Team Saskatchewan concluded the 2025 Canada Summer Games with an impressive haul of 48 medals, finishing sixth overall in the medal standings. The province’s athletes claimed 13 gold, 14 silver, and 21 bronze medals, along with 19 fourth-place finishes.
After earning four medals in the first week of competition, Saskatchewan’s athletes dominated in the second week, which took place from August 18-24, adding 44 more medals, including 12 golds.
Gold medal performances in athletics came from Tayen Werner (women’s 400-m), Olamide Olaloku (triple jump), Shelaine Pritchard (heptathlon), Meagan Summers (wrestling), and the women’s 4×400-m relay team. On the men’s side, Bradyn Giraudier (Special Olympics 200-m), Jonathan Podbielski (5,000-m), and Leo Zheng (Para swimming) secured top podium finishes.
Silver medals were claimed by athletes including Nathan Pinno, David Lipton, Isa Koop, Morgan Vaughan, Hailee Woodhouse, Hannah Gates, Joely Friesen and Sienna Kuchuran, Shelaine Pritchard, Tyler Langford, Brooklyn Dieter, and the 4×100-m relay team.
Bronze medalists included Baer Robertson, Logan Kok, Tarasoff, Williams Ogunnubi, Carter Tuplin, Happy Oluwasikun, Ethan Hunter, Grace Igbiki, Michael Hussey, Jacob Kozak, Othniel Kabongo, Chase Mitchell Riley, Liz Chapman, Stacy Dustyhorn, as well as Saskatchewan’s men’s baseball, women’s volleyball, women’s beach volleyball, and men’s 4×100-m relay teams.
Martensville had a number of athletes competing for Team Saskatchewan, including Logan Schmidt – Men’s Athletics (High Jump), Andie Marshall – Women’s Baseball, Joshua Gutek – Men’s Baseball, Jakob Jungwirth – Men’s Baseball, Emma Frisky – Women’s Softball, Nicole Godbout – Women’s Swimming (200m & 400m Freestyle, 100m & 200m Backstroke), Scott Heinbigner – Men’s Swimming and Landon Moss – Men’s Wrestling (Team & Individual up to 85kg).
Josh Gutek, who played outfield with the bronze medal winning men’s baseball team felt honoured to be representing not only Saskatchewan, but Martensville as well.
“The Canada Summer Games were truly an unbelievable experience. We were seen as the underdogs all tournament and we proved we can compete. I’m super proud of how my teammates and I played, and I’m excited to bring the bronze medal back home,” Gutek stated.
Team Saskatchewan included 377 athletes, 85 coaches, and 26 mission staff from 92 communities, competing in nearly 240 events across 19 disciplines over the 16-day Games. The performance marks a strong improvement from the 2022 Games, where the province finished eighth with 32 medals.
ABOVE: Martensville resident Josh Gutek was honoured to represent his province and community on the bronze medal winning men’s baseball team at the 2025 Canada Summer Games.
