by Jenn Vieira | Sep 26, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
Preliminary sitting volleyball competition got underway at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on Tuesday. Eleven countries plus participants playing as part of Team Unconquered competed in a round-robin tournament. Sitting volleyball, which originated in 1956 as a...
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 26, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
From morning to mid-afternoon, several pool matches took place to determine who would advance to the wheelchair tennis semifinals and finals. The first pool match of the day started at 8 a.m., with New Zealand versus Canada, pitting Kiwis Glenn Barnes and Aaron Gibbs...
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 26, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
The medals at this year’s Invictus Games have undergone a distinctly Canadian alteration. Adorned with a bright yellow ribbon, which is symbolic of the Invictus Games, 13 maple leaves join the Games motto “I am the master of my fate” on the medal’s front, and...
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 25, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
A lot of lucky spectators discovered a new sport in the heart of downtown Toronto on Day 1 of the 2017 Invictus Games. Wheelchair tennis preliminaries played out on a hot and humid day in Nathan Phillips Square. It’s not your everyday tennis; it’s a game of precision...
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 25, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
Ukraine’s Serhii Torchynskyy won a bronze medal in the men’s IF4 shot put during a long, punishingly hot day of competition at York Lions Stadium in Toronto. This marks Ukraine’s first-ever Invictus Games medal, as it is the nation’s first time participating in the...
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 25, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN |
Canada won its first medal of the Invictus Games on Sunday when Michael Clarke nabbed bronze in the men’s IT5 100-metre wheelchair race. He quickly followed that up with silver in the 200-metre and gold in the 400-metre IT5 events. Michael was back on the track on...
