{"id":819230,"date":"2026-07-22T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:26:11","slug":"dinos-alumni-to-represent-canada-at-2026-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819230\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinos alumni to represent Canada at 2026 Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CALGARY \u2013 Two University of Calgary Dinos alumni will represent Team Canada at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, running July 23 to Aug. 2.<\/p>\n

Track and field athlete Sienna MacDonald<\/a> has been selected to compete in the women’s heptathlon and women’s long jump. A standout during her U SPORTS career, MacDonald broke her own U SPORTS long jump record in 2026, extending the previous mark of 6.25 metres to 6.36 metres to claim her sixth national gold medal. She also claimed silver in the 60-metre hurdles and bronze in the 60-metre dash at the same championship, having previously lowered the U SPORTS 60-metre hurdles record twice in 2025 \u2013\u00a0first to 8.09 seconds and then to 7.99 seconds. MacDonald arrives at the Commonwealth Games on the strength of her first international medal, a silver at the 2026 Pan American Championships in Athletics in Colombia.<\/p>\n

Dinos alumna Erica Wiebe will also be part of Team Canada, serving as Chef de Mission. A two-time Commonwealth Games champion and 2016 Rio Olympic gold medallist, Wiebe also competed at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The wrestling great represented the Dinos from 2007-12 and was inducted into the Dinos Hall of Fame in 2024.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Commonwealth Games will feature athletes from 74 nations and territories competing across 10 sports and six Para sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links CALGARY \u2013 Two University of Calgary Dinos alumni will represent Team Canada at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-819230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819230","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=819230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}