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| Born | April 6, 1979 Košice, Czechoslovakia |
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Jana Salat (born April 6, 1979) is a Canadian water polo player, who was born in Slovakia. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a member of the bronze medal winning Canada women's national water polo team at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Whynter Lamarre is a retired Canadian water polo goaltender. She began playing water polo at age 14, and graduated from McGill University. She was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Rachel Riddell is a Canadian water polo goaltender. She participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Susan Gardiner is a Canadian water polo player.
Marie Luc Arpin is a Canadian water polo player. She was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec and her home town is Saint-Lambert. and played water polo in Saint-Lambert from 1989 until 2005. She is a graduate of McGill University. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 7th place women's water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Cora Campbell is a Canadian water polo player. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She was a member of the 7th place Canadian women's water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She graduated from Riverdale High School. Her coach Pat Oaten is also a coach at the Dollard-des-Ormeaux Civic Center.
Melissa Collins is a Canadian water polo player. She was part of the fifth place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Valérie Dionne is a Canadian water polo player. She is a member of the national women's water polo team and has competed in five juvenile, 15 provincial, and 11 national championships.
Brenda Villa is an American accomplished water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. She is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals. In 2018, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
Anikó Pelle is a Hungarian and Italian water polo player who played for the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002, and the Hungary women's national team in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2000, Pelle received the Peter J. Cutino Award as the nation's top women's collegiate water polo player.
The Canada women's national water polo team represents Canada in women's international water polo competitions and friendly matches. The team is overseen by Water Polo Canada, a member of the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). In 1981 the team claimed its first international prize, winning the FINA Water Polo World Cup.
Elizabeth Anne "Betsey" Armstrong is an American water polo goalkeeper, who won gold medals with the United States women's national water polo team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games, and 2007 and 2009 world championships. She is a leading goalkeeper in Olympic water polo history, with 102 saves. Armstrong attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor and was a three-year letterwinner on her water polo team. She then went on to graduate from the University of Michigan in 2005, where she was the goalkeeper for the women's water polo team. Betsey graduated with a bachelor's degree in English language and Literature. She is currently the record holder at University of Michigan with 350 saves.
Frederike Jacobie "Mieke" Cabout is a water polo player of the Netherlands who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions.
Glencora McGhie is an Australian water polo centre back/driver. She attended the Curtin University of Technology and is a dental therapist. She competes for the Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League, and was on sides that won the league championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She has been a member of the Australia women's national water polo team on the junior and senior level. She has won gold medals at the 2011 Canada Cup and at the 2007 FINA Junior World Championships. She won silver medals at the 2010 FINA World League Super Finals and at the 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup. She won a bronze medal at the 2009 FINA World League Super Finals. She was part of the Australian water polo team that won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Margaret Ann Steffens is an American professional water polo player. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Steffens set a new Olympic record for the most goals scored by an individual player in women's water polo at the Olympic Games.
The women's water polo tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was held from 16 to 23 September 2000, with six teams competing in the debut tournament. The games were held at the Ryde Aquatic Centre and the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre. It was the first time in history that women's water polo officially competed at the Summer Olympics.
These are the rosters of all participating teams at the women's water polo tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The ten national teams were required to submit squads of 12 players. Additionally, teams could name one alternate player. In the event that a player on the submitted squad list suffered an injury or illness, that player would be able to be replaced by the player in the alternate list.
Madeline Musselman is an American water polo player. Maddie was named Woman's water polo MVP after her USA Team won gold in Tokyo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was one of the highest leading scorers with 18 goals. It is the fourth time in her career that she has been named the MVP of a major international tournament as she was named the MVP of the FINA World League Super Final in 2019 and again in 2021. She was also named the MVP of the FINA World Championships in 2017 where Team USA won gold; scored 16 goals in six games, including hat trick in 13–6 final-round win over Spain. Additionally, the four-time First-Team All-American, at UCLA, was also named the 2021 and 2022 Women's Total Player of the Year by (Total Waterpolo).
This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Canada women's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.
Axelle Crevier is a Canadian water polo player. She plays for Canada's national women's water polo team.
