T-Birds take Rio
With 29 current and former UBC athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics, sports fans can expect more than a month of non-stop action. The events get going on August 6th when Canada’s Men’s Field Hockey Team plays Germany. The Olympic action culminates on August 21st with the finals in men’s volleyball and the 5000 metre. Then from September 7th –19th the Paralympics begin as UBC athletes Byron Green and Travis Murao go for gold on Canada’s wheelchair rugby team.  We'll be sharing live updates throughout the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics on
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Athletics
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Men's 20km walk
Evan Dunfee, Inaki Gomez, Ben Thorne
Friday, August 12, 10:30 a.m.
Women's 3000m steeplechase
Maria Bernard
Heats: Saturday August 13, 6:05 a.m.
Final:Â Monday, August 15, 7:15 a.m.
Men's High Jump
Michael Mason
Qualifications: Sunday, August 14, 4:30 p.m.
Final: Tuesday, August 16, 4:30 p.m.
Women's javelin throw
Liz Gleadle
Qualifications: Tuesday, August 16, 4:35 p.m.
Final: Thursday, August 18, 5:10 p.m.
Men's 5000mÂ
Lucas Bruchet
Heats:Â Wednesday, August 17, 6:05 a.m.
Final:Â Satuday, August 20, 5:30 p.m.
Men's 50km walk
Evan Dunfee
Friday, Aug 19, 4:00 a.m.
Beach Volleyball
Jamie Broder
Canada vs Italy: Sunday, August 7, 6 p.m.Â
Canada vs Germany: Tuesday, August 9, 2:30 p.m.
Canada vs Egypt: Thursday, August 11, 11:30 a.m.Â
Round of 16: Saturday, August 13, 8:30 a.m.
Field Hockey
Dave Carter, Taylor Curran, Ben Martin, Mark Pearson, Keegan Pereira, Matthew Sarmento, Scott Tupper, Gordon Johnston
Canada vs Germany: Saturday, August 6, 2 p.m.Â
Canada vs Argentina: Monday, August 8, 8:30 a.m.
Canada vs Netherlands: Tuesday, August 9, 9:30 a.m.Â
Canada vs Ireland: Thursday, August 11, 7 a.m.
Canada vs India: Friday, August 12, 8:30 a.m.
 
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Rowing
Men's coxless lightweight four
Maxwell Lattimer
Heat: Saturday, August 6, 8 a.m.
Repêchage: Monday, August 8, TBD
Semi-Final: Tuesday, August 9, 6:50 a.m.
Final: Thursday, August 11, 6:44 a.m.
Women's coxed eight
Lauren Wilkinson
Heat: Monday, August 8, 6:30 a.m.
Final: Saturday, August 13, 7:04 a.m
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Sailing
Mixed nacra 17 (multihull)
Nikola Girke, Luke Ramsay
Race 1: Wednesday, August 10
Race 2: Wednesday, August 10
Race 3: Thursday, August 11
Race 4: Thursday, August 11
Race 5: Thursday, August 11
Race 6: Thursday, August 11
Race 7:Â Saturday, August 13
Race 8: Saturday, August 13
Race 9: Saturday, August 13
Race 10: Sunday, August 14, 9:05 a.m.
Race 11: Sunday, August 14, 10:05 a.m.
Race 12: Sunday, August 14, 11:05 a.m.
Swimming
Women's 400m individual medley
Emily Overholt
Heat: Saturday, August 6, 10:32 a.m.
Men's 4x100m freestyle relay
Yuri Kisil, Markus Thormeyer
Heat: Sunday, August 7, 11:05 a.m.
Women's 400m freestyle
Emily Overholt
Heat: Sunday, August 7, 10:33 a.m.
Women's 200m individual medley
Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson
Heat: Monday, August 8, 9:56 a.m.
Men's 100m freestyle
Yuri Kisil
Heat: Tuesday, August 9, 9 a.m.  Â
Women's 200m breaststroke
Martha McCabe
Heat: Wednesday, August 10, 9:47 a.m.
Men's 50m freestyle
Yuri Kisil
Heat: Thursday, August 11, 9 a.m.
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Volleyball
Blair Bann
Canada vs USA: Sunday, August 7, 1:05 p.m.
Canada vs Brazil: Tuesday, August 9, 6:35 p.m.
Canada vs France: Thursday, August 11, 1:05 p.m.
Canada vs Mexico: Saturday, August 13, 4:30 p.m.
Canada vs Italy: Monday, August 15, 4:30 p.m.
Canada vs Russia: Wenesday, August 17, 6 a.m.
Wheelchair Rugby
TBC
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