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Team Manitoba 2023 Canada Winter Games

Team Manitoba at the 2023 Canada Winter Games
February 18 – March 5, 2023
Prince Edward Island

Event Coverage Information

 Team Manitoba is sending 207 of the province’s best young athletes, along with 47 coaches, 15 managers, 6 technical support staff, and 22 mission staff to participate at the 2023 Canada Winter Games. 

The Canada Games brings together more than 2,000 able-bodied athletes and athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities for the largest amateur multi-sport event in the country. Alternating between winter and summer, they span over 30 different sports to showcase the very best in Canadian sport and spirit.

Results
Keep your eyes on Team Manitoba’s InstagramFacebook, and Twitter accounts. Official results can be obtained directly from the Canada Games. The online results system provides multiple search features. You can search by an athlete’s name, team name, sport, or city. It also provides a report that sorts results by day, sport and/or event that will be live by February 18.


Cross Country Ski Team

Family fun facts:

  • Siblings: Naomi and Ben Wiens from Boundary Trails Nordic (Morden) 
  • Siblings: Kate and Mia Sawatsky, from Boundary Trails Nordic (Altona)
  • Team Manager Pauline Nadlersmith’s two children are both competing – Levi and Imogen. This is Levi’s third Canada Games and Imogen’s second. 
  • Coach Steven Wintoniw will coach his children Hannah and William.
  • Technical support staffer Andrew Vanden Berg is attending with his son William, and his three nephews, Isaiah Vanden Berg, and Hezekiah and Gideon Hoeppner.

Past results

  • 2019:
    • 1 Gold, 2 Bronze – Jesse Bachinsky
    • Bronze – Conor McGovern

More history here: https://www.sportmanitoba.ca/team-manitoba/

Community ski event at Ste Geneviève on Louis Riel Day

The Ste Geneviève Community Centre, in conjunction with the RM of Taché, is pleased to organize a community ski and snowshoe event at the Monominto Trails on Louis Riel Day (Monday February 20) from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Walk, snowshoe, or ski through poplar forest on the gentle trails using your own equipment (a few snowshoes and child-sized skis will be available to try out), and then join family and friends around a bonfire with hot chocolate. For more information, check out the Facebook event page or email robin.attas@gmail.com .