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Meaghan Benfeito

Diving

Three-time Olympic medalist

Meaghan Benfeito is Portuguese by origin. This 30-year-old athlete, from the top of her five feet, is certainly the most discreet Canadian Olympic medalist! She is indeed one of the most decorated athletes in history, to this date… but doesn’t want to stop there. At the Tokyo Olympic games, where she will do her swan song, Meaghan’s ultimate goal will be to add two medals to her already impressive arsenal.

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Woody Belfort

Wheelchair basketball and bodybuilding

Paralympic athlete

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Marianne St-Gelais

Short track speed skating

Three-time Olympic medalist

She stoles everyone’s hearts at the Vancouver Olympics where she won two silver medals. In Sochi, four years later, she once again won silver in the 3000 m relay.

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Laurence Vincent Lapointe

Simple and double canoe

World champion

Crowned world champion at thirteen times, Laurence is undoubtedly the athlete to watch in the next Summer Olympics in 2020.

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Kristel Ngarlem

Weightlifting

Canadian champion and 8th at the world championships

Kristel is a senior Canadian champion and triple medalist at the World Weightlifting Championships. Most recently, she reached eighth place at the World Weightlifting Championships (2018), first qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The one who traded figure skating for the weightlifting bars at the age of 10 defies all the stereotypes of her sport. She trains tirelessly to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.

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Philippe Marquis

Freestyle Skiing | Moguls

Double olympian

Having participated in his second Olympics to PyeongChang in 2018, Philippe Marquis caught the eyes simply by his presence because he tore the ACL in his left knee hardly one month before his participation.

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Sylvie Bernier

Diving

Olympic champion, speaker and healthy lifestyle ambassador

Gold medalist on the 3 m springboard at the Los Angeles Olympics, she inspires the generation who saw her dive as well as the next generation, which she hopes to see grow up well-informed and healthy.

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Chantal Petitclerc

Wheelchair racing

Multiple paralympic champion

Chantal Petitclerc returned from the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games with 5 gold medals, 2 new world records and 1 new Paralympic record, making her the most celebrated track athlete in history as well as the only Canadian athlete to have won gold medals at the Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealth Games.

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Alexandre Bilodeau

Freestyle skiing | Moguls

Double Olympic champion and speaker

First Canadian athlete in history to win a gold medal on Canadian soil at the Vancouver Olympics, he successfully defended his title four years later in Sochi.

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Charline Labonté

Hockey

Four-time olympic champion

Four-time Olympic champion, three-time World Champion and five-time silver medalist at the World Championships, Charline Labonté’s record stands up to any NHL goaltender’s!

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