Seven Reasons Why Sports Fans Need to Explore Canada

It's not all grizzly bears and ski fields! Hundreds of thousands of sports explore Canada coast to coast every year for world-class sporting events in every season. Read on for seven reasons why Canada is the perfect place to combine two great loves: travel and sport.

1. The Dew Tour Am Series returns to Sun Peaks Resort, Canada's 2nd largest ski resort, on 27-28 March 2015. This slopestyle and Big Air competition is Canada's premier amateur ski and snowboard event. www.SunPeaksResort.com/DewTourAmSeries

2. Over 1.5 million soccer fans will cheer on their teams during the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 (plus half a billion global TV viewers) from 6 June. With 24 countries competing in 52 matches over 30 days in Moncton, NB,Montréal, QC, Ottawa, ON, Winnipeg, MB, Edmonton, AB, and Vancouver, BC, the tournament is the pinnacle of women's soccer.

3. Toronto plays host to the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games—Ontario's first international multisport event in 85 years. The 36 events of the Pan Am Games start July 10 while the 15 events of the Parapan Am Games begin 7th August.

4. Tennis greats like Serena Williams, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal—along with $3 million in prize money —make the Rogers Cup one of Canada's premier pro tournaments. Simultaneous men's and women's matches are played in Toronto and Montréal, respectively, starting 7th August.

5. Racers will lap Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve at 300 km/h, while Montreal celebrates night and day at Montréal's Grand Prix du Canada for three days from 5th June.

6. The best-known names in golf are set to descend on Glen Abby Golf Club, near Toronto, for the annual RBC Canadian Open. Tee-off is 20 July, when participants will vie for a $6 million purse.

7. Red Bull Crashed Ice is set to make its debut in Western Canada when the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship crashes and glides its way into Edmonton on 14 March. Competitors will descend a steep ice track filled with bumps, jumps, rollers and obstacles, four-at-a-time, reaching speeds of up to 70km/h.

For further information or to obtain images please contact Pip Macken: pip@pipmacken.id.au