rowing), Justin Karn (judo), and David Willsie (wheelchair rugby) for the tour. Ferguson, a three-time Paralympic gold medallist, has played on the National Team since 1991. She is set to compete at her sixth Paralympic Games this summer in London, England. May 22 marks the 100-day countdown to the London…
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16 May 2012

2012 Royal Tour Itinerary: May 22 2012

Source: http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1336669990111 Tuesday, May 22, 2012 – Toronto, Ontario 10:10 a.m. – Event Hosted by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario at Queen's Park Their Royal Highnesses arrive at Queen's Park to meet with the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and attend a Diamond Jubilee Medals ceremony, where they will present medals to recipients who, like Her Majesty, have dedicated themselves to service to their fellow citizens, their community and their country. 11:05 a.m. – His Royal Highness Tours the Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University His Royal Highness arrives at Ryerson University and meets with students and entrepreneurs involved in projects…
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16 May 2012

Countdown to Calgary, Countdown to London

http://www.2012trials.ca/news.php?id=30 CALGARY – The countdown has begun to the Canadian Track & Field Trials, June 27 – 30, 2012 at Foothills Athletic Park. Calgary athletes Sam Effah, Alister McQueen and Jessica Zelinka offered a glimpse earlier today of what it takes to prepare for the podium.  2012 is a paramount year as the Trials will host some 600 of Canada’s best athletes as they vie for a spot to represent Canada at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  “This is an opportunity to see our Canadians who’ll be representing us at the 2012 London Paralympic and Olympic Games, some…
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16 May 2012

Summer Mortimer awarded 2012 Team Investors Group Amateur Athletes Fund Bursary

OTTAWA – AthletesCAN and Investors Group are pleased to announce that Paralympic swimmer, Summer Mortimer has been awarded a $5,000 Team Investors Group Amateur Athletes Fund bursary. In keeping with their commitment to amateur sport in Canada, Investors Group established a bursary fund for Canada's top high performance athletes. A national leader in delivering personalized financial solutions to Canadians, Investors Group annually awards twenty $5,000 bursaries to assist Canada's elite amateur athletes with the costs of training and competition. Selection criteria includes: athletic achievement, financial need and community involvement. Since its inception in 2000, the Team Investors Group Amateur Athletes…
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16 May 2012

Meet Team Canada Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team 100 Days Before Start Of London 2012 Pararlympic Games

(Richmond, BC) With 100 days to go before competition starts at the London 2012 Paralympic Summer Games, members of the media areinvited to meet the Canadian Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team preparing for a potential record-setting fourth consecutive podium finish in London. Team Canada, will hold an open practice Tuesday May 22, 2012 from 3:00-5:00pm (PST) at the Richmond Olympic Oval. May 22 will mark 100 days until competition begins at the London 2012 Paralympic Games! The Canadian Paralympic Committee is marking the day with media appearances by athletes across the country, and is also launching a Super Fan contest on…
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16 May 2012

Korea to Host 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

Goyang City, Korea will play host to the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey A Pool World Championships, the IPC announced on Tuesday (15 May), the first time an Asian country will stage the event. Organized by the Korea Ice Hockey Association for the Disabled, the world's top eight teams will gather at the Goyang SPART Complex and Park from 12-20 April, 2013. It will be the seventh World Championships to take place since they began in Nynashamn, Sweden in 1996, and it will be the last major gathering of the best Ice Sledge Hockey teams ahead of…
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15 May 2012

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