ST. JOHN’S – The wrestling competition officially wrapped up on Aug. 23 as the individual portion of the event took centre stage. Wrestlers had earned their ranking thanks to their results during the team competition. Using the pools from the team duals, the top two wrestlers earned spots in the semifinals. The number one crossed over to face the number two in the other pool, with the two winners advancing to the finals. The remining matches were a direct cross over for final placing (ie. third place in Pool A versus third place in Pool B for fifth overall).

Women’s Results

On the women’s side, Alberta came away with the most gold medals with four. The golds were won by Victoria Stefanov at 47kg, Paige Veloso at 65kg, Amelia Lucas at 69kg, and Clara Smithanik at 73kg. B.C. picked up three gold (Gurleen Dhillon at 50kg, Kai Pare at 59kg, and Natalie Wojciechowski at 62kg), Ontario won two (Kaura Coles at 53kg and Aniah Zedan at 80kg), Saskatchewan won one (Meagan Summers at 56kg), and New Brunswick won one (Pepper Pepperdene at 90kg).

Men’s Results

The men’s side saw Ontario and B.C. each come away with five gold medals. Ontario’s were won by Ricky Parra at 48kg, Oscar Chin at 52kg, Aaharen Piranavan at 56kg, Aiden O’Neill at 60kg and JJ Coles at 71kg. As for B.C., their medals were won by Dominic Wendt at 65kg, Sasha Chupryna at 77kg, Harjot Shergill at 92kg, Mehar Deol at 100kg, and Jagroop Dhinsa at 120kg. The other gold medal was won by Manitoba’s Taras Fisun at 85kg.

For complete results click here. For more information on the Canada Games visit: https://www.2025canadagames.ca.

With that wrestling at the Canada Games comes to an end. It was a fantastic event that saw all 13 provinces represented in both the men’s and women’s division. Wrestling Canada Lutte would like to thank the Canada Games Council, Canada Games host society, City of St. John’s, the staff at Glacier Arena, the officials, volunteers and everyone who made the event a success.