TOKYO, JPN (July 24, 2021) – Rene Cournoyer of Repentigny, QC opened up the gymnastics competition for Canada at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Saturday, competing in the qualifying rounds of men’s artistic gymnastics where he ended the day in 49th position in the all-around competition – unfortunately not advancing to any finals.
Rene Cournoyer was just seven years old and hardly aware of the Olympics when Kyle Shewfelt won the gold medal for floor exercise at the 2004 Games in Athens.
OTTAWA, ON (June 30, 2021) – Gymnastics Canada, in partnership with the Alberta Gymnastics Federation and Edmonton Events, are proud to announce that one year from today, the city of Edmonton will play host to the 2022 Canadian Gymnaestrada event from June 30th to July 5th, 2022.
MONTREAL (June 17, 2021) – Gymnastics Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Canada’s artistic gymnastics team nominated to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at an event held at Parc Olympique in Montreal on Thursday.
OTTAWA, ON (June 7, 2021) – Gymnastics Canada is pleased to announce that Martin Sanio joined the GymCan team today as our new National Events Manager. Sanio joins GymCan from the Laval Regional Soccer Association where he was the Director of Soccer Operations for the last two years.
OTTAWA, ON (May 7, 2021) – Gymnastics Canada has made the very difficult decision to not enter teams in the upcoming 2021 Senior Pan American Championships being held in Rio de Janeiro, BRA between June 4-13, 2021 and the 2021 Junior Pan American Championships slated for Guadalajara, MEX (artistic), and Guatemala City, GUA (rhythmic) due to health and safety concerns resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic.
OTTAWA, ON (February 25, 2021) – The 2021 Elite Canada in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics wrapped up this past weekend with Jesse Tyndall from Taiso Gymnastics in Saskatchewan taking the senior all-around title following two ‘days’ of competition. Zachary Clay from Twisters Gymnastics in BC had the top senior one-day all-around score.
Ottawa, ON (February 5, 2021) – Gymnastics Canada, along with their provincial and territorial member organizations, will be “Celebrating Gymnastics: From here, we soar” from February 6th to the 14th, with the goal of uniting the gymnastics community from across the country in celebration of the sport.
