Watch as Sunohara, Chan, Nestor inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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Hockey player Vicky Sunohara, figure skater Patrick Chan and tennis player Daniel Nestor are among the athletes who will be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday in Gatineau, Que.
Distance runner Angela Chalmers, para swimmer Kirby Cote and the late multi-sport athlete Fred Thomas will join them among athlete inductees.
In all, nine new members will receive the Order of Sport at the induction ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., streaming live at 10 a.m. ET on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem, and the CBC Sports App).
Guylaine Demers, who works for gender and sexual orientation equity in sport domestically and internationally, and Indigenous sports leader Alex Nelson will enter as builders.
High jumper Debbie Brill will be recognized in the trailblazer category established in 2022. She pioneered the "Brill Bend" jump technique.
The class of 2024 was chosen from 237 nominations, Hall president and CEO Cheryl Bernard said in a June statement.
Over 740 people and three horses have been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame since 1955.
Toronto's Sunohara won two Olympic gold medals and seven world championships during her 19 years on the Canadian women's hockey team.
The forward played in the first IIHF women's world championship in 1990, as well as in the Olympic debut of women's hockey in 1998.
"I'm so grateful for the opportunity to have represented our women's national hockey team alongside some of the most incredible teammates," Sunohara said.
Chan, a three-time men's world figure skating champion from Toronto, helped Canada win gold in the team event in 2018 and earned a silver medal in men's singles in 2014.
Toronto's Nestor won eight Grand Slam titles in men's doubles and another four in mixed doubles. He teamed with Sebastien Lareau to win Olympic men's doubles gold in 2000.
"It's a thrill to be mentioned in the same sentence as this year's inductees as well as all of the influential members of the past," Nestor said. "For me, this recognition is the highest honour an athlete can achieve in our country so I'm very appreciative to have been chosen."
When a teenaged Chloe Primerano made her debut on the Canadian women’s hockey team last season, Jocelyne Larocque was often the steady force beside her on the blue line.
The Vancouver Canucks announced Friday that they have traded captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild.
Canada's Kevin Drury battled his way to a gold medal that left him in tears at a World Cup ski cross event on Friday in Val Thorens, France.
Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a "monumental betrayal" after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is “disappointed” that the main arena slated to host ice hockey at February’s Olympics isn’t yet completed with less than two months to go before the Games are scheduled to be played.
A two-year suspension from competitive swimming has forced Penny Oleksiak to answer questions about drug use, train by herself in public pools and defend her legacy as Canada’s most decorated female Olympian.
Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.
Summer McIntosh capped swimming’s U.S. Open with the event record in the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Saturday in Austin, Texas.
Some bronze medals are worth their weight in gold. Valerie Grenier's third-place finish in women's giant slalom at the Mont-Tremblant World Cup certainly fits that category.
The men’s World Cup draw in Washington D.C. was going well for Canada until Pot 4.
The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at 12 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center in Washington, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., buzzed with activity and speculation on Thursday in advance of Friday’s all-important draw for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.