The Paris Video games are over and the Summer season Olympics torch is shifting on to Los Angeles in 2028.
After Summer season McIntosh and Andre De Grasse headlined Canada’s crew in Paris, who is likely to be some athletes to observe in 4 years?
Listed below are 10 Canadians to look out for over the subsequent quadrennial:
SUMMER MCINTOSH — SWIMMING
Sure, the Paris Video games have been coined because the “summer season of Summer season” in Canada, and that might very nicely be the case once more in Los Angeles with the Toronto swimmer solely 17 years outdated.
McIntosh gained a Canadian document three gold medals (400-metre medley, 200 butterfly, 200 IM), added one silver (400 freestyle) and set two Olympic data in Paris. She’ll be 21 and poised to carry dwelling extra {hardware} from Los Angeles.
ILYA KHARUN — SWIMMING
Kharun additionally broke out in Paris by incomes bronze medals within the 100 and 200 fly, turning into the primary Canadian male swimmer to succeed in the Olympic podium since London 2012. The 19-year-old from Montreal was raised in Las Vegas because the son of Cirque du Soleil performers. He and 21-year-old Josh Liendo of Toronto, who claimed silver within the 100 fly, ought to nonetheless be of their primes in 2028.
CHRISTOPHER MORALES WILLIAMS — SPRINTING
Morales Williams was a rising monitor star in 2024, profitable NCAA indoor and outside 400-metre titles for the College of Georgia. The 20-year-old from Maple, Ont., had the third quickest time this yr earlier than the Paris Video games at 44.05 seconds, a Canadian document, however didn’t qualify for the Olympic closing. With one Olympics below his belt, he might come again with extra expertise in L.A.
ERIN BROOKS — SURFING
Brooks was a Canadian medal hope for Paris after profitable a silver medal on the 2023 ISA World Browsing Video games and gold on the 2022 ISA World Junior Championships, however didn’t qualify for the Olympics. The 17-year-old was eradicated on the 2024 ISA World Browsing Video games, the ultimate Olympic qualifier, in March. The U.S.-born Brooks gained a battle for Canadian citizenship earlier this yr.
ETHAN KATZBERG — HAMMER THROW
The closing ceremony flag-bearer alongside McIntosh, Katzberg is already the Olympic gold medallist in males’s hammer throw. However at 22 years outdated, he has the potential to be again on prime of the rostrum in 4 years. Katzberg, from Nanaimo, B.C., crushed the sector with an 84.12-metre throw in Paris and has ambitions of turning into the third man to interrupt 86.
SYLA SWORDS — BASKETBALL
Named to the ladies’s basketball crew in Paris, Swords turned the youngest Canadian Olympic basketball participant at 18 years outdated. The six-foot ahead from Sudbury, Ont., averaged 3.3 factors in 14.6 minutes in Paris. She’s heading to the College of Michigan for the upcoming season. Toby Fournier, headed to Duke, can be a reputation to look out for.
SOPHIA JENSEN — CANOEING
Jensen positioned sixth within the girls’s C-1 200 metres in Paris, 0.96 behind teammate and gold medallist Katie Vincent, who’s 28. The 22-year-old Jensen of Chelsea, Que., is taken into account a rising canoeing star and will carry the torch from Vincent in Los Angeles.
SHAI GILGEOUS-ALEXANDER — BASKETBALL
Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder star Gilgeous-Alexander is already broadly thought of Canada’s finest males’s basketball participant. The NBA MVP candidate from Hamilton can be 30 by the point the Los Angeles Video games roll round and hungry to avenge Canada’s quarterfinal loss to France in Paris. He averaged 24.5 factors, 6.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists within the event.
SAVANNAH SUTHERLAND — HURDLES
Sutherland, 21, was the youngest hurdler to succeed in the ladies’s 400-metre closing in Paris. She completed seventh in a closing that featured Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of america setting a world document of fifty.37 seconds. Sutherland, from Borden, Sask., holds the Canadian document of 53.26.
AURORA CORDINGLEY — LACROSSE SIXES
Cordingley is a possible athlete for a brand new sport on the L.A. Olympics: lacrosse sixes. The 25-year-old from Oakville, Ont., helped Canada declare gold within the self-discipline with a team-leading 22 factors (13 objectives, 9 assists) in 5 video games on the 2022 World Video games in Birmingham, Ala. Her youthful sister, 18-year-old Dacia, can be aiming to make Canada’s crew in 2028.
Baseball/softball, flag soccer, T20 cricket and squash will even be new or returning sports activities in Los Angeles.
