Presented by Intact Insurance
Medals on Tour
This all new cross-country tour will see Canada’s top short track and long track speed skaters – including World Cup, Four Continents, World Championship and Olympic medalists – visit six communities across the country where they will take part in on-ice and off-ice activities to showcase the sport.
Overview
Speed Skating Canada and longstanding sponsor Intact Insurance are partnering on a cross-country tour that will see World Cup, World Championship and Olympic medalists visit six communities across Canada this fall to help showcase the sport.
Medals on Tour will run from September 6-17 and feature stops in six different provinces, where members of the speed skating community and general public will have the opportunity to interact with Canadian national team athletes and take part in both on-ice and off-ice activities, including public skating, school visits and events with local charities and community groups.
Canadian national team athletes confirmed to participate in the tour include Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu and Florence Brunelle in Trois-Rivières, Tyson Langelaar and Gilmore Junio in Kamloops, Brooklyn McDougall and Marsha Hudey in Saskatoon, Heather McLean and Danaé Blais in Winnipeg, Ivanie Blondin and Jordan Pierre-Gilles in Toronto, Valérie Maltais and Jordan Belchos in Dartmouth. Details on the community activities they will be taking part in at each of the tour stops can be found below.
Tour Stops
The inaugural Medals on Tour will run from September 6-17 and feature stops in six different provinces, where members of the speed skating community and general public will have the opportunity to interact with Canadian national team athletes and take part in both on-ice and off-ice activities, including public skating, school visits and events with local charities and community groups.
The six tour stops were jointly selected by Speed Skating Canada and Intact Insurance and include the two most recent winners of the Intact Insurance Club Excellence Award (Kamloops, B.C. and Dartmouth, N.S.), as well as a community chosen through a social media contest (Saskatoon, Sask.).
