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Ultimate Canada is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of Ultimate (also known as "Ultimate Frisbee") in Canada. It runs the Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) and Canadian University Ultimate Championship (CUUC) series. Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) Each August, teams from across the country travel to the Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) to compete for the national title in 7 different divisions: ''mixed'', ''open'', ''women's'', ''junior open'', ''junior women'', ''masters open'' and ''masters women''. Teams compete at this seven-day tournament not only to determine the national champion, but also to determine who will represent Canada at the next world championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://canadianultimate.com/index.php/en/championships )〕 Canadian University Ultimate Championships (CUUC) The CUUC started in 1995 and brings university teams from across the country to compete in the open & the women's division. Each fall Ultimate Canada operates two competitions for university Ultimate teams in Canada: the Canadian University Ultimate Championships (CUUC) and the Canadian Eastern University Ultimate Championships (CEUUC). The CEUUC began in 1998 and brings university teams primarily from Ontario and Quebec together to compete in the open & the women's division.〔 ==History== In 2010, the Toronto Ultimate Club released a documentary film, 30 years in 30 minutes,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.iamultimate.com/videos/tuc-30-years-in-30-minutes/ 30 Years in 30 Minutes )〕 that traces the club's history as well as the history of disc ultimate in Canada. Not far removed from the invention of Ultimate in the late 1960s, Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner (the founder and CEO of Discraft) ran the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships (guts, distance and later disc golf, disc freestyle and over-all disc events) in the early 1970s at the Canadian National Exhibition and then later on Toronto Islands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://freestyledisc.org/history.html )〕 They also participated in several Frisbee show tours across Canada for Irwin Toy (Wham-O licensee and Frisbee distributor for Canada). Each year their show tours would end in Vancouver where they would set up the Vancouver Open Frisbee Championships on Kitsilano Beach and Stanley Park (1974-1976). This is where Jim Brown, Bill King and John Anthony of freestyle fame made their first competitive appearances. From these championships and the presence of these touring professional Frisbee players (Westerfield, Kenner, and Bob Blakely of Irwin Toy), Toronto became the hub of Frisbee activity in Canada. In the 1970s, Ken Westerfield introduced disc ultimate north of the 49th parallel at the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships in Toronto and by creating the Toronto Ultimate League (Club).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tuc.org/halloffame-2010 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://torontorush.com/history-of-ultimate )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Toronto Ultimate Club History )〕 Ken Westerfield lived in the Beaches in south east Toronto, this is where he would set up shop, taking his Frisbees down to the beach on a grassy area next to the boardwalk called Kew Beach and would play with whomever wanted to join him. Four of the original ultimate players, Ken Westerfield, Jim Lim, Stuart Godfrey, and Patrick Chartrand and others played a pickup game of ultimate Frisbee one afternoon with Westerfield outlining the rules. For this group it became a regular thing and the group began to grow. In 1979, Westerfield using his local tournament player contact list, started weekly ultimate pick-up games in the Beaches on the same grassy area next to the boardwalk on Wednesday evenings. Christopher Lowcock, introduced to disc sports by his brother Les, became part of this group. Lowcock, Westerfield and the others would recruit more players as they passed by along the boardwalk, Wednesday ultimate pick-up was becoming very popular. In 1980, Westerfield sent team invitations to Wards Island, West End, North Toronto and Westerfield's own team the Beaches,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tuc.org/hall-of-fame/2014 )〕 to join the Toronto Ultimate League. These were the first four teams with each team taking turns hosting the league games at their home locations. The league starting night was at Kew Beach. These were the very first disc ultimate league games in the city of Toronto, the beginning of the Toronto Ultimate League (Club), and the first ultimate league in Canada. The Toronto Ultimate League developed into the Toronto Ultimate Club (TUC), that now has 3300 active members and over 250 Teams playing the year round.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Toronto Ultimate Club History )〕 The first Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) were held, for the open division, in Ottawa 1987, produced by Marcus Brady and Brian Guthrie. OCUA subsequently hosted the 1993, 1999, 2002 and 2011 Canadian Ultimate Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ocua.ca/ultimate-2008-hall-of-fame )〕 Canada has been ranked number one in the Ultimate World Rankings several times since 1998 in all the Ultimate Divisions (including Open and Women's) according to the World Flying Disc Federation. In 2013, as a founding partner, the Toronto Ultimate Club presented Canada's first semi-professional Ultimate team, the Toronto Rush, to the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). They went undefeated 18-0 and won the AUDL Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.torontorush.com/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://torontor.wwwss6.a2hosted.com/partners/founding-partners/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://torontor.wwwss6.a2hosted.com/fan-zone/what-is-ultimate/ )〕 In 2014, the Montreal Royal and the Vancouver Riptide joined the AUDL. In 2015, the Ottawa Outlaws became the fourth Canadian team to compete in the AUDL, of 26 teams in total. In 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted full recognition to the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) for flying disc sports including ultimate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ultimate Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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