Le May Doan was the first female speed skater to break the 38-second barrier in the 500-metre event and is also the first Canadian to successfully defend a gold medal in the same event at an Olympics. Scarborough, Ontarios Andre De Grasse was a relatively late bloomer in the sport of track and field, as he didnt seriously begin racing until he was partway through high school. In his early days, he excelled in high jump and discus throw, too. Her ski schools were everywhere. 48.39, Jean Collas is the 6th most famous French Athlete. Christine Sinclair Hometown: Burnaby, B.C. Given the popularity of hockey in Canada, its only fitting a hockey player tops this list of the Top 10 Canadian Athletes. Canadians have never been the strongest contenders in the summer Olympics, but for an entire generation of Canadian children, Donovan Bailey represented the height of Canadian pride. by Nicknamed The Predator, Patrick Ct is a former Canadian boxer and MMA fighter. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages. She retired in January of this year with 168 goals and 211 assists to her name in just 276 career games. When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic. Canada's national women's soccer team, on the other hand, is one of the best in the world and are currently ranked fourth. It may be shocking to see the likes of Lemieux, Roy and Messier missing but rest assured their talents are not overlooked. Henri Bourassa, born in 1868 in Montral, had a significant impact on Canadian politics through his nationalist position, which still resonates today. The project was supported by the Governor General Lord Durham but was rejected by London. MacLennan became the first Canadian athlete to defend their title at a Summer Olympic Games, following up her gold-medal performance in trampoline from the 2012 London Olympic Games with another gold in Rio 2016. Thousands of pieces form Montrals historical patchwork quilt. Later, she likely worked as a nurse at a hospital in her hometown. Let's just say this three-time Olympian stars on tracks. She competed in track and field at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. She remains the only athlete to win multiple medals in both the summer and winter Olympics. Oleksiakss impressive breakthrough performance in Rio earned her the honor of being named Canadas flag bearer for the Olympic Closing Ceremonies, and won her the Lou Marsh award, given annually to the top Canadian athlete of that year. He also led the 4 x 100m relay team to a gold medal in the same Olympics. Let's take a look at Team Canada's dual-season Olympians. He returned the following year and became more involved in politics, becoming the right-hand man of Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine. He is best known for winning the US Triple Crown in 1973, riding the famous American thoroughbred racehorse, Secretariat. Her hard work and leadership provide an excellent example for other aspiring athletes. However, these did not stop him from becoming one of the greatest athletes France has ever had. Cindy Klassen Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jeannie Longos athletic career began in her hometown in the French Alps. As the first female leader of a political party in Canada, Thrse Casgrain changed the political landscape forever. anniversary in 2015, theEncyclopediadrew up the following list of 30 francophones from all corners of French-speaking Canada who have achieved fame in various fields. 3 Badminton. He also won the French national championship in the 5000-meter race, thus qualifying him for the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920. He bred and raced Standardbred horses as a hobby. Crosby has been a household name in Canada since he was a young teenager, as he dominated every age group. Raonic has 8 ATP titles to his name, and has earned over $14 million (USD) in career winnings. (Photo: National Archives Bookstore.) Greene is now a large figure in the B.C. The Saskatchewan-raised athlete skated for both the Oilers and the Boston Bruins, and was also playing for Edmonton's AHL affiliate team, the Bakersfield Condors, in the 2019-2020 season. Simmerling made history at Rio 2016 by becoming the first Canadian athlete to compete in three different sports in three different Olympic Games. The grandson of Patriote Louis-Joseph Papineau, Bourassa was an independent thinker who became a political model for his generation and the next. 1 Georges St-Pierre (One of the Greatest Fighters in the History of Mixed Martial Arts) 37 21 Listed In: Sportspersons Birthdate: May 19, 1981 Sun Sign: Taurus Height: 5'10" (178 cm) 2 Glenn Ford (One of the Most Prominent Actors During Hollywood's Golden Age) 70 12 Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities Birthdate: May 1, 1916 Sun Sign: Taurus Gretzky played twenty seasons in the NHL between 1979 and 1999, and despite being retired for more than twenty years, he still holds just about every offensive record there is. To celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2015, The Canadian Encyclopedia created 30 lists of 30 things that make us proud to be Canadian, from famous people and historic events, to iconic foods and influential artists. You probably think of hockey and a variety of other winter sports, anything that requires snow and ice. Top 10 Female Athletes [ edit] Nancy Greene (born 1943), skier Silken Laumann (born 1964), rower Barbara Ann Scott (1928-2012), figure skater Myriam Bdard (born 1969), biathlon Marnie McBean (born 1968), rower Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (1904-1969), track-and-field (voted female athlete of the first half of the century) He played professionally for Cannes in 1989. In 2022, Andre De Grasse won a gold medal at the World Championships. Aside from the Masters, Weir had seven other PGA Tour victories between 1999 and 2007. She is currently ranked an impressive 8th in the world at her sport, a position that she will no doubt surpass in the future. The Somalia-born athlete spent a part of his childhood in Kenya, before moving to Canada at age 11. They made little Inuvik a hotbed of ski talent. The Haitian-born athlete had moved to Canada as a child. She is the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the finals of a Grand Slam in singles. Canadians may remember the iconic image of her skating around the Salt Lake City Oval with a Canada flag in her hand and a black stetson on her head. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Basketball runs in the Parker family. Impressed by Mance and her mission, Peltrie decided to join the group. Klassen won five medals for Team Canada, despite the fact that there are far less medals available in the Winter Games. He was born on 26th January 1961. What comes to mind when you think of Canada and sports? In 1980, Ron Turcotte was elected as a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. When it comes to sports in which Canadians are underrepresented, being the first goes a long way. In PyeongChang 2018, Humphries partnered with sprinter Phylicia George winning a bronze medal. The Great One holds almost every NHL record you can think of and helped Edmonton become the City of Champions in the late 1980s. Orr won eight consecutive Norris Trophies as the NHLs best defenseman and three consecutive Hart Trophies as the leagues MVP. His skating ability, offensive skill, and great hockey IQ have convinced many people that he will soon be (if he isnt already) the best hockey player in the world. Jessica Biel (born 1982), American actress with distant French roots. Throughout the years, hundreds of Canadian athletes have made their mark on the world of sport and represented Canada at the highest level. Mathieu Drouin is the culture and education manager at Muse des Ursulines de Qubec City. For instance, though there have been several notable Canadian baseball players, Fergie Jenkins was the first Canadian to win the Cy Young Award. In span of his career, he had 10 grand slams to boot, 24 career titles, and was at No. France is most noted for its amazing breads, cheeses, and wines; art, architecture, and fashion; and of course, its fabulous destinations. He has won two silver medals and three bronze medals in two Olympic Games so far. Just a few years after Ben Johnson had his Olympic medals stripped due to doping, Donovan Bailey captured the hearts of a nation during the 1996 Atlanta games. He moved to Montral at the age of ten and entered the College de Montral. He retired in 2019, ending his basketball career as the ninth leading post-season scorer in NBA history. He won a Grey Cup, a Memorial Cup, two Stanley Cups and even a baseball championship in the International League. Percy Williams was a Canadian athlete best remembered for winning two gold medals at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He followed that up with a pair of gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games in the 100m and 200m, and bronze medals at the 2015 World Championships in the 100m and 4 x 100m relay. In the 1920s, she helped found the Provincial Franchise Committee for Womens Suffrage and began fighting for the right for women to vote provincially in Qubec a battle that would last more than two decades before victory was achieved. At the 2006 winter Olympic, Klassen became the only Canadian athlete to ever win five medals at one Olympic games. He competed in before making his NHL debut at 18 in 2005. Harold Ballard was a Canadian sportsman and businessman. Or, in the case of the Canadian women's hockey team, back-to-back-to-back-to-back. The first ever World Cup ski race was held in 1967. There are a few incredible young athletes in Canada that have a good chance of making it onto this list by the time their careers are done. Nash retired with the highest free throw percentage in NBA history at 90.42%. She won three gold medals in total at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and 1994. They became just the third trio of sisters to compete in the same individual event at the Winter Games. She moved on to ski cross in Sochi 2014 and was predicted to be in the medal hunt at PyeongChang 2018 until she broke both legs in a World Cup event just before the Games. Donovan Bailey is a retired Jamaican-Canadian sprinter. In 1910 he founded the newspaper Le Devoir to share his perspective. CBC Sports' Signa Butler celebrates some of Canada's most storied female athletes. Oleksiak is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer who won 4 medals (a record for a Canadian athlete at a single Summer Olympics) at the Rio Olympics: gold in the 100m freestyle, silver in the 100m butterfly, and bronze in both the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m freestyle relays. She was also part of the team that won bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Probably Canada's most famous Paralympic athlete, he's won three golds, two silvers and one bronze between 1980 and 1984. Starting off our list we have Andrew Wiggins, the professional basketball player from the NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves. updated March 31, 2019, 10:41 am, by Melissa Benoist, American actress, of partial French descent through paternal great-grandfather. She'll look to win her first LPGA major since 2016 in April. Jeannie Longo's athletic career began in her hometown in the French Alps. If you dont already know these athletes, you should. The face of womens Canadian soccer and likely the greatest Canadian soccer player ever. Our focus was to represent aboriginal people on the world stage in sport and I think that's what we did.". She won the first-ever World Cup skiing race in 1967 before winning gold at the 1968 winter Olympic giant slalom event. Steve Nash Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa (immigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan then Victoria, B.C.). Ethel Smith (1907 - 1979). Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder Lascelles Brown is an Olympic silver medalist and a former World Champion. By the 1960s, his idea of a bicultural Canada had made its way to Parliament, where it was promoted by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Their homecoming to Toronto was nuts. Former Edmonton Grads basketball team members (left to right) Edith Stone Sutton (1930-34), Margaret MacBurney . He won three Welterweight Championships between 2006 and 2008 and was listed as the number one welterweight in the world for several years. Mario Lemieux was the first overall draft pick in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, and he certainly didnt disappoint. She finished third in combined pursuit at those Salt Lake City Olympics, only to be upgraded to the Olympic gold after two Russians were caught doping. Eisler also won a gold medal, three silver medals, and two bronze medals at the World Championships between 1985 and 1994. After a spinal cord injury at 15, he became a paraplegic. He also won the 4x100m relay at the 2018 NACAC Championships. And this weekend Sidney Crosby will be taking his second Stanley Cup home to his Nova Scotia hometown. Arianne Moffatt, from Quebec City, is a multi-talented singer that is undefinable by any genre standards. He was 16 when he began his martial arts training with the Canadian Army. You probably don't know these names, but you should. He won gold twice at the 1996 games and was the record-holder for the 100m sprint. Now in his 3rd NBA season, Wiggins is a rising star in the NBA thanks to his athleticism and skill. In the weeks leading up to July 1st, we will be releasing articles on the best Canada has to offer. Clara Hughes Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Oendrila De He remains the only defenseman to lead the league in scoring, which he did twice, although Brent Burns is trying his best to join Orr in that regard this season. Cartier persuaded French Canadians that this type of union would be more sympathetic to the French Catholic cause than an alliance with the United States. Make a donation to Canadas History Society. Her bronze in the 5,000 metres in Vancouver was epic. Together, they left trails of smoke on tracks from Vancouver to Sochi and just about everywhere around the globe. A self-proclaimed Francophile, I love everything France. Lemieux is narrowly behind Gretzky for the highest all-time points per game in the NHL and the two Canadians are a half point higher than anyone else on the list. Canadas national womens soccer team is currently ranked in the top ten, thanks in part to the skills of captain Christine Sinclair. bizarre and unfortunate Olympic qualifying rules and domestic standards, She later stepped down as head of the WADA athlete's committee, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. More than any other player, Howe played the whole game. The gifted playmaker returned to Phoenix in 2004 where he won back to back NBA MVP Awards. Jenkins wasnt just a talented baseball player either, as he spent a few off-seasons playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. Olympic silver medalist Canadian long-distance runner Mohammed Ahmed scripted history as Canadas first medal winner at the 5,000m at both the World Championships and the Olympics. Sinclair has won the Canada Soccer Player of the Year award an outstanding 12 times in her career and is a 6 time nominee of FIFAs World Player of the Year award. Gretzky is the only NHL player to ever total more than 200 points in a single season, and he didnt just do it once, but four times. Two different events. Andre De Grasse is a Canadian track and field athlete best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 200 metres event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Early Years. Canadian athlete Earl Thomson, or Tommy Thomson, scripted history as the first non-American to win a 110m hurdles Olympic gold medal. Brooke Henderson. Indigenous Canadian actor Jay Silverheels gained international popularity for playing Tonto, the Native American companion of the protagonist in the American western TV series The Lone Ranger. To mark its 30th Here are the Top 10 Canadian athletes in the world today. or back-to-back World Cup overall titles, Greene Raine ruled the slopes and inspired the next generation of ski racers, male and female. Similarly to Andre De Grasse, Penny Oleksiak used the 2016 Summer Olympics as a means to catapult herself to the forefront of her sport. In fact, his plan for Canadian independence from the British Parliament became reality in 1931, with the signing of the Statute of Westminster. She became a dual-season Olympian at PyeongChang 2018 when she won bronze with Kaillie Humphries in bobsleigh. See also; 10 Highest Paid Athletes in the world. With that out of the way, lets take a look at the 12 greatest Canadian athletes of all time! She ran the anchor leg for Jane Bell, Ethel Smith and Myrtle Cook as Canada won gold in the inaugural 4x100-metre relay. She was part of the first Canadian women's track and field team to compete internationally. Through her perseverance and dedication to Montral, Jeanne Mance paved the way for what would become the most important city in Canada between 1880 and 1950. Jean Collas (3 July 1874 in Paris - 30 December 1928 in Asnires-sur-Seine, France) was a French rugby union player and tug of war competitor, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. 15 Inspirational Asian Canadians to Know by : Patricia Karounos and Hannah Ziegler - May 25th, 2020 In honour of Asian Heritage Month, we're highlighting Asian-Canadian women and non-binary people for their impact in the realms of culture, fashion, athletics and politics. If you lived in North America or Europe in the 1960s and 70s, she was famous as they come. She's got her eyes on a fourth Games in Tokyo this summer. They're the most successful team in Canadian history, winning an astounding 95 per cent of their matches. Without a doubt, Canadas greatest basketball player. Not only does Clara Hughes have six Olympic medals to her name, shes one of two athletes since Second World War to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Games. This is all thanks to his world-famous eponymous polo shirt brand with the crocodile logo. Although Im from the Philippines, my location independent career took me to over 40 countries and lived in 4 continents in the last 10 years, including France. When search suggestions are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Captain Canada himself, Michael Saunders, made it to the MLB All-Star game. Whether it was her dominant gold medal victory in the giant slalom at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics (she won by a whopping 2.68 seconds!) He is the youngest French player to score at a World Cup, and the second teenager, next to Pel, to score in a World Cup Final. Ren Lacoste invented this signature polo shirt, but thats not all. He was also the creator of the first steel tennis racket and the tennis ball machine. Quite eerily, MacLennan is coming back from another injury (a broken ankle) as she prepares to defend her Olympic crown a THIRD time, this time in Tokyo. The first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France.Canada's first female Winter Olympian was 15-year-old Cecil Smith, who finished sixth in the women's figure skating competition and seventh in the pairs competition with Melville Rogers. 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Hundreds of thousands came out to celebrate and in 1950, Rosenfeld was named Canada's female athlete of the first half of the century. We recognize the resilience of Indigenous storytellers and Knowledge Keepers who have kept their stories alive despite attempts to silence them. However, France has also produced some of the worlds most famous athletes. He is also a former Commonwealth Champion and a 2-time World Champion. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. While growing up in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, she was quite the fastball player, representing Canada at the world junior championships at one point. Marcheline Bertrand, actress of half French-Canadian ancestry, mother of actress Angelina Jolie. Andre De Grasse is a Canadian track and field athlete best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 200 metres event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Between Shirley and Sharon, they won 48 Canadian championships. She was 15 when she began training in hurdles. Moyse - the best pusher in the world - was a team-sport star from PEI and member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame. 5 Bobsleigh. Few athletes on this list hold the type of legacy that Fox has among Canadians. At 26 years old, Raonic is in the prime of his career, so look for him to be a major player on the ATP tour in the future. Candice Quigley She was educated by the Ursulines a religious order devoted to educating girls and caring for the sick and needy. Adriana John With so many trailblazers in this country, this list could run off the page. He transformed from a moderate politician to a radical, openly attacking institutions such as the Legislative Council, whose non-elected members controlled the country. The Canadian Press awards the Lionel Conacher award to the countrys male athlete of the year. Mark McKoy is a three-time Commonwealth champion, having won gold medals at the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games. They learned the sport from a French priest on borrowed skis from a U.S. Army base and eventually a small nordic team was formed. The Society is committed to sharing and amplifying Indigenous histories, perspectives, and voices and walking together with Indigenous peoples on the path to truth and reconciliation. Her six career medals ties her with speed skating teammate Cindy Klassen as Canada's most-decorated Olympian. The Ontario native has also represented Canada on the international stage several times, including being a member of the bronze medal winning squad at the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship. Canada produced a pair of elite sprinters in the late part of the 20th century, but only one of them did it legitimately. Cecil Smith, her sister Maude "Jim" Smith, and Constance Wilson competed for Canada in figure skating at the 1928 . He continues to inspire countless Canadians after all these years. She was a downhill skier before switching to cycling at the urging of her coach, Patrice Ciprelli, who later became her husband. She did it in her 500-metre specialty at both the 1998 and 2002 Games. Here are the top 10 greatest celebrated Canadian athletes of all time; 1. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin 22/35 Rachel McAdams This Mean Girl was born in London, Ontario. Nancy Greene Widely regarded as Canada's top female athlete of the 20th century, Greene was a trailblazer for female Canadian athletes. She's the only athlete in history to win multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. While a lot of countries have one, The main event of UFC Vegas 66 will feature a contest between Cannonier and Sean Strickland, two superb fighters. Hockey has proven that Canada has its fair share of fighters, but not too many of us make a splash in the world of boxing. Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld was the premiere sprinter of the Games. Four years later, she made the hurdles final once again and helped the 4x100 relay team to sixth-place finish.
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