PANAMA CITY \u2014 The Canadian women\u2019s and men\u2019s flag football teams won medals Sunday at the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Continental flag football championship. <\/p>\n
The Canadian women claimed a silver medal after dropping a 12-0 decision in the tournament final to Mexico. Canada finished the round robin with a perfect 3-0 record that included a 26-25 victory over the Mexicans.<\/p>\n
Lea Duval had a sack for Canada in the championship game. The Canadians advanced to the final with a 26-24 semifinal victory over Panama as Sara Parker threw touchdown passes to Caroline Moquin Joubert (two) and Emma Racine, while Duval had two sacks and Catherine Gaumont added two interceptions.<\/p>\n
The silver medal comes after Canada claimed a historic bronze medal at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China. The Canadians earned their first-ever international hardware in women\u2019s flag football with a 38-20 victory over Austria.<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s event, Michael O\u2019Connor threw five touchdown passes as Canada defeated Panama 32-22 to capture the bronze medal. James Drysdale had two TDs, while Antony Auclair, Francois Rocheleau and Jeansee Alexis had the others.<\/p>\n
JS Balisle had two interceptions and Keyshawn Upshaw added a sack.<\/p>\n
The Canadians finished the round robin second in their pool with a 3-1 record before dropping a 35-25 semifinal decision to Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n
More importantly, both Canadian teams are a step closer to qualifying for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. They finished among the top-five teams in their respective events to secure spots at the \u201926 world championships, which will be held in Germany. <\/p>\n
The top three teams at the global event will clinch berths to the \u201928 Los Angeles Summer Games, where flag football will make its Olympic debut.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY \u2014 The Canadian women\u2019s and men\u2019s flag football teams won medals Sunday at the International Federation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-144548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}