Canada at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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Canada at the
2002 Commonwealth Games
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
CGF code CAN
CGA Commonwealth Games Canada
Website commonwealthgames.ca
in Manchester, England
Flag bearersOpening:
Closing:
Medals
Ranked 3rdth
Gold
31
Silver
41
Bronze
44
Total
116
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
Newfoundland Red Ensign.png  Newfoundland (1930, 1934)

Canada was represented at the 2002 Commonwealth Games by a team that was selected by Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC). Canada is one of only six countries to have competed in all of the Commonwealth Games held since 1930 and was the host nation for the first games (then dubbed the British Empire Games) in Hamilton, Ontario.

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At the 2002 Commonwealth games, Canada walked away with a total of 116 medals which placed them 3rd overall behind England and Australia

Medal results by events

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Alexandre Despatie Diving 1 m Springboard
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Alexandre Despatie Diving 3 m Springboard
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Claire Carver-Dias Synchronized swimming Solo
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Claire Carver-Dias & Fanny Létourneau Synchronized swimming Duet
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mark Boswell Field & Combined High Jump
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Chantal Petitclerc Disability events Women's 800 m wheelchair
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jean Pascal Boxing Light Middleweight 71 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jason Douglas Boxing Heavyweight
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Roland Green Mountain biking Men's Cross country
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Chrissy Redden Mountain biking Women's Cross country
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Clara Hughes Road bicycle racing Women's Individual time trial
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kate Richardson Gymnastics Women's Balance Beam
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kate Richardson Gymnastics Women's All Round Individual
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Men's Floor Exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Men's Vault
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Carolyne Lepage Judo Women's u/48 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nicolas Gill Judo Men's u/100 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Metodi Igorov Shooting Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Individual
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Clayton Miller Shooting Men's Skeet Individual
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kim Eagles & Dorothy Ludwig Shooting Women's Air Pistol Pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Cynthia Meyer Shooting Women's Olympic Trap Individual
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jonathon Power Squash Men's Singles
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Simon Whitfield Triathlon 1500 m swimming, 40 km road cycling, and 10 km running
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Carol Montgomery Triathlon 1500 m swimming, 40 km road cycling, and 10 km running
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Maryse Turcotte Weightlifting 58 kg clean and jerk
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Maryse Turcotte Weightlifting 58 kg total
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Pascale Dorcelus Weightlifting 63 kg snatch
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Daniel Igali Wrestling 74 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Guivi Sissaouri Wrestling 60 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Dean Schmeichel Wrestling 96 kg
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nicholas Ugoalah Wrestling 84 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Blythe Hartley Diving 1 m Springboard
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Émilie Heymans Diving 3 m Springboard
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Émilie Heymans Diving 10 m Platform
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Philippe Gagnon Swimming 50 m EAD freestyle
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Mike Mintenko Swimming 100 m butterfly
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Morgan Knabe Swimming 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Brian Johns Swimming 400 m individual medley
Silver medal icon.svg SilverCanadian team Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Stéphanie Dixon Swimming 50 m EAD freestyle
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Stéphanie Dixon Swimming 100 m EAD freestyle
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Jennifer Carroll Swimming 50 m backstroke
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Shane Niemi Track & Road 400 m
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kwaku Boateng Field & Combined High Jump
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Scott Russell Field & Combined Javelin Throw
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Jason Tunks Field & Combined Discus Throw
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Diane Cummins Track & Road 800 m
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Andrew Kooner Boxing Bantamweight 54 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver David Cadieux Boxing Super Heavyweight over 91 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Seamus McGrath Mountain biking Men's Cross country
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Lori-Ann Muenzer Track cycling Women's Sprint 1000 m Individual
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sue Palmer-Komar Road bicycle racing Women's Road Race
Silver medal icon.svg Silver David Kikuchi Gymnastics Men's Parallel Bars
Silver medal icon.svg SilverCanadian team Gymnastics Men's All Round Team Event
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Catherine Roberge Judo Women's u/70 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Keith Morgan Judo Men's u/90 kg
Silver medal icon.svg SilverCanadian team Lawn Bowls Women's Fours
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Dorothy Hare Shooting Women's Air Pistol Individual
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sharon Bowes & Jacklyn Mecredy Shooting Women's Air Rifle Pairs
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Cynthia Meyer & Susan Nattrass Shooting Women's Double Trap Pairs
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Wenguan Johnny Huang Table Tennis Men's Singles
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Julien Galipeau Weightlifting 94 kg clean and jerk
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akos Sandor Weightlifting 105 kg snatch
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akos Sandor Weightlifting 105 kg clean and jerk
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akos Sandor Weightlifting 105 kg total
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Karine Turcotte Weightlifting 48 kg snatch
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Karine Turcotte Weightlifting 48 kg clean and jerk
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Karine Turcotte Weightlifting 48 kg total
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Maryse Turcotte Weightlifting 58 kg snatch
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Eric Ronald Kirschner Wrestling 120 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Mikheil Japaridze Wrestling 55 kg
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Graham Neal Ewers Wrestling 66 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Alexandre Despatie Diving 10 m Platform
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Blythe Hartley Diving 10 m Platform
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Benoît Huot Swimming 50 m EAD freestyle
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Rick Say Swimming 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Mike Brown Swimming 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeCanadian team Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeCanadian team Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Danielle Campo Swimming 50 m EAD freestyle
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kirby Cote Swimming 100 m EAD freestyle
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jennifer Button Swimming 100 m butterfly
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Marianne Limpert Swimming 200 m individual medley
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeCanadian team Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Pierre Browne Track & Road 100 m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Tim Berrett Track & Road 50 km walk
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Karlene Haughton Track & Road 400 m hurdles
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Nicole Forrester Field & Combined High Jump
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Stephanie McCann Field & Combined Pole Vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sébastien Gauthier Boxing Flyweight 51 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Benoît Gaudet Boxing Featherweight 57 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Michael Walchuk Boxing Middleweight 75 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Lori-Ann Muenzer Track cycling Women's 500m Track time trial
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Clara Hughes Track cycling Women's 24 km Points Race
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Lyne Bessette Road bicycle racing Women's Individual time trial
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kylie Stone Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Vanessa Meloche Gymnastics Women's Uneven Bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Vanessa Meloche Gymnastics Women's Vault
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeCanadian team Gymnastics Women's All Round Team Event
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Alexander Jeltkov Gymnastics Men's Horizontal or High Bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Alexander Jeltkov Gymnastics Men's All Round Individual
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Luce Baillargeon Judo Women's u/57 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jacynthe Maloney Judo Women's u/78 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Daniel Simard Judo Men's u/60 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze J-F Marceau Judo Men's u/73 kg
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Vivian Berkeley Lawn bowls Women's Singles Blind
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Susan Nattrass Shooting Women's Olympic Trap Individual
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Susan Nattrass & Cynthia Meyer Shooting Women's Olympic Trap Pairs
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Cynthia Meyer Shooting Women's Double Trap Individual
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sharon Bowes & Cari Johnson Shooting Women's Smallbore Rifle Three positions Pairs
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Petra Cada , Geng Lijuan , Marie-Christine Roussy & Chris Xu Table Tennis Women's Team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Scott McCarthy Weightlifting 77 kg clean and jerk
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Scott McCarthy Weightlifting 77 kg total
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Julien Galipeau Weightlifting 94 kg total
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Christine Girard Weightlifting 63 kg clean and jerk
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Pascale Dorcelus Weightlifting 63 kg total

Netball

Canada finished 10th in the netball at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. They lost to Barbados 64–30 in the 9th/10th playoff match. [1] [2]

Pool A
26 July 2002Flag of England.svg  England 87–26Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  
18:30Alex Astle Netball.svg  30
Joanne Steed Netball.svg  22
Abby Teare Netball.svg  18
Jess Garland Netball.svg  17
Report
Dulcina Wind Netball.svg  14
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  12
27 July 2002Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 101–17Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  
13:00 Daneka Wipiiti Netball.svg  39
Donna Loffhagen Netball.svg  34
Irene van Dyk Netball.svg  20/21 (95%)
Belinda Colling Netball.svg  8
Report
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  10
Patricia Carlson Netball.svg  7
29 July 2002Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 49–42Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  
15:00Mair Jones Netball.svg  37/47 (79%)
Sian Edwards Netball.svg  12
Report
Dulcina Wind Netball.svg  23
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  19
30 July 2002Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 52–49Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka  
15:00Dulcina Wind Netball.svg  30
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  22
Report
Sashika Samarasinghe Netball.svg  26 ?
Gishanthi Jayakody Netball.svg  12
Prasadi Nalika Netball.svg  10

Sources: [1] [2]

Table
PosTeamPWDLGFGAGDPts
1Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 4400365101+2648
2Flag of England.svg  England 4301278145+1336
3Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 4202138251-1134
4Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4103137286-1492
5Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 4004156291-1350

  Qualified for Major semi-finals
  Qualified for Minor Semi-finals
  Qualified for 7th/10th classification

Sources: [2] [3]

7th/10th classification
31 July 2002Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 74–39Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  
15:00Taraima Rara Netball.svg  30
Matelita Shaw Netball.svg  23
Paulini Tora Netball.svg  16
Maria Bereso Netball.svg  6
Report
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  22
Dulcina Wind Netball.svg  17
9th/10th playoff
2 August 2002Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 64–30Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  
11:00Cheryl Squires Netball.svg  39
Olivia Walcott Netball.svg  21
Laurel Browne Netball.svg  3
? Harris Netball.svg  1
Report
Dulcina Wind Netball.svg  18
Patricia Carlson Netball.svg  7
Maralyn Hope Netball.svg  5

Sources: [1] [2]

Squad
Canada roster
PlayersCoaches
NamePosDOBHeightClubNatCaps
Zoe Baldwin
Joanne Burns Millar
Sharon Butler (cc)C
Patricia CarlsonGS, GA
Dana Graf
Shawnette Hardware
Maria Hodgins
Maralyn HopeGS, GA
Shirley Anne McKenzie
Emma O'Donnell
Shelley Sung
Sheryl Thorpe
Dulcina Wind (cc)GS, GA
Head coach
  • ??



Notes
  • (c) Captain
  • (cc) Co-captain
  • (vc) Vice-captain
  • Star of life gold.svg Injury / maternity leave
  • (TRP) Temporary Replacement Player

Sources: [4] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "BBC Sport – Commonwealth Games 2002 – Statistics". news.bbc.co.uk. 4 August 2002. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Women Netball Commonwealth Games Machester (ENG) 2002". www.todor66.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. "Pool A Summary". m2002.thecgf.com. 30 July 2002. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  4. "Canada's Commonwealth Games netball team picked". www.cbc.ca. 4 April 2002. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  5. "Team Lists – 2002 Commonwealth Games". netballscoop.com. 7 October 2019. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2025.