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The 2009
Canada Summer Games The Canada Games () is a multi-sport event held every two years, alternating between the Canada Winter Games and the Canada Summer Games. They represent the highest level of national competition for Canadian athletes. Two separate programs are or ...
were held in
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...
from August 15 to 29.


Medal standings

The following is the medal table for the 2009 Canada Summer Games.


Events

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Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...
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Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
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Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
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Canoe A canoe is a lightweight, narrow watercraft, water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles. In British English, the term ' ...
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Kayak ] A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle. The word ''kayak'' originates from the Inuktitut word '' qajaq'' (). In British English, the kayak is also considered to be ...
* Cycle sport, Cycling *
Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), ...
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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
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Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically a ...
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Rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby union: 15 players per side *** American flag rugby *** Beach rugby *** Mini rugby *** Rugby sevens, 7 players per side *** Rugby tens, 10 players per side *** Snow rugby *** Tou ...
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Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...
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Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
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Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...
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Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
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Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
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Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the ...
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Beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
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Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
Yukon won its first Canada summer games gold medal at these games courtesy of Alexendra Gabor in the 400M freestyle event in swimming She also won all of Yukon's medals.


Venues

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Alberton Memorial Field Alberton may refer to: Australia * Alberton, Queensland, a rural locality in the City of Gold Coast * Alberton, South Australia * Alberton, Tasmania * Alberton, Victoria Canada * Alberton, Ontario * Alberton, Prince Edward Island New Zealand ...
, Alberton - Softball * Brookvale Winter Activity Park, Brookvale - Cycling * Brudnell River Golf Course, Roseneath - Golf * CARI Aquatics Facility, Charlottetown - Swimming, Diving * Centennial Pool, Halifax - Diving * Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre, Charlottetown - Volleyball *
Clipper Field A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century. Clippers were generally narrow for their lengt ...
, Cardigan - Baseball * Credit Union Place, Summerside - Opening Ceremony * Eastern Eagles Soccer Complex, Lower Montague - Soccer * École Évangeline Softball Field, Abrams Village - Softball *
Evangeline Region ''Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie'' is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the e ...
- Cycling * Jerry McCormack Memorial Complex, Souris - Soccer * Kensington Intermediate Senior High School,
Kensington Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
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Lions Club Field The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large cat of the genus ''Panthera'', native to Sub-Saharan Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head; round ears; and a dark, hairy tuft at the tip of its tail. It is se ...
, Kensington - Softball * MacLauchlan Arena, Charlottetown - Volleyball *
MacNeil Memorial Field MacNeil can have a number of different meanings and spellings: Clan MacNeil is a Scottish clan. Notable people *Al MacNeil (1935–2025), Canadian ice hockey player and coach *Angus MacNeil (born 1970), Scottish politician *Archibald Macneil o ...
, Stratford - Baseball * Memorial Field, Charlottetown - Baseball * Montague and Area Recreation Facility, Montague - Wrestling *
Morell Soccer Complex Morell may refer to: * Morell (name) * Morell, Prince Edward Island, Canada *Morell River, County Kildare, Ireland * Morell Bridge, an arch bridge over the Yarra River in South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia * El Morell, Tarragona, Cataloni ...
, Morell - Soccer * O'Leary Softball Field,
O'Leary O'Leary is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Laoghaire, meaning "descendant of Laoghaire"—a personal name often interpreted as "keeper of the calves" or "calf herder." The name is historically associated with a prominent family lineage ...
- Softball * Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside - Sailing * Southwest River - Canoe/Kayak, Rowing * Stratford Soccer Field, Stratford - Soccer *Summerside Waterfront, Summerside - Triathlon, Cycling * Summerside Wellness Centre, Summerside - Basketball, Soccer, Beach Volleyball *
Three Oaks Senior High School Three Oaks Senior High School (often abbreviated as TOSH) is a Canadian secondary school located in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Summerside, Prince Edward Island for students from the eastern part of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Prin ...
, Summerside - Rugby, Basketball * UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place, Charlottetown - Athletics, Soccer, Closing Ceremonies * Victoria Park Tennis Courts, Charlottetown - Tennis * VIV Field, Summerside - Softball * Westisle Composite High School, Elmsdale - Soccer


Official site


Jeux du Canada 2009


References


External links

{{Canada Games 2009 Canada Games Canada Games, 2009 Canada Games, 2009