CKRW Local Sports

Whitehorse, YT - Team Yukon is bringing home 58 medals from the Canada 55+ Games in Quebec City with over half of the hardware earned by swimmers and track and field athletes. Yukon swimmers captured 28 medals: 14 gold, nine silver and five bronze. Nesta Leduc, 91, was the oldest participant at the Games and secured on...

Whitehorse, YT - Team Yukon hit the ground running at the 2024 Canada 55+ Games with numerous athletes taking medals in the pool and track and field. All 12 sports were in action during the second day of the four-day national multisport event. In the pool six swimmers took medals. Maureen Wallingham snagged gold and si...

Whitehorse, YT - During a part-time job at a hockey shop in Vancouver, Cameron Lee, noticed a mountain of second-hand sports equipment being discarded but saw more than just gear - he saw potential. At age 14, Cameron founded Sports for Support in 2022 to make sports more accessible to youth. In December 2023, he recei...

Whitehorse, YT - Although former Olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen won't be competing, her presence will be felt at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games as she attends as a guest alongside her mother Moira, who is making history as the first female technical delegate for Olympic weightlifting. Jeane Lassen, who competed in wei...

Whitehorse, YT - The 44th annual Kilrich Native Hockey Tournament for 2024 wrapped up at the Canada Games Centre and Takhini Arena in Whitehorse on Sunday bringing an end to four days of hard-fought hockey matches among the 56 teams competing who came from all over the Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territor...