About the 2025 Edition

The 2025 edition of the Défi sportif AlterGo is coming up fast! From April 25 to May 4, 6000 athletes, from up-and-comers to elite-level, all with a functional limitation will gather in Montreal and on the South shore for the 42nd edition of the Canada’s largest multi-sport event.

“It all starts here”

Once again this year, the Défi sportif AlterGo takes 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.

While waiting for the announcement of our 2025 ambassador athletes and before discovering the stories of this upcoming edition, let’s relive the “It all starts here” from our 41st edition:

“It will always be one of our favourite memories”
The Pelletier Sisters: Boccia Volunteers
It All Starts Here – 30th Défi Sportif AlterGo for Maxime Gagnon

Competitions not to be missed

The 2025 edition of the Défi sportif AlterGo will mark the grand return of the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship to Québec and to the Défi sportif AlterGo, for the first time since 2019. It will be the 5th edition of this tournament and the 4th to be held at the Défi sportif AlterGo. The event will run 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 making a comeback this year. The Défi sportif AlterGo will also be featuring 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. A must-see competition at the Howie-Morenz arena from April 25 to April 27.

Also at the Howie-Morenz arena, the following weekend, the junior parahockey teams will compete in a junior tournament composing of Quebec and Ontario teams.

There will be 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. Two not-not-be-missed events!

This year’s awaited school component will feature a total of 8 sports, including basketball and volleyball competition making a comeback this year after a two-year forced hiatus due to renovations at Complexe sportif Claude Robillard.

As always, everyone is invited to come watch the competitions and cheer on incredible athletes. It’s free! It’s 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.