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Team Canada will have strong representation from Saskatchewan this month, as the country goes for gold at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Seven athletes and one coach have been announced by Team Canada, who will wear the maple leaf at the 23rd edition of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Saskatchewan track and field star Savannah Sutherland will race in the women’s 400-metre hurdles, after she made her Olympic debut for Canada at the 2024 Paris Games, where she finished in seventh place.
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The Borden, Sask. product, who will be the lone provincial Olympian on Canada’s roster, also is a two-time NCAA champion in the 400 metre hurdles.
Two para athletes from Saskatchewan will also compete in athletics for Canada, with Saskatoon’s Maitlan Knoke and Gerald’s Claire Norek both set to participate in shot put.
Saskatoon’s Etta Love and Jordan Carroll will each make their Commonwealth Games debut for Team Canada, as Love will compete in 86-plus kilogram weightlifting while Carroll will enter into team gymnastics and the men’s pommel horse event.
Garrett Ostepchuk from Regina will return to the world stage in men’s wheelchair basketball, after he represented Canada at two Paralympics in 2021 and 2024. He’ll be joined on the court by Aberdeen product and ex-Kamloops Blazers forward Kyrell Sopotyk, as the former Western Hockey League player will make his Commonwealth Games debut after joining the senior national team last year.
Also part of the men’s wheelchair basketball team will be head coach Jared Sajtos, who has spent time in both Saskatoon and Regina.
“For many members of Team Canada, Glasgow will be their first opportunity to experience a major international Games environment,” said Team Canada chef de mission Erica Wiebe.
“For others, it is another opportunity to represent Canada on one of the sport’s biggest stages. Together, this team reflects the very best of our country and I know Canadians will be proud of what they accomplish in Glasgow.”
Canada’s contingent of 149 athletes will begin competition in Glasgow on Thursday.
