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Born | White City, Saskatchewan | August 3, 1990
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
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Country | Canada |
Sport | Speed skating |
Marsha Hudey is a Canadian speedskater from White City, Saskatchewan. She skated in the 500 m event at the 2014 Winter Olympics. [1] [2] At the 2007 Canada Winter Games Hudey won two gold medals as a competitor for Saskatchewan.
Hudey qualified to compete for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [3] [4] [5]
Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time.
Cindy Klassen, is a Canadian retired long track speed skater. She is a six-time medallist having achieved one gold, two silver, three bronze at the Winter Olympics.
Charles Hamelin is a Canadian short track speed skater. Hamelin is a 5-time Olympic medallist having won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze during the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. He is also a 2-time world champion over the 500 m distance, having won those championships in 2007 and 2009, a 3-time world champion over the 1500 metre distance, having won those championships in 2014, 2018 and 2021, and a 2-time world champion over the 1000 metre distance in 2016 and 2018, and also led Canada to 5 world relay titles. Hamelin is the 2014 overall World Cup season winner, and the 2018 overall World Champion, giving him all the achievements available in the sport.
Denny Morrison is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. He is an Olympic champion as a member of Canada's men's team pursuit, an event which he also won silver in at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Morrison won his first individual Olympic medal in Sochi when he won a silver in the men's 1000 m after teammate Gilmore Junio selflessly gave up his spot in order for Morrison, who fell at the national qualification event, failed to originally qualify. He won a second individual medal at those games, a bronze in the 1500 m. With four total Olympic medals, Morrison shares the record for the most medals of any Canadian male long track speed skaters along with Gaétan Boucher.
Kevin Overland, or Kevin Crockett is a Canadian former Olympic and ISU Speed Skating World Cup medallist and present-day Speed Skating Canada national sprint team coach. He won the Olympic bronze medal in the 500 metres event at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Crockett also set two world records during his career as a skater.
William Christian Dutton is a Canadian speed skater. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and raised in Humboldt Saskatchewan Dutton began training full-time with the Calgary Olympic Oval program at age 17. He has represented Canada at the ISU World Junior Championships, World Sprint Championships and the 2014 Olympics in Sochi where he raced in the 500 and 1000.
Olivier Jean is a three time Olympian who represented Canada in both short track and long track speed skating. Olivier Jean is a gold medalist from Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games in the men's 5000m relay. Canadian short track speed skater racing internationally from 2002 to 2015 and switched to long track speed skating competing internationally from 2015 to 2018. Olivier competed at his second Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 in short track speed skating, and for his third games switched to long track speed skating competing in the mass start at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games. He is a well-known figure for his dreadlocks and for listening to reggae, which he says makes him skate faster.
Anastasia Bucsis is a Canadian former speed skater. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the women's 500-metre competition. In addition, she participated in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for women's long track, placing 27th in the 500 metres.
Gilmore Junio is a Canadian speedskater from Calgary. He competes primarily in the short distances of 500 m and 1000 m. Junio qualified to compete at the 2014 Olympic Games as part of the Canadian team.
Vincent De Haître is a Canadian dual sport athlete competing as both a speed skater and track cyclist who has been in sport since 2000. After competing at his second Olympic games in PyeongChang De Haître made the switch back over to track cycling where he has been competing as a member of the Canadian national team since the fall of 2018 in an effort to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It is expected that De Haître will return to speed skating in August 2021 after the summer Olympics have concluded.
Kali Christ is a Canadian speed skater. She primarily skates in the middle distances of 1000 m, 1500m, as well as the mass start event. Christ represented Canada in both these events at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as well as the team pursuit event.
Kaylin Irvine is a Canadian speed skater. She competes primarily in the short distance of 1000 m. Irvine qualified to compete at the 2014 Olympic Games as part of the Canadian team where she skated in the 1000 m event.
Brianne Tutt is a Canadian speedskater from Airdrie, Alberta.
Laurent Dubreuil is a Canadian speed skater. He competes primarily in the short distances of 500 m and 1000 m. Dubreuil won his first World Cup medal during the 2014–15 season when he placed third in the World Cup stop in Seoul. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships.
Kim Boutin is a Canadian short track speed skater. Boutin won silver in the 1,000 m and bronze in the 500 m and 1,500 m events at the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeonchang, Korea. She was the first Canadian female short track speed skater to win three individual Olympic medals in a single Olympics and the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic medal in the 1,500 m. As a result of her three medal performance she was named the flag bearer for Canada at the closing ceremonies for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Boutin has also won junior and senior world championship and World Cup medals.
Canada competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25, 2018. It was the nation's 23rd appearance at the Winter Olympics, having competed at every Games since their inception in 1924. Canada competed in all sports disciplines, except Nordic combined. The chef de mission was Isabelle Charest, who was appointed in February 2017.
Isabelle Weidemann is a Canadian speed skater. She is an Olympic medallist winning silver in the 5,000 meter and bronze in the 3,000 meter at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The bronze was her first individual medal at a major international competition. Weidemann had previously won a silver and bronze medal at the 2021 and 2020 World Single Distance Championships in women's team pursuit.
Canada is competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The 2022 Winter Olympics are being held in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. Canada has competed at all 24 editions of the Winter Olympics.
Connor Howe is a Canadian professional speed skater.
Alexa Scott is a Canadian long track speed skater.