If you lived in North America or Europe in the 1960s and 70s, she was famous as they come. He also won a gold medal at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton. 2 Donovan Bailey Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe are two among the most famous ice hockey players the country has seen. Ben Johnson who held the record of being the fastest man in the world during the 1980s was a Canadian. Born in Montral in 1786, he grew up at his familys estate and studied law. He also won a gold medal at the 1981 Pacific Conference Games and at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. For instance, though there have been several notable Canadian baseball players, Fergie Jenkins was the first Canadian to win the Cy Young Award. At her first Olympics at London 2012, George made the 100 hurdles final, finishing sixth. Melissa Benoist, American actress, of partial French descent through paternal great-grandfather. Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder Lascelles Brown is an Olympic silver medalist and a former World Champion. He is also the program assistant of Canadas History Society. However, France has also produced some of the worlds most famous athletes. Auto racing is another sport that few Canadians excel at, but Vileneuve certain helped to put our countrys name on the map with the sport. Five years later, he received his first players license. In the early 2000s, Mike Weir was the guy from Canada and he was one of the best players on tour. Adriana John He holds the Canadian record in high jump, clearing 2.40m in 2014. Like Terry Fox, Rick Hansen is often honoured for his courage and strength against adversity, but hes also celebrated as a truly gifted athlete. Louis-Joseph Papineau had a reputation as a hero and a defender of the rights of French Canadians, but he was also seen as a traitor to the nation and to the Commonwealth. She represented Canada at the 2008 Paralympic Games, where she won a bronze medal. 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. She was also part of the team that won bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In span of his career, he had 10 grand slams to boot, 24 career titles, and was at No. In the 2020 Olympics, Sinclair helped her team win the gold medal. Canada is a nation that has an incredibly diverse interest in sports. The grandson of Patriote Louis-Joseph Papineau, Bourassa was an independent thinker who became a political model for his generation and the next. However, Captain Charisma had so much more to offer to the fans of WWE. However, in recent years a number of Canadians in various sports have made an impact at the highest levels. He won three Welterweight Championships between 2006 and 2008 and was listed as the number one welterweight in the world for several years. Later, she likely worked as a nurse at a hospital in her hometown. The moment she won Canada's first-ever cross-country medal at an Olympic Games, Beckie Scott made history, but she could not have known how that achievement would forge the next part of her life. He returned to Canada after being granted amnesty in 1844. 5 Bobsleigh. 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. 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. Jenkins wasnt just a talented baseball player either, as he spent a few off-seasons playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. Raonic has 8 ATP titles to his name, and has earned over $14 million (USD) in career winnings. updated May 7, 2015, 5:50 pm, by A self-proclaimed Francophile, I love everything France. CBC Sports' Signa Butler celebrates some of Canada's most storied female athletes. Early Years. The Hub is brought to you by Boomerswork.com where we put your experience to work. She won bronze at the 2002 Salt Lake City games, a gold and silver in the 2006 Turin games and another bronze on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver games. Given the popularity of hockey in Canada, its only fitting a hockey player tops this list of the Top 10 Canadian Athletes. Moyse - the best pusher in the world - was a team-sport star from PEI and member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Its always an inspiring sight to see a Canadian with that gold medal around their neck. Tony Parkers dad and two siblings also played professional basketball. After a spinal cord injury at 15, he became a paraplegic. Henri Bourassa, born in 1868 in Montral, had a significant impact on Canadian politics through his nationalist position, which still resonates today. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Had it not been for some bizarre and unfortunate Olympic qualifying rules and domestic standards,they would have competed at Tokyo 2020 in the debut of 3-on-3 basketball and been a medal favourite. He is currently ranked 4th in the world, though he was ranked 3rd for a time in 2016. Without a doubt, Canadas greatest basketball player. As the first female leader of a political party in Canada, Thrse Casgrain changed the political landscape forever. She retired after 2012 London Games after finishing fifth in the time trial. Sinclair has shown unbelievable skill on the field as well as proven to be a true leader of her team again and again. 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. It may be shocking to see the likes of Lemieux, Roy and Messier missing but rest assured their talents are not overlooked. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. She won the French road race Championship that same year. According to the 2016 census,Frenchwas the mother tongue language of 7,166,705 people, or 21 per cent of the Canadian population. Also, Crosby is a complete player with few, if any, weaknesses in his game. He hasnt left the sport entirely, playing for charity and coaching after his retirement. Gold at home in Vancouver 2010 and a repeat four years later in Russia. Klassen won five medals for Team Canada, despite the fact that there are far less medals available in the Winter Games. 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. As a cyclist, Hughes competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta where she raced to bronze in both the road race and time trial. The list is in alphabetical order based on last name. Introducing a few of the many Montralers who became important figures in Canadian history. He has also had a very successful international career, winning 2 Olympic gold medals, a World Junior Championship, a World Championship, and a World Cup title with Team Canada. The Great One holds almost every NHL record you can think of and helped Edmonton become the City of Champions in the late 1980s. She intends to go for gold again with the Stars and Stripes at Beijing 2022. In 1942, she ran for federal election as a Liberal and lost. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 110m hurdles event at the 1992 Olympic Games. The poorly organized revolt was quickly suppressed, and Papineau went into exile. In 1910 he founded the newspaper Le Devoir to share his perspective. Nancy Greene, nicknamed Tiger for her aggressive style of skiing, is one of the most decorated alpine skiers in Canadian history. Despite the late entry into sprinting, De Grasse burst onto the scene in 2015 by winning the 100m and 200m events at the NCAA Championships while representing the University of Southern California. There are a number of Canadians doing good things on the PGA Tour, but that wasnt always the case. Wickenheiser also represented Canada once in the Summer Olympics as a part of the softball team. Explore a timeline of Montreals 375-year history! 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. Ren Lacoste had fared well in his athletics career as well. What comes to mind when you think of Canada and sports? Before there was Montral, there was Hochelaga a sixteenth-century agricultural community that mysteriously vanished. Despite a short career, Owen Hart is one of the greatest Canadian wrestlers of all time. Former Edmonton Grads basketball team members (left to right) Edith Stone Sutton (1930-34), Margaret MacBurney . To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). No surprise she was voted the top female Canadian athlete of the 20th century. He has won World Championship gold medals with Canada at both the Junior (2015) and Senior (2016) level. Three-time Olympian Canadian track and field athlete and bobsledder Phylicia George is also an Olympic bronze medalist in the two-woman bobsleigh category. Christine Sinclair Hometown: Burnaby, B.C. Clara Hughes (Road Cycling/Speed Skating) Hughes has won six Olympic medals in her . Louis-Joseph Papineau PATRIOTE LEADER AND POLITICIAN Louis-Joseph Papineau had a reputation as a hero and a defender of the rights of French Canadians, but he was also seen as a traitor to the nation and to the Commonwealth. Post-retirement, she worked as a sports columnist and coach. Hockey as he is commonly known, still holds the record for most games played in the NHL. Crosbys dominance has continued since then, as he has captained the Penguins to 2 Stanley Cup championships, won 2 Hart trophies (NHL MVP), 2 Art Ross trophies (NHL scoring title), and a Conn Smythe trophy (playoff MVP). Mance, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, and the rest of the contingent left La Rochelle, France, on two vessels in May 1641. 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. The Haitian-born athlete had moved to Canada as a child. He then established himself as one of the top hockey and boxing referees of his generation. His best-known role was Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride in 1987. 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. After being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Papineau became the leader of the Parti Canadien, which later became the Patriote party. Much like Mario Lemieux, theres a good chance Orr would be considered the greatest hockey player of all time if his career wasnt cut short by injury. When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic. McDavid, a speedy centre, was the first pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, and recently made his first All-Star appearance at the professional level. Three hundred and seventy-five years ago, a small group of French settlers faced unthinkable hardship and danger to establish what would become the great city of Montral. Genre: Pop Listen to: Pour toi Check her out here! Our team will be reviewing your submission and get back to you with any further questions. Her bronze in the 5,000 metres in Vancouver was epic. Canada's national men's soccer team leaves much to be desired and are currently ranked 78th in the world. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Brooke has been a top-10 competitor on the LPGA for a couple years now, but she's still just 21 years old. He was the first Canadian, and first Cubs pitcher, to win a Cy Young Award as the leagues best pitcher and accumulated over 3,000 strikeouts in his long career. 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. The gifted playmaker returned to Phoenix in 2004 where he won back to back NBA MVP Awards. He gave up his lucrative running career in 1916 to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces where his endurance was invaluable as a dispatch carrier in France; he was wounded twice and declared dead once. Previously, she had won the bronze medal and the silver medal at the 2013 and 2014 World Curling Championships respectively. MacLennan's second gold was even more remarkable given her battle back from post-concussion syndrome in the lead-up to the Games. His professional athletics career began at the age of 16, winning a Ligue 1 title, Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year, and the Golden Boy award. She retired in January of this year with 168 goals and 211 assists to her name in just 276 career games. Most people (athletes included) tend to like either the summer or the winter. An advocate for Indigenous issues, Chalmers has made efforts to connect with and inspire . When it comes to sports in which Canadians are underrepresented, being the first goes a long way. Perhaps no other name in the history of French sports is more popular today than Lacoste. Similarly to Andre De Grasse, Penny Oleksiak used the 2016 Summer Olympics as a means to catapult herself to the forefront of her sport. Get exclusive content you wont find in our magazines. Clara Hughes has won six Olympic medals and also has an unusual record as being one of the only athletes in the world to have won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. 7 Curling. If you liked this article, please share it! In 1834, the Patriotes won a large majority in the Legislative Assembly and prepared a series of reforms, dubbed the Ninety-Two Resolutions, which would allow French Canadians to win power in Lower Canada through responsible government. Steve Nash Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa (immigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan then Victoria, B.C.). Throughout the years, hundreds of Canadian athletes have made their mark on the world of sport and represented Canada at the highest level. As an athlete, she won 21 medals at five Paralympic Games from 1992 to 2008, including 14 gold medals, and broke 26 world records along the way. He is best known for winning the US Triple Crown in 1973, riding the famous American thoroughbred racehorse, Secretariat. Oendrila De Canadas National History Society acknowledges that we meet and work across the ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples: First Nations, Inuit, and Mtis. Here are the top 10 greatest celebrated Canadian athletes of all time; 1. One of the enduring memories of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games was that of moguls gold medallist Justine Dufour-Lapointe standing on the top step of the podium, looking to her right and holding hands with her older sister Chloe, the silver medallist. Ron Turcotte is a Canadian former race horse jockey. While there are 15 deserving athletes on this list, there are a number of incredible Canadian athletes that didnt make the cut, which wasnt an easy decision. He was the inspiration for the 1998 movie My Giant. Naomi Osaka. He retired in 2019, ending his basketball career as the ninth leading post-season scorer in NBA history. Andrew Stawicki/Toronto Star via Getty Images. The former Canadian senator is better known as the best alpine skier of her day. 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. A true family affair. A significant milestone, but even more significant is that hes also the first Canadian to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Known for his mix of speed, power, skill, and grit. In 2022, Andre De Grasse won a gold medal at the World Championships. At that point, Greene had already won several high-profile events in Canada and The States. 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. Make a donation to Canadas History Society. Warner picked up his first Olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2016 Rio Games, and also has silver and bronze medals from the 2015 and 2013 World Championships. There are parks and lakes and mountain peaks and streets and buildings named after her. Angela Frances Chalmers, world-class distance runner from Birdtail Sioux First Nation (born 6 September 1963 in Brandon, MB).Chalmers is one of the most accomplished Indigenous athletes in Canada. 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. Gordie Howe, or Mr. Zidane is a Muslim of Algerian-French descent. She was a downhill skier before switching to cycling at the urging of her coach, Patrice Ciprelli, who later became her husband. Impressed by Mance and her mission, Peltrie decided to join the group. In 1951, she was elected as the leader of the Qubec wing of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, becoming the first woman to head a Canadian political party. He spent five years inside the top 10 of the World Golf Rankings, sandwiched around his historic Masters win in 2003. Desai Williams was a Canadian sprinter best remembered for winning a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He then set or equalled world records in the 60-yard indoor dash, the 100-yard dash, the 100 m sprint and the 440-yard relay. Tom Longboat was an Onondaga athlete who specialized in distance running. A large part of that is the career of Christine Sinclair, who can be considered one of the best females to ever play the 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!) Four years later, she made the hurdles final once again and helped the 4x100 relay team to sixth-place finish. Just before winning four consecutive Olympic gold medals in hockey, Wickenheiser starred for the softball team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Canada does have a strong history of producing great hockey players, skiers, skaters, and athletes who compete in other winter sports. Hes a 23-time NHL All-Star and held a number of hockeys scoring records until Wayne Gretzky broke them in the 1980s. Harold Ballard was made an inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1977 and 1987 respectively. And that wasn't the end of it. Today, Longo is an all-time great racing cyclist who still competes on the Masters circuits in her 60s. In honor of Canada Day, here are the 25 greatest Canadians of all time: 26. Scott resigned WADA's compliance and review committee in 2018 over the reinstatement of Russia's anti-doping agency. Wayne Gretzky Hometown: Brantford, Ontario. Elected in the Montral suburb of Verchres, he became co-premier of the unified Province of Canada along with John A. Macdonald. or back-to-back World Cup overall titles, Greene Raine ruled the slopes and inspired the next generation of ski racers, male and female. Only in his 20s, Mbapp is regarded as one of the best football players in the world, having already won more trophies than most players do in their entire career. When you have those kinds of stats, you can find yourself on a Google Doodle or in a Heritage Minute. Rachel Homan is a Canadian professional curler best known for winning the gold medal at the 2017 World Curling Championships. 2 Association football. He also has bronze medals from the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2013 World Championships. Post-retirement, he has been working as a power skating coach. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages. Captain Canada himself, Michael Saunders, made it to the MLB All-Star game. Rick Hansen Like Terry Fox, Rick Hansen is often honoured for his courage and strength against adversity, but he's also celebrated as a truly gifted athlete. Copyright 2023 by AncoraThemes. She followed those medals up with four medals over the span of three Winter Games in speedskating. Between Shirley and Sharon, they won 48 Canadian championships. (Photo: National Archives Bookstore.) Conacher succeeded in a number of sports including football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse, boxing and wrestling. With that out of the way, lets take a look at the 12 greatest Canadian athletes of all time! 2 female tennis player in the world, withdrew from the French Open on Monday after she was fined $15,000 for failing to attend a post-match press conference. Sharon Firth said: "The world was so fascinated by us skinny indian girls and boys and how we danced on skis. Muhammed Ali said Chuvalo was the toughest fighter he ever faced. 8 Figure skating. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Victor Davis, Guelph Andre De Grasse, Scarborough / Markham Lori Dupuis, Cornwall Dave Edge (born 1954), British-Canadian Olympic long-distance runner Terry Farnsworth (born 1942), Olympic judoka Mark Fawcett, Nelson, British Columbia Shaul Gordon (born 1994), Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer
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