The 2024 Paris Olympics begin on Friday and there are several Saskatchewan athletes competing in the Games
As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris get underway on Friday, there will be 338 Canadian athletes competing in 329 events across 32 sports.
And among the long list of athletes competing this year, 16 of them either call Saskatchewan home or have ties to the province.
Meet the Athletes
Paige Crozon – 3×3 basketball
Crozon will be part of Canada’s 3×3 women’s basketball squad that will compete in its first Olympics since the sport was introduced at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Michelle Harrison – Athletics
Harrison is a three-time national champion who will be competing in his first Olympics.
The 31-year-old Saskatoon product, who has represented Canada eight times throughout her international career, is set to race in the women’s 100-metre hurdles on Aug. 2 and 3.
Anicka Newell – Athletics
Born and raised in Texas, Newell, 31, spent summers in Saskatoon growing up, where her mom’s side of the family is from.
Blaire McDowell – Water polo
McDowell, who moved to Regina when she was a teenager, attended Martin Collegiate where she specialized in water polo.
After high school, the 23-year-old attended Arizona State University before joining the national team.
Carissa Norsten – Rugby 7s
Norsten, a 20-year-old Waldheim product, will be making her Olympic debut with the women’s Rugby 7s squad.
In 2023, she helped Canada win silver at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Earlier this year, Norsten was named HSBC SVNS women’s rookie of the year.
Kenzie Priddell – Artistic swimming
Priddell, 27, will be attending her second Olympics after being an alternate for the team at the 2020 Games.
Sydney Carroll – Artistic swimming
Carroll, a Saskatoon product, will be an alternate on Canada’s artistic swimming team in Paris.
A member of the senior national team since 2020, Carroll helped Canada win bronze at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Savannah Sutherland – Athletics
She will be competing in the women’s 400-m hurdles and the women’s 4 x 400-m relay.
Blake Tierney – Swimming
At the 2023 Pan American Games, he won five medals, including a bronze in the 100-m backstroke along with four relay medals.
Rylan Wiens – Diving
This year, Wiens, 22, will be competing the men’s platform 10-m and the synchronized platform 10-m.
Margo Erlam – Diving
Erlam will be competing in the women’s 3-m springboard event after winning gold at the Canadian Diving Trials in May.
Born in Calgary, Erlam, 22, moved to Saskatoon when she was 16 to train and has since gone on to represent Canada several times before, including at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, where she won bronze in the women’s 3-m synchronized event.
Trey Lyles – Basketball
Lyles, 28, was born in Saskatoon but moved to Indiana with his family when he was seven. He grew up playing in the USA development system but decided to represent Canada internationally.
He has since gone on to play more than 500 games in the NBA and will be looking to help Canada win gold when men’s basketball begins on Saturday.
Tammara Thibeault – Boxing
It will be her second Olympics after finishing fifth in 2020.
Kelsey Wog – Swimming
Wog, who was born in Regina before moving to Winnipeg, will be competing in the women’s 100-m and 200-m breaststroke events.
The 25-year-old previously competed for Canada in Tokyo. She also won a silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in the 200-m.
Janine Beckie – Soccer
Although she never lived in Saskatchewan, Beckie’s parents are from the province.
Her mom Sheila is from Regina, while her dad Gary grew up in Kenaston. Both parents played basketball for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies before moving to Regina in the early 1980s when Gary worked for Sask Sport Inc. while Sheila coached the University of Cougars women’s basketball team before being inducted into the University of Regina Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
Ovesh Purahoo – Swimming
