About the 2025 Edition
The 2025 edition of the Défi sportif AlterGo was a great success! From April 25 to May 4, 6000 athletes, from up-and-comers to elite-level, all with a functional limitation have gathered in Montreal and on the South shore for the 42nd edition of the Canada’s largest multi-sport event.
In 2025, the featured:
- 10 days of competition
- 110 schools and readaptation centers
- All types of functional limitations: auditory, intellectual, motor, visual, speech and language impairments and autism spectrum disorders
- 9 sports: athletics, baseball, basketball, boccia, curling, rhythmic gymnastics, hockey, volleyball and soccer
- 1 100 volunteers
- 5 competition sites
- More than 100 partners contributing to its success
“It all starts here”
Once again this year, the Défi sportif AlterGo took on the slogan “It all starts here” and that’s because the event truly is a starting point for athletes, families, volunteers and everyone involved. It’s a gateway to a sporting career, a passion, a dream, a friendship and maybe even a participation in the Paralympic games.
Competitions that moved us
The 2025 edition of the Défi sportif AlterGo marked the grand return of the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship to Québec and to the Défi sportif AlterGo, for the first time since 2019. It was be the 5th edition of this tournament and the 4th to be held at the Défi sportif AlterGo. The event ran from April 28 to May 3 at Boucherville’s the Centre des glaces Gilles-Chabot. A great opportunity to watch the best players in the country in action!
Wheelchair curling isn’t the only sports that made a comeback this year. The Défi sportif AlterGo featured a series of blind hockey matches between Canada and the USA. Blind hockey is a version of hockey for players with a visual impairment using an adapted puck that makes noise and is bigger than a normal puck.
The following weekend, the junior parahockey teams competed in a junior tournament composing of Quebec and Ontario teams.
There was plenty of action at Longueuil’s Centre sportif Édouard-Montpetit from May 2 to May 4 with both powerchair soccer and a wheelchair basketball tournament.
2025’s awaited school component featured a total of 8 sports, including basketball and volleyball competition making a comeback after a two-year forced hiatus due to renovations at Complexe sportif Claude Robillard.
As always, everyone was invited to come watch the competitions and cheer on incredible athletes. It was also a great opportunity to tryout adapted sports and take part in various activities in the entertainment zone at the Complexe sportif Claude Robillard.
About the Défi sportif AlterGo
The Défi sportif AlterGo is Canada’s biggest multi-sport event. With a worldwide reach, it’s the only event bringing athletes, from up-and-comers to elite-level with all types of functional limitations, together since 1984.
The Défi sportif AlterGo is the flagship event of AlterGo Événements, one of the 3 entities of AlterGo, a unifying organization driver of social innovation with universal accessibility at its heart.
The mission of AlterGo Événements goes further than just organizing events. With its various projects also including La Tournée À vos marques! And Dans mon école, the entity aims to:
- Promote physical activity and adapted sport across Quebec all throughout the year.
- Promote an active lifestyle.
- Be an important vector of awareness and social inclusion for young disabled people by reaching out to different networks: elected representatives, volunteers, partners and the general public.
