Sanction Your Race

One of the important services Snowshoe Canada offers is the sanctioning of events. We are able to sanction a wide variety of events from simple non competitive grass roots to Canadian championships.

As the governing body for the sports in Canada we provide this service to help event organizer stage their event in a professional manner and attract more registrations. The advantages of sanctioning your event with Snowshoe Canada are as follows:

Marketing Support

Race directors who sanction with Snowshoe Canada receive full marketing support from Snowshoe Canada including articles on the web site, and various sports and outdoor magazines, press releases to local and national media. Our events page on the web site will list your event and date along with a link to your registration page. We also issue a regular newsletter to our mailing list. Articles about you event will be included in the newsletter.

In addition we have an active Facebook and Twitter page which we regular update with new information. Our track record for marketing events is quite good. Event organizers generally see a 20% -30% increase in attendance once we engage our marketing program.

Officials Certification

In order stage an event that is managed on a professional level it is important to have someone on site that is trained in the rules and can oversee the event safety, race timing, finishers results and awards ceremony. Snowshoe Canada provides an officials certification course which can be taken on line. The course was developed by the World Snowshoe Federation. It is highly recommended that you have at least one Snowshoe Canada race official on hand for your event. The link to the Official Certification course shown below.

Snowshoe Canada Championship Titles

 The awarding of championship titles is another benefit of sanctioning with Snowshoe Canada.  The championship titles serve as a marketing tool which the event organizer can use to increase attendance, attract sponsors and assist in getting approvals from local venue operators, municipalities and various other stakeholders.

The awarding of titles is done well in advance of the race date to provide plenty of time to get the full benefit of the marketing campaign. The application for a Championship Title is done during the completion of the sanctioning application.

Sanctioning Fees

We have kept our sanction fees modest in order to maximize the event director’s return on investment with Snowshoe Canada. Fees start at $60.00 + $1/ athlete for non competitive event to $325.00 + $3.00 / athlete for a Canadian Championship. Generally we have found that the benefits of sanctioning with Snowshoe Canada more than make up for the sanction fee. As a bench mark you can expect to receive a 2x increase in revenue over and above the cost of sanctioning. A more detailed explanation of fees is included in the sanction form.

Additional Championship Titles

Snowshoe Canada is affiliated with the World Snowshoe Federation which serves as the national governing body of Snowshoeing on a global basis.

This organization has two championship titles which they award annually.

The North American Championship

This awarded to Canada and the USA on a rotating basis. The title is granted up to one year in advance. A sanction form must be completed and approved along with the appropriate fee deposit.

The title is awarded to the national governing of the country applying for the title and in turn the national body appoints a race director to operate the event.

The World Championship

This is also awarded on an annual basis and is granted up to one year in advance with the completion of the appropriate WSSF sanction form and fee deposit. This title is also granted to the national governing body for the country applying for the event. Snowshoe Canada would appoint a race director to operate the event.

Officials Certification Course

Sanctioning Application