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    Elvis Stojko

    As a young skater, Stojko still lacked the finesse and artistic ability to challenge for the championship. He finished 2nd at the Canadian championships for the next 3 years but showed consistent improvement in his artistic ability.

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  • Macleans

    Elvis Stojko: Maclean's 1995 Honor Roll

    Tired and coming down with a cold, Elvis Stojko just wanted to collapse on the sofa in his Richmond Hill, Ont., apartment. But that was not in the cards.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 18, 1995

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    Émilie Heymans

    A 6 time PAN AMERICAN medallist and 3 time OLYMPIC GAMES medallist, success began early for Heymans, who had won 30 national titles by the time she was 19.

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    Émilie Mondor

    ​Émilie Mondor, athlete, middle-distance runner (born 29 April 1981 in Montréal, Québec; died 9 September 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario).

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    Emma-Jayne Wilson

    Emma-Jayne Wilson concluded her studies at Guelph in 2002 and worked at a breeding farm for a short time before moving to Woodbine to assume a position as an exercise rider. Two years later Wilson was certified as an apprentice jockey, riding her first race in August 2004.

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    Equestrian Sports

    Canadians have been involved in modern equestrian sports (dressage, jumping and eventing) since the early 20th century, and have brought home medals from the Olympic Games, World Equestrian Games and Pan American Games. 

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    Eric Lamaze

    Eric Lamaze's career took off in the early 1990s. He began competing at the Grand Prix (top-level) competition in 1992, and a year later he was named to the Canadian Equestrian Team.

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    Eric Morse

    Eric Morse, promoter of wilderness travel by canoe in Canada (b at Naini Tal, India 27 Dec 1904; d at Ottawa 18 Apr 1986). Oriented from youth toward CANOEING, he undertook long river journeys with influential persons from 1951.

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    Ernestine Russell

    Ernestine “Ernie” Jean Russell, gymnast, coach (born 10 June 1938 in Windsor, ON). Ernestine Russell was Canada’s best female gymnast of the 1950s. She was the first woman to represent Canada in gymnastics at the Olympic Summer Games, at Melbourne in 1956. She was also the first Canadian gymnast ever to medal in an international competition, at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, where she won four gold medals and two silver. She won 46 gold medals at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships between 1954 and 1960. She also had a successful career coaching women’s gymnastics at the NCAA level and with Team USA. She has been inducted into the Canadian Amateur Athletic Hall of Fame and the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

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    Ernie Richardson

    Ernie Richardson, curler (born at Stoughton, Sask 1931). He gained world acclaim as skip of the famous Richardson Rink, probably the best known in Canadian curling history.

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    Ethan Katzberg

    Ethan Tobias Katzberg, track and field athlete (born 5 April 2002 in Nanaimo, BC). Ethan Katzberg holds the Pan American Games record (80.96 m) and the Canadian record (84.70 m) in men’s hammer throw. At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he became the first Canadian to win gold in the hammer throw (81.25 m), as well as the youngest medallist ever in the event. Katzberg was seen as the gold medal favourite heading into the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. He won gold with a dominant throw of 84.12 m, while no other competitor broke 80 m. Katzberg and women’s hammer throw gold medallist Camryn Rogers topped both podiums in the event for Canada. Katzberg then defended his world title at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with the fifth-longest throw of all time. He and Rogers became the only Canadians to win back-to-back world titles in an individual athletics event.

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    Ethel Catherwood

    Ethel Catherwood, track and field athlete (b in Hannah, North Dakota 28 Apr 1908; d Grass Valley, California 26 Sept 1987). Ethel Catherwood was the only Canadian woman ever to win an individual gold medal in Olympic track and

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    Étienne Desmarteau

    Étienne Desmarteau, strongman (b at Boucherville, Qué 4 Feb 1873; d at Montréal 29 Oct 1905). A Montréal policeman, Étienne Desmarteau excelled in tug-of-war and weight-throwing events and was

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    Eugenie Bouchard

    Eugenie Bouchard, tennis player (born 25 February 1994 in Montréal, QC). At Wimbledon 2014, Bouchard became the first Canadian singles player to reach the final of a senior Grand Slam singles tennis tournament. Although she lost to Petra Kvitova, the match was watched by over a million Canadians and helped make Bouchard a media sensation. Two years earlier, Bouchard had won the Wimbledon 2012 girls’ tournament, becoming the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title at any level. A two-time winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award (2013 and 2014), she was the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Newcomer of the Year in 2013 and won a WTA title in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2014.

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    Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld

    Fanny "Bobbie " Rosenfeld, track and field athlete, sportswriter (born 28 December 1904 in Ekaterinoslav, Russia [now Dnipro, Ukraine]; died 13 November 1969 in Toronto, ON). An exceptional athlete who excelled in many sports, including basketball, hockey and softball, Rosenfeld is best known for her medal-winning performances on the track at the 1928 Olympic Summer Games in Amsterdam. After retiring from competition, she became a well-known sportswriter — her column “Sports Reel” ran for 20 years in The Globe and Mail. Through her athletic accomplishments and her sports journalism, Rosenfeld helped to promote and defend women’s sports, and was a role model for many sports-minded women, particularly those from the working class.

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