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Archery
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Lisa Bertoncini |
She has been on target with her sport of archery since she
competed for her school, Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario, winning gold
medals at the provincial level in both the individual and team competitions
in 1977 and 1978. She was Female Athlete of the year twice and won the
outstanding Dr. Mitminger Award from Mohawk College in 1978. She is also a
member of The Mohawk College Sports Hall of Fame. At the Ontario Association
of Archers she won four womens ladies Ontario Championship titles in 1977,
1983, 1984 and 1985. She competed at the national level for nine years and
won the women’s Canadian Championship title in 1984 and 1985. Representing
Canada at the World field Championships Lisa took the Women’s World Champion
title in both 1984 and the World Games title in 1985. She was named to the
Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. She has done some coaching at
the national level of the sport since leaving the competative field.. |
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Lucille Lessard. |
Born 1957. Introduced to the sport of archery by
her schoolteachers she became a devoted competitor. She won her first
national championship in 1974 and successfully defended her title five
times. In 1974 she became the first Canadian to wing the World Field Archery
Championship, she was the youngest world Champion up to this point in time. |
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Dorothy Lidstone. |
Born August 16, 1938. She enjoyed learning
her sport of archery. She excelled and became the first Canadian World
Champion in Archery in 1969. Her winning score broke the previous record set
in 1963 by 100 points. Dorothy has retired from competitive archery but was
an active support in setting up the family archery business that included
designing, developing, and manufacturing Canadian made archery equipment.
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Milaine Clouthier. |
Born February 16,1972. Her
brother brought her to a badminton game when she was 9. She was told that
girls couldn't beat guys. That did it! She was hooked! She outplayed them
all! By 1995 she had won a bronze medal in the Pan American Games, and in
1997 she won Pan Am gold in the doubles event. |
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Robbyn Hermitage |
Born Montreal, Quebec April 22, 1970. A badminton player of
talent, Robbyn has 10 national badminton championship titles to her credit.
She has twice represented Canada on teams at both the Commonwealth Games and
the Pan American Games. She was also a part of team Canada at the 2000
Sydney Olympic Games. Currently she lives in London , Ontario where she is
caring for her family of two toddlers. Watch for her in the future on the
courts though, for she intends to get re-involved once again in the sport
that has given her so much!. |
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Denyse Julien. |
Born June 22, 1960. Her
passion is badminton. She has been enthusiastic about her sport since she
was 12 years old. She represented Canada on the Olympic team in 1992 and
1996. She was National singles Champion in 1993, Badminton's Athlete of the
year in 1995 when she won 3 gold medals in the Pan American games. She has
held several Canadian National title over the years but feels her biggest
accomplishment is still being enthusiastic about her sport. |
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Marjory Shedd. |
Born March 17, 1926. Marjory
won her first Canadian Badminton Championship in 1953. In total she has won
6 national singles titles, 5 mixed and 14 ladies doubles titles. She also
excels in volleyball and basketball. She flexed her coaching skills when she
was coach to the University of Toronto volleyball team. |
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Dorothy Louise Walton. |
(née McKenzie) Born
Swift Current, Saskatchewan August 7, 1909. Died October 17, 1981. Prior to 1932 she
was a top ranked tennis player in Canada. After 1932 she switched to Badminton
and became one of Canada’s best. After conquering the provincial and national
titles in Canada she captured the All-England title that is equivalent to the
world amateur championship. In 1950 she was voted one of the top 6 women athletes
in Canada in the Canadian Press Poll. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall
of Fame. In the 1950's she was a well known member of the Consumers Association
of Canada. |
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Jane Marie Youngberg |
Born Alysbury, England. December 25, 1948.She
studied for her Bachelor of Education at the University of British Columbia
and followed her heart to become a teacher. As a teen she loved badminton
and at 15, with her partner Sue Latournier won the 1965 Doubles title. In
1967-8 she and Barbara Nash won the Canadian Ladies Junior Doubles
championship. And she and Barb Welsh took Canadian Ladies open and closed
doubles championships in 1974 & 1975. On the international scene there were
wins at the Canadian Uber Cup, Jakarta Indonesia 1972, 1975 and won at the
Commonwealth Games , the all-England singles in 1977. She continues to love
teaching. She and her husband Ed spent three months in 2005 in Africa with
the African Canadian Continuing Education Society ( acceskenya.org) training
staff to better education of children of Kenya. |
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Basketball |
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Ruth Wilson |
Born Calgary, Alberta. April 27, 1919. Died 2001. Her family moved to
British Columbia where the youth was encouraged by her mother to play
tennis. Winning the provincial doubles, mixed doubles and Pacific Northwest
Doubles championships did not however keep her interest in the sport. She
attended the University of British Columbia and went on to earn her Masters
in education at Western Washington State College. She enjoyed varsity
basketball and went on to play on 5 national championship basketball teams
in the 1940”s. As a coach in the sport she founded the Eilers and the team
won the 1950-51 senior “A” title. In 1967 she was the coach of the Pan Am
Games Team that won Canada’s first medal, a bronze. In 1973 her Buzz Bomb
team were also national title holders. In total her basketball coaching
career spanned 35 years. She also enjoyed softball and played in two women’s
world series. As a golfer she played on eight Interprovincial teams and won
the Canadian title four times as well as playing internationally. She has
been inducted into the UBC and the British Columbia Sports halls of Fame.
She is considered British Columbia’s greatest all round female athelete.
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Sherry Ann Boudreau |
Born Victoria British Columbia March 25.
Growing up in Richmond, British Columbia she enjoyed being both a Brownie
and a Girl Guide. Sherry Ann completed her studies in cosmetology and is also certified in
aerobics and weight training. After the birth of her second child she
decided to become competitive in fitness events. She has worked her way to
first place in international events. In 2004 she was competing successfully
in body building events at the international levels!!! She is in the
process of writing a book called : Start Today, Tomorrow Never Comes. She
hopes it will inspire all who will read it. Sherry Ann loves a challenge and
feels it is so much fun staying health, find and positive. If you search for
her name on the internet you will find her personal web page. |
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Bowling
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Cathy Townsend. |
Born June 8, 1937. In 1975 she was the first
Canadian woman to win the Bowling Cup. During her trip to these world games
her equipment and clothing were lost in transit and she had to obtain a new
bowling ball and special shoes required for a left handed bowler! She is a
member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Jessica Rakoczy |
Born Hamilton Ontario April 14, 1977. In high school she was
active in many competitive sports including hockey, baseball, soccer, track
and swimming and was twice elected athlete of the year. At 20 she too up
amateur boxing and went on to take the Ontario provincial bantamweight
title. Her tryouts for the Canadian national team seemed prone to misfortune
as a serious accident and broken bones kept her from the team. She made her
professional debut on October 21, 2000 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S.A.
By spring 2005 she has had 20 professional fights with a 19-1 win record and
holds the world lightweight championship. |
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Curling
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Marilyn C. Bodough. |
Born March 9, 1955. A business woman who
managers her own lumber yard and has owned several businesses including a
funeral home and flower business. She is a well known motivational speaker.
In her spare time she found time to be a member of the 1996 Canadian and
World Championship Curling teams. She has also co-authored a book on the
sport of curling. She is a member of the St Catherines Ontario Hall of
Fame. |
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Sandra Schmirler |
Born
Biggar, Saskatchewan June 11, 1963. Died March 2, 2000. Curling was her
passion. She was a three time Canadian and World Champion. The
Schmirler team worked as a real sisterhood and dominated their sport for 6
years. In 1998 Schmirler led her foursome, Joan McCuster, Jan
Betker, Marcia Gudereit and Atina Ford to
the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's curling. She and
her team are members of the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and she is a
member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Cycling
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Tanya Dubincoff |
Born Winnipeg, Manitoba November 7, 1969. At four years of
age she took the training wheels from her bicycle. She has won the Canadian
National track cycling championship 16 times! She has won four gold medals
at the Pan Am Games and has represented Canada in 3 Olympics. She was
personally disappointed in her effort placement in Sydney's Olympics but she
knew that retirement from competition was her future. In 1993 she was the
first Canadian woman to win a cycling world championship and in that same
year was first in World Cup standings. Tanya has since opened her own café,
the Sugar Gallery Café and she has taken a position with The Olympic Oval in
Calgary. She uses her communications skills and acts as a bridge between
athletes and the media. What she gets most satisfaction from, however, is
training young cyclists. |
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Clara Hughes. |
Born
September 27, 1972. Clara is a dynamo on wheels. This cyclist holds 13 Canadian National titles.
She as silver and bronze medals from the 1991 and 1995 Pan American Games; a silver
medal from the 1994 Commonwealth Games; a silver medal from the 1995 World Championships.
In the 1996 Olympics she won 2 bronze medals which were Canada's first cycling
medals in 100 years! |
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Linda Jackson. |
Born Winnipeg, Manitoba
November 13, 1961. She enjoyed music as a child
and studied music and theatre at the Banff School of Fine Art and
after making her opera debut in 1982 transferred to the schools opera
program. She launched her career at the San Francisco Opera, made
her European debut in 1987and appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in
1991. She has made several recordings. |
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Genevieve Jeanson |
Born Lachine, Quebec August 29, 1981. She
began an interest in cycling in 1993. In 199 she became the first Canadian
to win the Junior World Championship time trial and then won the road race
itself. She has over 14 top titles to her credit. In her mid twenties she
has the courage and determination to continue appearing in the winners
circle in the future. |
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Lori-Ann Munenzer |
Born Toronto, Ontario May 21, 1966.
Although at 5’10” she is the shortest in her family it was
never a drawback. It seems she was always on her bicycle. In 1987 she began
Road Racing at the Toronto Cycling Club. In 1994 she embraced Veledrome
Racing and became a member of the National Cycling Team. She has accumulated
13 National titles and 11 World Cup medals during her career. She has also
earned medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 & 2002. She made her debut at
the Olympics in 200. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 she became the
first Canadian to win a gold medal in Cycling. Selected as the Canada’s
Female Athelete of the year in 2004 she was also the 2005 winner of the Lois
E. Hole Lifetime Achievement Award from the YWCA. After the 2004 Games she
began her own business called Pure Momentum which seeks to find and promote
a community of female speakers. She has published her own biography and a
documentary both called One Gear, No Breaks. Nomination and
Information submitted by Wayne Mackenzie. |
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Diving
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| Sylvie Bernier |
Born
Quebec City, Quebec January 31, 1964. Sylvie was the first Canadian to win a
medal in Olympic Diving. She won the gold in the 3-meter springboard diving
in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Canadian Sports
Hall of Fame. |
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Beverly Boys. |
Born July 4, 1951. For 10
years (1966-77) this diver won 34 Canadian championships in springboard and
platform competition. She holds gold medals from Commonwealth Games and was
a member of three Canadian Olympic teams. She is a member of the Canadian
Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Anne-Josée Dionne. |
Born
October 26, 1975. A member of the Canadian National Diving Team, Anne-Josée has been 9 times
National Champion (in various age groups). She has also won medals at international
events. In 1993 she earned 3 gold medals at the Canada Games. In her
spare time she enjoys photography, movies, and camping. |
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Irene Margaret MacDonald. |
Born November 22, 1933. Brought up in an
orphanage in Hamilton, Ontario she reigned as Canada’s champion diver from
1951-1961. She won medals at the 1954 and 1958 Commonwealth Games and in
1956 she won Canada’s first Olympic diving medal, a bronze. She became a
dedicated administrative supporter to the Canadian Diving fraternity. She is
a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, 1981, received the Order of
British Columbia in 1991, was Female Athlete of the Year 1958, and won the
YWCA Woman of Distinction for sport in 1998. The Irene MacDonald Fund was
established for the support of children in diving. |
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Anne Montminy |
Born January 28, 1975. A member
of the national Canadian Diving Team, Anne has won 19 international medals
to date. She won the gold medal in the Junior World Championships and she
is the Canadian record holder in Women's Platform Diving. |
| Peggy Seller |
Born
January 22, 1904. This Montreal athlete began her interest in sport by
competing in track and hold provincial titles in javelin, broad jump and
running relays. She also excelled in swimming and diving, holding the
national record for the 3 meter diving championship. Perhaps her legacy is
better shown in her writings of the rules of synchronized swimming. |
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Equestrian
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Gail Greenough. |
Born Edmonton, Alberta July 13, 1960. She took
up equestrian sports at age 11. She joined the Canadian Equestrian Team in
1983 and in 1986 became the first Canadian and first woman to win the world
show jumping championships. She is a member of the Order of Canada. |
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Beth Underhill. |
Born Guelph, Ontario September5, 1962. In 1991
this equestrian jumper won a double sliver medal at the Pan American Game.
She also rode for the Canadian team which won an Olympic Silver Medal at
Barcelona, Spain. In 1993 she was the first woman to win the Canadian World
League. Her favourite jumping horse partner was named Monopoly, with who she
won over one million in prize money!! |
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Figure Skating
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Isabelle Brasseur. |
Born July 28, 1970. Isabelle
and her partner Lloyd Eisler are one of Canada’s finest pairs figure skating
teams. . They hold 5 Canadian Championships, 5 World Championship medals,
and 2 Olympic Bronze medals. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of
Fame. |
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Ellen Burka. |
Born August 11, 1921. A coach of renown
she has seen her efforts crowned at 26 Canadian Olympic and World Championships
when her pupils have received medals. Her
own daughter Petra Burka was one of her winners. Both family members are members
of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Petra Burka. |
Born Amsterdam, The Netherlands November 17,
1946. At the age of 15 she became the first Canadian to complete the triple
salchow jump in competition. .1965 she won the Canadian, North American and
world championships and was the Canadian athlete of the year. |
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Josée Chouinard. |
Born
August 21, 1969. She was 3 times Canadian figure
skating champion. She turned professional
n 1994 and won the Canadian Professional Championships that same year and again
in 1997. She is an ambassador for
the Heart & Stroke Foundation. She married Jean-Michel Bombardier in 1997. |
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Frances Dafoe. |
Born
December 17, 1929 This 1948 Canadian Junior ladies figure skating champion
became paired with Norris Bowden the 1947 men’s singles champion to
compete in the 1952 Olympics. By 1954 they were the first Canadians
to be World Pairs Champions. At the 1955 Olympics they won the silver
medal. Frances retired to a successful fashion deign career specializing
in figure skating costumes and continues to be an international skating
judge. She is a member
of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Maria Jelinek. |
Born November 17, 1942. In 1950 the
brother and sister pair of Otto and Maria Jelinek decided to figure
skate seriously. In 1962 they won the World’s Pairs figure skating
title. In 1955 they
won the Canadian Pairs title and came second at the senior level in
1956-57-58 and 1960. In 1961 and 62 they were Canadian Champions and
were silver medalists at the worlds. |
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Karen Diane Magnussen. |
Born North Vancouver, British
Columbia April 4,1952. A accomplished free-skating performer, Karen was
Canadian champion in 1968. She withdrew from 1969 world championships
because of stress fractures in both legs but returned to become Canadian
champion 1970-1973 and world champion in 1973. The doll that was made and
sold as the Karen Magnussen doll did not have any of the characteristics of
the determined young athlete.
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Elizabeth Manley. |
Born Belleville, Ontario August 7, 1965. Canada's top female skater in
1987 and 1988 she would win the hearts of her home country at the 1988
Olympics in Calgary with a silver medal. Her home is Gloucester (Ottawa)
Ontario where they have named an arena after her. She continues to
skate professionally and packs the arenas wherever she goes in Canada. She
is known as the tiny skater with the big heart. (Check out the paper
dolls in the Famous Canadian Women pages). |
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Jennifer Lee Robinson. |
Born Goderich, Ontario
December 2, 1976. Figure
skating is her first love. Her heroine was skater Elizabeth Manly.
She won the Canadian Junior Championship in 1994. In 1996 she won
her first Canadian Senior Championship title. She has been Canadian
ladies figure skating champion 6 times. Check out her official web
site: http://skatinginc.com/Skaters/Robinson/ |
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Barbara Anne Scott. |
Born Ottawa,
Ontario May 9, 1928. One of Canada’s best remembered, Barbara won the gold
medal in figure skating in the Olympic Games of 1948 on an outdoor rink in
St Moritz, Switzerland. The Barbara Anne Scott doll that came out shortly
after the games did not really look too much like the young skater but it is
today a very highly prized collectors item.
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Sandra Tewksbury |
Born
Chatham,
Ontario
1942 (?) Died June 1962. At nine years of age she joined the Chatham Figure
Skating Club and was recognized as a talent. At 11, she was the youngest
skater to win the Canadian Figure Skating Silver Dance Medal. In 1959 she
was very busy, placing third in the Canadian Figure Skating Championships
and 5th in the North American Championships and then being first
in the trial for the Olympic Games. She placed 10th overall in
the women’s figure skate at the Squaw Valley Olympics. Shortly after she was
married, Sandra Tewksbury Ritchie died in an automobile accident when she
was 20 years old.
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Barbara Ann Underhill. |
Born
Pembroke, Ontario June 24, 1963. With her skating partner, Paul Martini she
would win five consecutive Canadian Pairs Championships. In 1984 they won
the World Championships on home ice in Ottawa. They turned professional and
worked with Ice Capades after their amateur successes. They are both members
of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Barbara Aileen Wagner. |
Born Toronto,
Ontario May 5, 1938. She and Robert Wagner formed one of Canada’s most
successful figure skating pairs. They began skating in 1952 and in 1957 won
the Canadian, American and World Championships. So spectacular was their
gold medal routine at the 1960 Olympics that 7 judges ranked them first
place. This was the first time that the gold had gone to non-European pair
skaters. They are both members of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Florence Harvey |
Born Hamilton, Ontario 1878. Died 1968. She excelled in her
sport of Golf as a competitor and gave back to it her energies to help the
sport evolve for women in Canada. She was Ontario Ladies Amateur Champion
1904, 1906, 1913, and 1914. She was also Canadian Ladies Champion in 1903
and 1904 and placed as runner up in both 1911 and 1913. She was a great
advocate of her sport. She founded and served on the executive of the
Canadian Ladies Golf Union, now known as the Canadian Ladies Golf
Association. During World War I she organized women golfers to raise money
to purchase an ambulance to be used in Serbia. She is a member of Canada's
Golf Hall of Fame. |
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Ada Mackenzie |
Born
Toronto, Ontario October 31, 1891. Died October 25, 1973. She would win the
Ontario Ladies Amateur Golf title 9 times and the Canadian Ladies Open Amateur
title 5 times. In 1933 she was declared the Canadian Athlete of the Year.
She would open a ladies only golf club in Thornhill, Ontario in May 1925.
This sporting pioneer with her club and her leading titles would make ladies
golf a sport to be taken seriously. |
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Sandra Post. |
Born Oakville, Ontario June 4, 1948. She became
Canada’s first woman professional golfer in 1968 and won the Ladies
Professional Golf Association Championship at Sutton Massachusetts that same
year. In 1979 she was Canada’s Athlete of the Year. In 2004 Sandra became a
Member of the Order of Canada. |
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Judy Sams. |
Born Toronto, Ontario October 7, 1947. Canadian
amateur-of-the-year in 1980 this Ontario Athlete is best known on the golf
course. |
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Marlene Streit. |
(née Stewart) Born Cereal, Alberta March 9,
1934.
A powerful
golfer she would win the Canadian ladies champion title 11 times between
1951 and 1973. She was the Canadian Female Athlete of the Year in 1951 and
1956. In 1967 she was inducted as an officer in the Order of Canada. During
her golfing career she would win 24 Canadian Ladies Golf Association
Championships and by 2003 she had a career total of 30 national or
international championships with at least one championship each decade .
She claimed her third U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur in 2003,
the oldest person to ever triumph in that event.
She is the only person to have won the Australian, British, Canadian and
United States womens’ amateur championships! She is a member of the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and in 2004 she became the first Canadian
member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. |
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Gymnastics |
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Ernestine Russell Weaver |
née Russell. Born Windsor, Ontario, June 10, 1938.
At 16 she won
the Velma Springstead Award as Canada’s Outstanding Woman Athlete of the
Year for 1953. She would win again in 1954 and 1955. At 18 she was the first
Canadian woman to participate in gymnastics in the 1956 Games in Melborne,
Australia. In 1959 when gymnastics were introduced to the Pan American Games
she dominated the field by winning four gold and two silver medals. She also
held nine Canadian Championship titles. After retiring from competition she
turned to coaching gymnastics at the college level in Pennsylvania and
Florida. She has also written several books on her beloved sport and been
coach to the US world gymnastic team. In 1981 she was inducted into the
Windsor/Essex County Sports Hall of Fame.
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Hockey
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Lori Dupuis |
Born
Cornwall,
Ontario
November 14, 1972. Lori always enjoyed playing hockey and played
Minor hockey in Cornwall She attended the
University of
Toronto and earned an honours BA in French and geography. While studying she
played hockey for the University of Toronto Blues 1991-1997 and was U of T’s
Female Athlete of the Year 1996 and 1997. Considered one of the best women
hockey players in the world she joined Team Canada in the mid 1990’s. She
has played with the team as it won three world championships in 1997, 1999
and 2000. She played on two Olympic teams for Canada , the sliver medal team
in 1998 and the gold medal team of 2000. She runs a hockey school with
teammate Jayna Hefford in
Brantford,
Ontario. She was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in both Cornwall and
Brantford. |
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Manon Rhéaume. |
Born Lac Beauport, Quebec February 24, 1972.
The daughter of a hockey coach, she began to play at the age of 5 years. She
loved hockey and played well. She was the first girl to play in the Annual
Quebec Peewee Hockey Tournament. She went on to become the first woman to
play professionally. She was goalie with the Tampa Bay Lightening of the
National Hockey League. If you want the whole story read Manon: alone
in front of the net. She is still active in her sport today
teaching young girls how to play the sport she loves. Her web site is
located at; http://manonrheaume.com
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France St Louis. |
Born October 17, 1958. A member of the
Canadian Women’s Hockey team since 1990, she was a member of the silver medal
team at the 1998 Olympic games in Nagano, Japan. |
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Haley Wickenheiser. |
Born
Shaunavon, Saskatchewan December 8, 1978. Team sports are her favourite. She
played in competition in the World Junior Softball Championships in 1995.
Then it was hockey. She played with a gold medal team at the 1997-99 World
hockey Championships and the silver medal team at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
She was invited to play with the Philadelphia Flyers training camp which she
found a great opportunity to learn at the NHL level. She has done studies
science and the University of Calgary and was the first woman to have
accepted a contract to play hockey on a men's team. She played her sport of
hockey in Finland. |
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Judo
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Michelle Buckingham |
Born Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. September 1, 1968. She
loves her sport of Judo. She has been Canadian Champion 7 times and competed
with team Canada in three Olympics. The fact that Olympic medals have eluded
her have not dampened her competitive spirit. She has been in the tope
medals , including gold, in both the Pan American Games and the Pan American
Championships since 1997. She has been first in the US Open competition in
2001 and 2002. She shares her love, dedication and knowledge of her sport
with up and coming competitors in and elementary after school programme when
she is at home. |
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Kayak and canoe
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Caroline Brunet. |
Born March 20, 1969. In March
1998, Caroline became the recipient of the Velma Springstead Award to become
Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year. Her recognition began in
1995 when she won a gold and 2 silver medals at the World Championships. In
Atlanta's Olympic Games in 1997 she claimed the silver medal. She swept the
World Sprint Canoe Championships in 1997 when she won three gold medals
which represented "a best ever" Canadian Kayak team performance. She gold
medal also represented a first for a Canadian woman in a singles event. She
also won a medal in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. |
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Mountain Biking
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Alison Sydor |
Born Edmonton, Alberta. 1966. A graduate of the University of
Victoria, she has also found time for her love of sport, especially riding
her mountain bike. She is considered one of Canada's most accomplished women
mountain biker and a tough competitive athlete. She has dominated her sport
both at the national and international level with gold medals in World
championships in 1994, 1995 and 2002. She places second at the world level
championships in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003. In 1996 she won silver at the
Olympics as was the Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year and World
Cyclist of the year from the Velo News. In 1998 she ran the last part of a
race with her broken bicycle on her back to cross the finish line! Today she
works for her sport through a kids ride program in North Vancouver. |
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Mountaineering
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Phyllis Munday. |
(née Jarnes) Born 1894. Died 1990. This woman
has a mountain named for herself and her husband Don. Mount Munday is the
highest peak in the Waddington Range of the Canadian Rockies. A competent
climber she and Annette Buck in 1924 became the first women to reach the
summit of Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. While she
would enjoy climbing more than 100 peaks in the Rockies she was more than a
mountaineer. She was a scientist, cartographer, naturalist, humanitarian and
adventurer. In 1973 she received the Order of Canada for her pioneering
efforts in these fields and for her dedicated service to the Girl Guides,
St. Johns Ambulance and the Alpine Club of Canada. In 1992, Canada Post
issued a stamp with Phyllis Munday on it as part of its Legendary Canadians
series. |
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Henrietta "Hettie" Tuzo Wilson |
née Tuzo. Born Victoria, British Columbia May 6, 1873. Died
January 11, 1955. She was the first Canadian born woman mountaineer. A
founding member of the Alpine Club of Canada she had a real passion for
climbing. In 1906 she was the first woman to ascend Peak seven of the Valley
of the Ten Peaks near Moraine Lake and bordering the provinces of
British Columbia and Alberta. . in 1907 Peak Seven was renamed Mount Tuzo
in her honour. She stopped climbing in 1907 when she was 34 years old. She
moved to Ottawa with her husband to raise their family. In 1928 she was
elected president of the National Council of Women, still climbing the
mountains set up in front of women by society. John Tuzo Wilson, her son
became a well known Canadian geologist in the area of continental drift and
plat tectonics. |
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Sharon Adele Wood. |
Born Halifax, Nova Scotia May 18, 1957. One
might say mountaineering is in her blood. In the spring of 1986 she became
the first woman from the Western hemisphere to stand on top of the world on
Mt. Everest. She was 17 years old!!! On a smaller scale she was part of an
all woman team to navigate to the top of Mt. Logan. She enjoys teacher her
sport to others when she is not working as a helicopter ski guide. |
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Rhythmic Gymnastics
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Lori Fung |
Born Vancouver, British Columbia February 21,
1963. She has a passion for her Rhythmic Gymnastics. She started at the
British Columbia Rythmicka Club. She was an able student and a good
listener. These talents paid off when in 1983 she became Canadian Champion
and later that same year the Four Continents Gold medalist . She would
during her competative career be Grand Champion of Canada seven times. To
the media she was a relative unknown contender, yet she won gold at the 1984
Los Angeles Olympics when the sport was inaugurated into the Olympic Games.
Retired from competition, she remains a valued coach in her
sport. She also works for Canadian charities in such positions as
Chairperson of the Canadian Cancer Society. She is a recipient of the Order
of Canada and a member of Canada's Sport Hall of Fame. |
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Ringette
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Agnes Jacks |
Died April 1, 2005. In 1963 her husband introduced the sport
of Ringette in a school in North Bay, Ontario. After his death in 1975,
Agnes poured her heart an soul into the sport. She became a true 'mother of
the sport'. She promoted the sport, often travelling across the country to
tournaments. She took great pride in the sport and the participants as she
handed out the top medals. She also became an overseas ambassador for the
sport. She was recognized with the Order of Canada and the Queen's Golden
Jubilee Medal for her contributions to women's sport. |
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Silken Laumann. |
Born
November 14, 1954. At
the age of 19 she had won a bonze medal in the double rowing event
at the Los Angeles Olympics. She would be in the hearts of many
Canadians, when she suffered a severe leg injury in a rowing
accident while practicing for the 1992 Olympics. With little
time remaining until her event, she trained with a special brace on
her leg and, with the perseverance of a real winner, she went
on to win the bronze medal in singles rowing in the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics! She was Canada's Female athlete of the year in 1991 and
1992 and she was also declared Canada's Outstanding Athlete in 1991.
She retired shortly after winning a silver medal in the 1996 Olympics.
She works as a promotional speaker to help people overcome obstacles
in their lives. She is also a devoted mother. |
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Theresa Anne Luke. |
Born
February 20, 1967. She has completed her studies at the University of
Victoria where she holds a B.Sc. She is a full-time coach and athlete who is
looking into a possible sports-related career. As a member of the Canadian
Olympic Rowing Team she won a silver medal in the 1996 Atlantic City Olympic
Games. |
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Marnie McBean |
Toronto, Ontario January 28, 1968 Although at 5'10" tall she
was not considered tall enough for competitive rowing there is no measure of
the ingrained competitive spirit. As a teen, Marnie became interested in
rowing. She has bee 4 times an Olympic medalist including double gold medal.
She is the first rower to win a medal in every rowing event…Olympic, world
championships while competing in 6 different boats! She is a member of the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. She is as passionate about her charity work as
she is about her sport and works hard to help such foundations as the Kids
Help Phone and the Special Olympics. |
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Anna Van Der Kamp. |
Born Abbotsford, British
Columbia June 20, 1972. This young athlete competed for Canada in the 1996
Atlanta Olympic Games in rowing where she earned a silver medal. She gained
prominence in her sport in 1993 when she was Female Crew of the Year. |
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Emma Robinson. |
Born
November 26, 1971. This athlete is a member of the Canadian Olympic Rowing
team. In the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, she won a silver medal.
She had worked her way to the Olympics with participation and recognition
in international regattas, U.S. Championships, World University Games
and World Championships. While participating in her beloved sport
she also was a Canada Scholar 1990-1994 and the winner of the Petro
Canada Olympic Torch Scholarship 1995. She won a bronze medal in the
2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She pulls her weight with her
medical studies and her sport! |
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Susan Nattrass. |
Born Medicine Hat, Alberta November 5, 1950. She
was taught to shoot by her father when she was 17 and by 19 she defeated
1300 men at an international shoot in Nevada! In the 1976 Olympics in
Montreal she was the only woman entered in the trap shooting event. In the
1990 Commonwealth Games she became the first woman to be entered in a
shotgun event. She has set 4 world records and has been World Champion on 7
occasions. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Linda Thom. |
Born
Hamilton, Ontario December 30, 1943. She is a strong and highly motivated
Olympic medalist. She first became interested in shooting as a child, when
she learned the basics of the sport from her shooting enthusiast father. She
successfully entered pistol competitions in 1969. By the mid 1970's she
concentrated on her career as a chef and on family life. She took up the
challenge of shooting again when it was announced that women would compete
in this event in the Olympic Games. Her pistol individual gold medal in the
1984 Los Angeles games was the first for a Canadian women and the first gold
medal for a Canadian woman since 1928. Linda felt that the Gold Medal
belonged to all the people of Canada, and she carried it with here wherever
she went so that people could see and touch the medal for themselves. Linda
is the first pistol shooter included into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
She is also a member of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian
Amateur Sports Hall of Fame. In 1985 she received the Order of Canada. |
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Myriam Bedard. |
Born
December 22, 1969.
While with cadets she took up
biathlon and entered her first competition on rented skis. In 1991 she was
the first Canadian to win a World Cup in Biathlon. She won a bronze medal in
the Olympic games in 1992 when women's biathlon was a demonstration sport
The next year it was a a gold at the World Championship. She went n to win
gold for the 7.5 km inaugural event, and a gold in the 15 km event at the
1994 Lillehammer Olympics. She was the first non-European to win gold in
Biathlon. She received the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s outstanding athlete
in 1994. She is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Betsey Clifford. |
Born Old Chelsea, Quebec October 15, 1953. Betsey began skiing at Camp Fortune at age 5.
At 12 she was Canadian Junior Champion. She became the youngest ever world
ski champion in 1970. How old was
she? |
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Laurie Graham. |
Born March
30, 1960. Ski racing since the age of 9, Laurie Graham made the national Ski
team in 1978. The 1985-86 season was her most successful. She recorded two
World Cup Downhill victories along with 2 second and 3 third place
finishes. The winner of a total of 6 World Cup races Graham retired after
an eleven-year career. |
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Nancy Greene. |
Born Ottawa,
Ontario May 11, 1943. A skier of determination, Nancy won the 1967 World Cup
and dominated the racing scene the next year as well winning a gold medal in
the giant slalom and a silver medal in the slalom at the Olympic games as
well as her second World Cup. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1967
and named Athlete of the year in 1968. She is a member of the Canadian
Sports hall of Fame.
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| Anne Heggtveit |
Born
Ottawa, Ontario January 11,1939. A member of a skiing family, Anne, came to
international attention at the age of 15 when she won the 1954 Holmenkollen
Giant Slalom event in Norway, the youngest winner in the events’ 50 year
history. At the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics she won an Olympic Gold Medal
for Canada. In that same year she won the giant slalom and combined women’s
alpine titles the 1st time ever by a non European. |
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Sue Holloway . |
Born May 19, 1955. Sue was a four time Olympian
competing in 1976 in Cross Country Skiing and Kayak, 1980 and Kayak again in
1984 where she took Silver and Bronze medals. Although Canada withdrew from
the Moscow Olympics in 1980 she was the appointed Olympic flag bearer. She
was the first Canadian woman to ever compete in both winter and summer
Olympic Games in the same year. She and her husband, former Olympian Greg
Joy, now work together as motivational speakers. |
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Claudia Kerckhoff-van Wijk |
She proved herself a
worthy competitor in a male dominated sport. She held the Canadian Women’s
Whitewater Kayaking Championship position for an entire decade from
1974-1984. She was the first woman and the youngest competitor to
participate in the grueling ten sections of the Coureurs des bois gold
category in the Canadian Ski
Marathon.
She now owns and operates
Madawaska Kanu Centre which is the first kayak and canoe school in North
America. |
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Kathy Kreiner. |
Born Timmons,
Ontario May 4, 1957. In 1974 she won the gold medal in the Skiing World Cup
giant slalom and two years later at her second Olympics she captured the
gold medal in the giant slalom event. In 1976 she was named Canada’s
outstanding female athlete of the year and was inducted into the Canadian
Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Lucie Laroche. |
Born
October 23, 1968. Her youthful love of skiing led her to become a member of a group
of freestyle skiers known as the "Quebec Air Force". |
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Kerrin Lee-Gartner. |
Born Rossland, British Columbia September 21,
1966. She grew up in Rossland B.C. and became a member of the elite group of
skiers to hold an Olympic Gold medal. This medal was the first in history
for a Canadian (male or female) on the downhill event in an Olympic games. |
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Karen Percy. |
Born October 10, 1966. At the 1988 Calgary
Olympic Games she became the first skier in 20 years to win two Olympic medals
in the same games. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Lisa Savigarvi. |
Born
December 29, 1963. She first learned to ski at 14 months! She was a national
competitor at 14 years. In 1985 she was overall alpine Canadian Champion.
She was forced out of competition in 1987-88 season after shattering
her knee and injuring her back while in World Cup training. |
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Beckie Scott |
Born Vegreville,
Alberta August 1, 1974. She began cross country skiing at the age of five
and her passion for competition was stirred when she won her first
competition at age 7. Scott is a two-time Olympian. She participated at the
1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scott won a gold medal in cross-country skiing at
the Salt Lake City games. She originally finished third in the
five-kilometer pursuit, but she was soon upgraded to the gold medal when
winner and runner-up were disqualified for using darbepoetin, a
performance-enhancing drug. She became the first Canadian and first North
American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing. Her Olympic
gold medal was presented to her in a ceremony in Calgary, Alberta and She
was extremely proud to be the first Canadian winter sport athlete to receive
a gold medal at home in Canada. In addition to her superb athletic
accomplishments, Scott is equally well known for her outspoken stand on
anti-doping and drug-free competition. She relentlessly challenged the
International Ski Federation (ISF) to be more aggressive in its efforts to
catch cheats. She never dreamed she would be a direct benefactor of those
efforts. On March 29, 2005 Scott agreed to join the World Anti-Doping
Agency’s athlete committee. Aware of the world outside of sport, she
spearheaded a Canadian team challenge to donate all prize money won from the
Continental Cup competition in British Columbia to the UNICEF efforts in
Afghanistan. The Beckie Scott Nordic Centre at Panorama Mountain Village in
Invermere, British Columbia, has been named in her honour. She is a member
of the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Mélanie Turgeon. |
Born Alma, Quebec October 21,1976. As a baby her father carried her in a
back pack when he skied down the slopes! As a junior in 1994 she won 5
medals! This Quebec skier has raced Slalom, Downhill, and Super G for
the Canadian Ski Team since 1992. In 1998 she was the top Canadian skier
in the World Cup. In 2001 she became the first
Canadian to win two Two World Cup medals in one day! She place # 1 at the
World Championship down hill races. |
| Lucille Wheeler |
Born Montreal, Quebec January 14,
1935. Lucille first skied when she was two years old! At 12 she was the
national junior ski champion and named to the Canadian National Ski Team at
14!. In 1956 she won bronze at the Cortina Olympic Games and became the
first ever Canadian Olympic ski Medalist. In 1958 she won both the downhill
and giant slalom event at the World Championships. She is a member of the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Soccer |
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Carrie Serwetnyk |
Born Hamilton, Ontario. July 17, 1965. When her family moved to
Mississauga, Ontario she played soccer for the Peel-Halton Soccer
Association. Eventually her promising skills in the sport earner her a
scholarship to the University of North Carolina in the USA. In 1985 she was
the leading scorer and was voted the team’s offensive MVP of the year. She
played in the NCAA women’s finals on winning teams in 1985 and 1985. Back
home in Ontario for the summers she also played in the Canadiana Nation
Championships / She played 19 times for Canada’s full national team. She
played in competition in Taipei and in Cuangzhou China in the late 1980’s.
Between 1988 and 1990 she played in France where the team reached the
national final. In the spring of 1992 she signed to a Japanese Club and
played in the 10 team Japanese Women’s League where she was the leader in
number of goals in the league. In 1993 she came back from a knee injury and
helped her team win their championships and the national tournament . In
2001 she was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. Source:
thesoccerhalloffame.ca Accessed March 2007. |
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Lela Alene Brooks |
Born
Toronto, Ontario February 7, 1908. An incredible speed skater she had broken
6 world records by the time she was 17 years old. After 14 years of
competing and winning every title to be won she retired in 1935 declining to
compete in the 1936 Olympics. She is Canada's first woman to be a world
champion. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of
Fame. |
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Christine Boudrias. |
Born September 3, 1972. A member of the Canadian National Speed Skating Team
since 1990/91, Christine is a 3 time Olympian with silver and bronze medals
to her credit. |
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Sylvie Burka |
Born Winnipeg, Manitoba June 4, 1954. A top speed skater and
cyclist she burst onto the Canadian sports scene first as a cyclist taking
the 1970 Coors International Bike classic. She switched to speed skating and
she took the 1973 world junior speed skating title. Set over 40 Canadian
records and won 5 national speed skating titles. She won the world senior
championship in 1976 and the sprint championship the next year. In cycling
whe won three gold medals at the western Canada Games |
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Sylvie Daigle. |
Born Sherbrooke, Quebec
February 29, 1962. She began speed skating when she was 8 years old.. She
would go on in her sport to win an Olympic gold medal at the Calgary games
1988 in the 1500m event and sliver medals in the 1000m and 3000m events. In
the Albertville Olympic Games it was gold again, this time as part of the
short track relay event. The Lillehammer Olympics would be a silver medal
again in the relay. She is also a student in medicine at l'Université de
Montréal. |
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Catriona LeMay Doan. |
Born
December 23,
1970. This young skater from the Canadian prairies is a member
of the national long track speed skating team. She won 2 medals
in the Olympics in Nagano, Japan. In 1997-8 she was the fastest
woman on ice! She lost only one 500m race all year! She is actively
involved in public speaking where she is challenging and motivating
people to achieve their full potential. In the 2002 Olympic
Winter Games she became the first Canadian individual to successfully defend
a gold medal at any games. |
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Cindy Klassen |
Born Winnipeg, Manitoba
August 12, 1976. It seems Cindy has always loved and been involved in
sports. In 1994 she was a member of the field Lacrosse team in a
demonstration sport at the Commonwealth Games. In 1996 she was a member of
Canada's National Junior Women's Hokey team. Her real love however is speed
skating which she began when she was 18. In 2002 she was second in the world
allround championships. February 10, 2002 she won the Canada's first medal
of the 2002 Olympic Games, a bronze, in the 3000m event. In 2003 she
clinched the number one spot as World Allround Speed Skating Champion. in
2005, suffering from a bad cold she was second in this world event. |
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Annie Perreault. |
Born July 29, 1971. Annie,
who hails from Windsor, Quebec, has been a member of the National Short
Track Speed Skating Team for more than 12 years. She is one of Canada's most
decorated female Olympians with credits of one bronze medal and two gold
medals. She also coaches some of her family members who have also become
recognized skaters. She enjoys her sport and wants to maintain her
performance level and to have fun while doing it. |
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Catherine Priestner-Allinger |
née Priestner
Born Windsor, Ontario May 27, 1956. She joined the national speed skating
team in 1971 and that same year she won gold and silver medals at the Canada
Winter Games. She was a member of the 1972 winter Olympic team but it was
not until she spent more time in international competitions winning podiums
that she would stand on the Olympic podium. In 1976, at the Innsbruck
Olympic Games she became the first Canadian woman to win an individual medal
with a silver in the 500 metre event. In 1975 she was Calgary’s Athlete of
the year and in 1976 she was inducted into the Alberta Hall of Fame and
received the Governor General’s Award of Excellence. In 1981 she was
inducted into the Canadian Speed Skating Hall of fame. After retiring from
competition she established a successful career as an Olympic television
commentator with the CBC and CTV. She worked as an organizer for the 1988
Calgary Winter Olympics and with the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
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Jean Wilson. |
Born Glasgow, Scotland July
19, 1910. Died September 3, 1933. In 1931 she was the North American indoor
speed skating champion. At the 1932 Olympics when women’s speed skating was
a demonstration sport, Jean won the 500m race in 58 seconds and came second
in the 1500 m event. At only 23 years of age she died from a progressive
muscular disease. She was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in
1955. |
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Swimming
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Marilyn Bell. |
Born Toronto, Ontario October 19, 1937.
t was September in 1954 when a 16-year-old Toronto Girl entered the Canadian
National Exhibition sponsored marathon swim race across Lake Ontario. She
was the only entrant to actually finish the 32-mile race. It took 21 hours! She was the first to successfully swim Lake
Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. She attended
university and married and lives in the United States where she was teacher
for 20 years . A back injury forced Mrs Di Lascio to give up swimming a few
years ago. She enjoys coming home to Canada for visits as often as she can. |
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Ethel Viola Bieber |
née Gilbert.
Born
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
May 6, 1920. Died
October 22,
1988. She enjoyed swimming in at ten began a competative career. At 15
she held the Nation Junior title for her freestyle events and was a member
of 5 championship relay teams. All through the 1930’s and into the early
1940’s she would continue to hold provincial and national records in various
events.
She was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1991. |
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Michelle Cameron. |
Born
December 28, 1962. From 1981 for the next 7 years she would be on
the synchronized swimming team that would win 6 of 8 national championships. She
was a member of the team that demonstrated the new sport to the International
Olympic Committee to have the Games accept the sport. She was on the gold medal
team in the 1988 Olympics. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Karen Clark. |
Born April 9, 1972. She is a member of our
Canadian Olympic Synchronized Swim Team. She earned a sliver medal at the
Atlanta Olympic Gamed in 1996. She holds several Canadian titles and has won
medals at the Pan American Games and the World Cup. She is also continuing
her studies at the University of Calgary. |
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Leslie Cliff. |
Born 1March
11, 955. One of Canada’s finest swimmers she won 27 gold, 19 sliver and 10
bronze international medals, including world and Olympic silver . She set
Commonwealth Games records in 1974 in both the 200 and 400 meter events.
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Phyllis Dewar. |
Born 1916. In
1934 & 1935 she held every single Canadian freestyle swimming record from
100 yards to one mile! She set records and won a gold medal at the British
Empire Games and returned to the games in 1938 for another gold medal
triumph. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
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Sylvie Fortier. |
Born July 31, 1953. Between 1973 and 1976 Sylvie
won 24 national level individual and team synchronized swimming gold medal!
She also holds 7 medals from the 1975 & 1976 Pan American and Pan Pacific
Games and won the world championship title in 1976. She is a member of the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Sylvie Frechette |
Born Montreal, Quebec June 27,
1967.Swimming has always been her passion. She was Female Athlete of the
Year in Aquatic Sports in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. She earned this
distinction by winning Olympic medals, in Atlanta in 1996 a Silver, Olympic
Gold in Barcelona in 1992, German Open Champion 1992, Japan Open Champion
1992, World Aquatic Champion 1991 where she was not only first but also set
a world record. The list continues with medals won at the Fina World Cup
1991,and the the 1990 Commonwealth Games. In 1992 the Canadian Sports
Federation created the Sylvie Frechette Award in her honour. Today she
follows her sport closely while working as a professional in communications
and marketing in the Montreal area. |
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Nancy Ellen Garapick. |
Born Halifax, Nova Scotia September 24, 1961. A
swimmer who did well in butterfly, free style and individual medley events
she had the most success in the backstroke event.
She set the world record in 1975 and in the same year was named Canada’s
female athlete of the year. She was
just 14 years old! In the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal she won two bronze medals. |
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Allison Higson |
Born Mississauga March 13, 1973. In 1985
this your breastroke swimmer set 11 records at a single swim meet! That same
year she became the youngest medalist in the world when she won a bronze
medal for the 200 m breastroke event. In 1986 the Canadian Amateur Swimming
Association awarded her top Female Athlete of the year. |
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Marianne Limpert |
Born Matagme, Quebec October 10, 1972.
This swimmer has won 20 national titles and 81 international medals
including Olympic silver. Marianne considers medal just symbols of her
journey through life. She has been Swim Canada's top female athlete of the
year in 1996, 1997 and 2000. At a qualifying event in 2000 she gave her
place on the Olympic event to the young swimmer who placed 1/100 of a second
behind her! A Maple Leaf tatoo just above her right ankle lets people know
she is Canadian. Out of the pool she is a spokeswoman for the New Brunswick
Arthritis Association and she has travelled with the "Future is Female"
program that encourages girls to pursue their dreams. |
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Vicki Keith Munro. |
Born Winnipeg, Manitoba February 26, 1961. A
superb marathon swimmer, she would use the butterfly stroke to swim into the
record books both nationally and internationally and all for the benefit of
charity. In 1985 she swam her first world-record crossing of Lake Ontario.
In 1988 she became the first person to swim cross all five Great Lakes. She
also conquered the harbour in Sydney, Australia, the English Channel between
Europe and England, and Juan de Fuca Strait on the North American west coast
and Lake Winnipeg in the geographical heart of Canada. He sponsorships would
earn hundreds of thousands of dollars most of which went to Variety Village
to benefit disabled children. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada
in 1992, earned the Variety Club Heart Award in 1989, B’Nai Brith Woman of
the Year for 1989 and the Vanier Award in 1989 and was inducted into the
Terry Fox Hall of Fame. Although she officially retired in 1991 from long
distance swimming, she hit the waters of the lakes again in 2005 to raise
awareness and funds for children with disabilities. |
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Cynthia Cindy Nicholas. |
Born Toronto, Ontario
August 20,1957. At 16 years old
Cindy bettered the record for swimming Lake Ontario. In 1975 she swam the English
Channel in record-breaking time. In 1977 she became the first woman to complete
a double crossing of the English Channel She would go on to swim the Channel 18 more times
including 5 two-way trips! Her honorary title was Queen of the Channel.
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