• Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
  Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
  The Bobbie Rosenfeld Award is an annual award given to Canada's female athlete of the year. The sports writers of the Canadian Press first conducted a poll to determine the nation's top female in 1933, naming golfer Ada Mackenzie the winner. The CP formalized the poll into an award in 1978,...
  
   (female only)
• Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
  Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
  Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century as voted on in a 1999 survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News:-Top 10 Female Athletes:# Nancy Greene , skier# Silken Laumann , rower...
  
  
• Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
• Lionel Conacher Award
  Lionel Conacher Award
  The Lionel Conacher Award is an annual award given to Canada's male athlete of the year. The sports writers of the Canadian Press first conducted a poll to determine the nation's top athlete, of either gender, in 1932. Separate polls for the best male and female athletes were conducted beginning...
  
   (male only)
• List of members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
• Lou Marsh Trophy
  Lou Marsh Trophy
  The Lou Marsh Trophy, also known as the Lou Marsh Memorial Trophy and Lou Marsh Award, is a trophy that is awarded annually to Canada's top athlete, professional or amateur. It is awarded by a panel of journalists, with the vote taking place in December. It was first awarded in 1936...
  
  
• Velma Springstead Trophy
  Velma Springstead Trophy
  The Velma Springstead Trophy is an award presented annually to Canada's outstanding female athlete. It is named in honour of track athlete Velma Springstead whose career ended prematurely when she died from pneumonia in 1927 when only 20 years old. The Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada...
  
   (female only)

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

 

• Jean-Luc Brassard
  Jean-Luc Brassard
  Jean-Luc Brassard is a French Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the sport's debut as a medal event. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position for mogul skiers to best show...
  
  , freestyle ski – moguls, Olympic Gold Medal – 1994
• The Crazy Canucks
  Crazy Canucks
  The Crazy Canucks was a group of Canadian alpine ski racers who rose to prominence in the World Cup during the 1970s and 80s. Dave Irwin, Dave Murray, Steve Podborski, Jim Hunter and Ken Read earned themselves a reputation for fast and seemingly reckless skiing....
  
  , a group of downhill racers who were extraordinarily successful in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
  • Dave Irwin
    Dave Irwin
    Dave Irwin is a former alpine ski racer who represented Canada at two Winter Olympic Games and won a World Cup. He was one of the "Crazy Canucks", a group of Canadian downhill racers who rose to prominence on the World Cup circuit in the late 1970s...
    
    
  • Dave Murray
    Dave Murray (skier)
    Dave Murray was an alpine ski racer. He was noted for being a member of the Crazy Canucks, the Canadian downhill racers of the late 1970s and early 1980s known for their fearless racing style...
    
    
  • Steve Podborski
    Steve Podborski
    Stephen Gregory Podborski, is a Canadian former World Cup and Olympic downhill ski racer with Ukrainian ancestry.-Racing career:...
    
    , Canada's only overall World Cup winner
  • Ken Read
    Ken Read
    Ken Read, CM is a retired Canadian Olympic alpine ski racer, Corporate Director, sport advocate and international sports leader....
    
    , the first Canadian male to win on the World Cup circuit
  • Todd Brooker
    Todd Brooker
    Todd Brooker is a former alpine ski racer from Canada and is a ski commentator on television.-World Cup Career:...
    
    
• Nancy Greene
  Nancy Greene
  Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...
  
  , alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1968
• Ann Heggtveit, world and 1960 Winter Olympics
  1960 Winter Olympics
  The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held between February 18 and 28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. In 1955 at the 50th IOC meeting, the organizing committee made the surprise choice to award Squaw Valley as...
  
   ski champion
• Kerrin Lee-Gartner
  Kerrin Lee-Gartner
  Kerrin Lee-Gartner is a former alpine ski racer. She was born in Trail, British Columbia, Canada.Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions...
  
  , alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1992
• Kathy Kreiner
  Kathy Kreiner
  Kathy Kreiner-Phillips is a former Canadian alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria...
  
  , alpine skiing – giant slalom,Olympic Gold Medal – 1976
• Gerry Sorensen
  Gerry Sorensen
  Gerry Sorensen is a former Canadian alpine skier.Sorensen was born on October 15, 1958 in Kimberley, British Columbia, and began skiing at the age of 10.- World Cup victories :-External links:*...
  
  , alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1982
• Melanie Turgeon
  Mélanie Turgeon
  Mélanie Turgeon is a skier and former member of the Canadian national ski team.A member of the Mont Ste. Anne ski club, Turgeon joined the Canadian national ski team in 1992 at the age of only sixteen...
  
  , alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1993
• Lucille Wheeler
  Lucille Wheeler
  Lucille Wheeler, CM is a Canadian former Alpine skiing world champion. She was born in Montreal, Quebec.-Biography:Wheeler grew up in the village of Sainte-Jovite, Quebec, in the Laurentian mountains...
  
  , alpine world ski champion
• Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele
  Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele
  Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele are identical twins and Canada's women's skiing pioneers and champions of the 1940s and 1950s. The two of them made up the entire 1948 Olympic Women’s Alpine team for Canada....
  
  , alpine ski champions of the 1940s and 1950s

Automobile racing

• Patrick Carpentier
  Patrick Carpentier
  Patrick Carpentier is a retired Canadian race car driver. He is best known for his career in the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series. In 2009, Patrick shared the #36 of Tommy Baldwin Racing with Mike Skinner and ran Michael Waltrip's #55 Toyota Camry in the road course races in the...
  
  
• Ron Fellows
  Ron Fellows
  Ron Fellows is an accomplished Canadian SCCA Trans-Am, IMSA, and American Le Mans Series driver, and a NASCAR Road course ringer.-Early career:...
  
  , 24 Hours of Le Mans
  24 Hours of Le Mans
  The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's oldest sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since near the town of Le Mans, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency, race teams have to balance speed against the cars' ability to run for 24 hours without sustaining...
  
   GTS class winner
• Scott Goodyear
  Scott Goodyear
  Scott Goodyear is a former race car driver from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Goodyear ran the IRL and Champ Car series during his career from 1987, winning the Michigan 500 in 1992 and 1994...
  
  
• Dennis Grant
  Dennis Grant
  Dennis Grant is team principal, engineer, and driver of . He was born 1970 in Quesnel, British Columbia and is currently a resident of Windsor, Ontario....
  
  , SCCA ProSolo Street Modified Champion & Honda Street Champion 2002
• Greg Moore
  Greg Moore (race car driver)
  Greg Moore was a racecar driver who competed in the Indy Lights and CART World Series, where he had great success with several wins in both series and a championship in the 1995 Indy Lights series...
  
  , (1975–1999)
• Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy
  Paul Tracy is a professional automobile racer who has competed in CART, the ChampCar World Series and the IndyCar Series...
  
   CART Champion 2003
• Gilles Villeneuve
  Gilles Villeneuve
  Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve , was a Canadian racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in snowmobile racing in his native province of Quebec...
  
  , (1950–1982)
• Jacques Villeneuve
  Jacques Villeneuve
  Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, , is a Canadian musician and automobile racing driver. He is the son of the late Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of his uncle...
  
  , (born 1971), son of Gilles, Formula 1 World Champion 1997, Indy 500 Winner 1995, CART Champion 1995

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 

• Reggie Cleveland
  Reggie Cleveland
  Reginald Leslie "Reggie" Cleveland is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.Cleveland was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers. He ended his career with 105 wins, with a 3.73 ERA and 930 strikeouts. Reggie...
  
  
• Ferguson Jenkins
  Ferguson Jenkins
  Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins, CM, is a Canadian former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was a three-time All-Star and the 1971 NL Cy Young Award winner. In 1991, Jenkins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. During a 19-year career, he pitched for four different teams,...
  
   – MLB Hall of Fame member
• Joseph Lannin
  Joseph Lannin
  Joseph John Lannin was a Canadian-born American baseball entrepreneur.-Biography:He was born in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish immigrants....
  
   – owner of the Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
   who signed Babe Ruth
  Babe Ruth
  George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935...
  
  
• Kirk McCaskill
  Kirk McCaskill
  Kirk Edward McCaskill is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher and a retired professional hockey player....
  
  
• Terry Puhl
  Terry Puhl
  -See also:*List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases*List of Major League Baseball players from Canada*UHV Jaguars-External links:...
  
  
• Goody Rosen – MLB All-Star outfielder
• George Selkirk
  George Selkirk
  George Alexander Selkirk was a Canadian outfielder and front office executive in Major League Baseball. In 1935, Selkirk succeeded the legendary Babe Ruth as the right fielder of the New York Yankees...
  
   - succeeded Babe Ruth in right field for NY Yankees
• Adam Stern
  Adam Stern
  Adam James Stern is a Canadian Major League Baseball outfielder who is presently a free agent.He bats left-handed, and throws right-handed. He was dubbed the "Canadian Babe Ruth" by Cleveland Indians outfielder Trot Nixon. Stern is the second Jewish player from Canada in major league history....
  
   – MLB outfielder
• Larry Walker
  Larry Walker
  Larry Kenneth Robert Walker is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1989 through 2005, Walker played for the Montreal Expos , Colorado Rockies , and St. Louis Cardinals...
  
   - 1997 NL
  National League
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...
  
   MVP
  MLB Most Valuable Player Award
  The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award is an annual Major League Baseball award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League. Since 1931, it has been awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America...
  
  
• Éric Gagné
  Éric Gagné
  Éric Serge Gagné is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.Signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in 1995, Gagné began his career as a starting pitcher...
  
   – 2003 NL
  National League
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...
  
   Cy Young Award
  Cy Young Award
  The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball , one each for the American League and National League . The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955...
  
  

Current players

• Jason Bay
  Jason Bay
  Jason Raymond Bay is a Canadian professional baseball player. An outfielder, he currently plays for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball...
  
   – 2004 NL
  National League
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...
  
   Rookie of the Year
  MLB Rookie of the Year Award
  In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America . The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946...
  
  
• Erik Bedard
  Erik Bedard
  Érik Joseph Bédard is a free agent Canadian professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball.Bédard previously pitched for the Baltimore Orioles and Seattle Mariners. With Baltimore, he was the staff ace, setting the franchise single-season strikeouts per nine innings record at 10.93 in...
  
  
• Rheal Cormier
  Rheal Cormier
  Rhéal Paul Cormier is a Canadian former Major League Baseball pitcher.He attended Community College of Rhode Island in Warwick, Rhode Island, and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 6th round of the 1988 amateur draft...
  
  
• Jesse Crain
  Jesse Crain
  Jesse Alan Crain is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball.-High school and college:...
  
  
• Ryan Dempster
  Ryan Dempster
  Ryan Scott Dempster is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Dempster bats and throws right-handed. He has been both a starter and a reliever in his career.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Aaron Guiel
  Aaron Guiel
  Aaron Colin Guiel is a professional baseball outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has also played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees .-Minor leagues and Mexico:...
  
  
• Rich Harden
  Rich Harden
  James Richard Harden is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher.-Early years:Harden attended Claremont Secondary School in Victoria, British Columbia. He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 38th round of the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft...
  
  
• Blake Hawksworth
  Blake Hawksworth
  Blake Edward Hawksworth is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is 6' 3" and weighs 195 pounds.-Career:...
  
  
• Corey Koskie
  Corey Koskie
  Cordel Leonard "Corey" Koskie is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.-Baseball career:...
  
  
• George Kottaras
  George Kottaras
  George Kottaras is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. Kottaras attended Milliken Mills High School in Markham, Ontario, Canada.-Professional baseball career:...
  
  
• Pete Laforest
  Pete Laforest
  Pierre-Luc "Pete" Laforest is a baseball catcher for the Quebec Capitales. He is a graduate of Fort Scott Community College. He was a draft pick of the Montreal Expos, but has also played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the San Diego Padres, and the Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  
• Brett Lawrie
  Brett Lawrie
  Brett R. Lawrie is a Canadian professional baseball third baseman with the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. He was traded to the Blue Jays from the Milwaukee Brewers on December 5, 2010 in a deal for starting pitcher Shaun Marcum...
  
  
• Adam Loewen
  Adam Loewen
  Adam Alexander Loewen is a Canadian professional baseball outfielder and infielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed...
  
  
• Russell Martin
  Russell Martin
  Russell Nathan Jeanson Coltrane Martin, Jr is a Canadian Major League Baseball catcher for the New York Yankees.Martin became the everyday catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers immediately upon his Major League debut, and continued in that role for nearly 5 years...
  
  
• Scott Mathieson
  Scott Mathieson
  Scott William Mathieson is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent....
  
  
• Justin Morneau
  Justin Morneau
  Justin Ernest George Morneau is a Canadian Major League Baseball first baseman for the Minnesota Twins. At 6 feet 4 inches and 225 lbs, Morneau was originally drafted as a catcher by the Twins in 1999. He converted to first base in the minor leagues and made his MLB debut in 2003...
  
   – 2006 American League MVP
• Jeff Francis
  Jeff Francis
  Jeffrey William Francis is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mike Nickeas
  Mike Nickeas
  Michael James Nickeas is a Major League Baseball catcher for the New York Mets....
  
  
• Pete Orr
  Pete Orr
  Peterson Thomas "Pete" Orr is a Canadian professional baseball infielder who is currently in the Philadelphia Phillies organziation.-College:Orr attended Galveston Community College in Galveston, Texas...
  
  
• Paul Quantrill
  Paul Quantrill
  Paul John Quantrill is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He earned a reputation for being very durable and having impeccable control. He regularly appeared in 80 or more games a season and did not walk more than 25 batters in a season since...
  
  
• Ryan Radmanovich
  Ryan Radmanovich
  Ryan Ashley Radmanovich is a baseball right fielder.Radmanovich is a graduate of Pepperdine University. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1993 amateur entry draft...
  
  
• Chris Reitsma
  Chris Reitsma
  Christopher Michael Reitsma is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played seven seasons in the majors, from until , with the Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, and Seattle Mariners.-Red Sox and Reds:...
  
  
• Matt Stairs
  Matt Stairs
  Matthew Wade Stairs is a former Canadian professional Major League baseball outfielder, first baseman, designated hitter, and pinch hitter. He played for 12 different teams, a major league record he shares with Octavio Dotel, Mike Morgan and Ron Villone...
  
  
• Adam Stern
  Adam Stern
  Adam James Stern is a Canadian Major League Baseball outfielder who is presently a free agent.He bats left-handed, and throws right-handed. He was dubbed the "Canadian Babe Ruth" by Cleveland Indians outfielder Trot Nixon. Stern is the second Jewish player from Canada in major league history....
  
  
• Mark Teahen
  Mark Teahen
  Mark Thomas Teahen is an American-Canadian professional baseball infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball....
  
  
• Scott Thorman
  Scott Thorman
  Scott Robert Thorman is a professional baseball first baseman. Thorman was drafted in the first round, 30th overall in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft by the Atlanta Braves...
  
  
• Joey Votto
  Joey Votto
  Joseph Daniel "Joey" Votto, is a Canadian Major League Baseball first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. He is the 2010 NL MVP, the recipient of the National League Hank Aaron Award for 2010, and won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's athlete of the year in 2010.-Early life:Votto was born on...
  
   – 2010 National League MVP
• Jeff Zimmerman
  Jeff Zimmerman
  Jeffrey Ross Zimmerman is a former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball from 1999-2001 for the Texas Rangers.-Independent baseball:...
  
  

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 

• Joel Anthony
  Joel Anthony
  Joel Vincent Anthony is a Canadian professional basketball player in the NBA who is currently a member of the Miami Heat. He is also a key member of the Canadian national men's basketball team.-High school career:...
  
  
• Samuel Dalembert
  Samuel Dalembert
  Samuel Davis Dalembert is a Haitian Canadian professional basketball player who most recently played center for the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Dalembert began playing in Montreal, Quebec and played college basketball at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, United States...
  
  
• Steve Nash
  Steve Nash
  Stephen John "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC is a South African-born Canadian professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association . Nash enjoyed a successful high-school basketball career, and he was eventually given a scholarship by Santa Clara...
  
   2005, 2006 NBA MVP, 2007 MVP runner-up
• Jamaal Magloire
  Jamaal Magloire
  Jamaal Dane Magloire is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association . The , center was selected out of the University of Kentucky by the Charlotte Hornets with the 19th overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft, after withdrawing...
  
   Played in the All-Star Game 2003–04
• Andy Rautins
  Andy Rautins
  Andrew Jay "Andy" Rautins is a , 205 lbs. guard for the New York Knicks of the NBA. He was born in Syracuse, New York. He is a Canadian citizen and played for the Syracuse Orange and Canadian Men's National Basketball team...
  
  
• Tristan Thompson
  Tristan Thompson
  Tristan Trevor James Thompson is a Canadian basketball player who played for the 2010–11 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team. He is 6'9" and weighs 225 pounds. Thompson plays as a power forward...
  
  

• Tammy Sutton-Brown
  Tammy Sutton-Brown
  Tamara "Tammy" Kim Sutton-Brown is a Canadian professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. Her primary position is center.-High school years:...
  
  

• Rick Fox
  Rick Fox
  Ulrich Alexander "Rick" Fox is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 2004.-Early life:...
  
   won three NBA Championship rings in 2000, 2001 and 2002 as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers
• James Naismith
  James Naismith
  The first game of "Basket Ball" was played in December 1891. In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops,...
  
  , (1861–1939), Teacher who invented the game of Basketball
• Todd MacCulloch
  Todd MacCulloch
  Todd Carlyle MacCulloch is a retired Canadian professional basketball player. He was a member of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets in the NBA.-Basketball career:...
  
  
• Norm Baker
  Norm Baker
  Norman Henry Baker was a Canadian basketball and lacrosse player, voted Canada's top basketball player of the first half of the 20th century in a Canadian Press poll in December 1950....
  
   Inducted into Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979
• Hank Biasatti
  Hank Biasatti
  Henry Arcado Biasatti was a Canadian National Basketball Association player and a Major League Baseball first baseman...
  
   Inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.
• Ron Crevier
  Ron Crevier
  Ronald Joseph Oscar Camille Crevier is a former professional basketball player. He played part of one season in the National Basketball Association and in the early 1980s for the Canadian national men's basketball team.Crevier played for Dawson College CEGEP before enrolling at Boston College,...
  
  
• Stewart Granger
  Stewart Granger (basketball)
  Stewart Francis Granger is a Canadian former National Basketball Association player and Canadian national team member....
  
  
• Lars Hansen
  Lars Hansen
  Lars Erik Hansen is a retired Danish-Canadian professional National Basketball Association player....
  
  
• Brian Heaney
• Bob Houbregs
  Bob Houbregs
  Robert J. "Bob" Houbregs is a former professional basketball player.A 6'8", 225 pound forward-center, Houbregs attended the University of Washington from 1949 to 1953. In 1952, Houbregs was a Second Team Consensus All-America selection...
  
   Inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame on May 5, 1987
• Leo Rautins
  Leo Rautins
  Leo R. Rautins is a former professional basketball player, the former head coach of the Canadian national men's basketball team, and an NBA analyst for the Toronto Raptors.Rautins was a star in high school for St...
  
  
• Mike Smrek
  Mike Smrek
  Michael Frank Smrek is a retired Canadian professional basketball player. He played in the NBA.- College career :...
  
  
• Gino Sovran
  Gino Sovran
  Gino Sovran is a former National Basketball Association player.Born in Windsor, Ontario Sovran attended Kennedy Collegiate Institute and was a top basketball player at Assumption College, scoring more than 1,000 points over three seasons, and playing as team captain in the 1943-44 and 1944-45...
  
  
• Ernie Vandeweghe
  Ernie Vandeweghe
  Ernest Maurice "Ernie" Vandeweghe Jr. is a physician, a United States Air Force veteran and a retired professional basketball player. He is best known for playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA and for the athletic successes of his family...
  
  
• Bill Wennington
  Bill Wennington
  William Percey Wennington is a retired Canadian basketball player in the National Basketball Association who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. A center, he was also a member of two Canadian Olympic Basketball Teams and the 1983 World University Games team that won gold against...
  
   won three championships with the Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997 and 1998)
• Jim Zoet
  Jim Zoet
  Jim Zoet is a former National Basketball Association player.Zoet's college career consisted of playing time both in the USA for Kent State University and in Canada for Lakehead University...
  
  

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

 

• Maxie Berger
  Maxie Berger
  Maxie Berger was a Canadian boxer. He was born in Montreal, Canada.He fought as a flyweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight from 1935–46, and in 134 fights had a record of: Won 99 , Lost 24, Drawn 9.Berger was selected for the 1934 British Empire Games...
  
  , world champion junior welterweight
• Lascelles Brown
  Lascelles Brown
  Lascelles Brown is a Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder who has competed since 1999 . Competing in three Winter Olympics, he is the first Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal...
  
  , Olympic Silver Medal – 2006
• Vic Emery
  Vic Emery
  Victor Emery is a Canadian businessman, gold medallist at the Olympic Winter Games and a world champion bobsledder. He was born in Montreal, Quebec....
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 1964
• Kaillie Humphries
  Kaillie Humphries
  Kaillie Humphries is a Canadian bobsledder. Humphries has competed since 2004 and currently slides with Heather Moyse as her brakeman...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 2010
• Pierre Lueders
  Pierre Lueders
  Pierre Fritz Lueders is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from 1990 to 2010. He piloted both two-man and four-man bobsleigh, retiring after the 2010 Winter Olympics...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 1998 and Silver Medal – 2006
• Sammy Luftspring
  Sammy Luftspring
  Sammy Luftspring was a Jewish Canadian boxer. A former Canadian Welterweight Champion and highly ranked in the Welterweight class during his career, Luftspring was forced to retire from the sport due to an eye injury. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.-Early...
  
  , welterweight boxing champion, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
  Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
  Canada's Sports Hall of Fame is a hall of fame established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport." It is located at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta...
  
  
• David MacEachern
  David MacEachern
  David "Dave" MacEachern is a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the two-man event at Nagano in 1998...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 1998
• Heather Moyse
  Heather Moyse
  Heather Moyse is a Canadian athlete, representing Canada in international competition as a bobsledder and rugby union player, and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate level in rugby, soccer and track and field.-Awards:...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 2010

Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 

• Tommy Burns
  Tommy Burns (boxer)
  Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defenses despite often being the underdog due to his size. Burns famously challenged all comers as Heavyweight Champion, leading to...
  
  , (1881–1955), World Heavyweight boxing
  Boxing
  Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
  
   Champion
• George Chuvalo
  George Chuvalo
  George Louis Chuvalo, CM is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979. He is often considered to have had the greatest chin in the history of boxing and to be one of its most durable fighters...
  
  
• Yvon Durelle
  Yvon Durelle
  Yvon Durelle , born in Baie-Ste-Anne, New Brunswick, Canada, was a French Canadian champion boxer.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Willie DeWitt
• Arturo Gatti
  Arturo Gatti
  Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...
  
  , former WBC world Super Lightweight champion.
• Otis Grant
  Otis Grant
  Otis Grant is a Canadian retired boxer. As an amateur he won a silver medal for Canada at the 1987 Pan American Games, losing to Cuba's Angel Espinosa in the final.-Professional career:...
  
  , Current WBC Super Middleweight international champion.
• Sam Langford
  Sam Langford
  Sam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...
  
  
• Mark Leduc
  Mark Leduc
  Mark Leduc was a boxer from Canada, who won a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.- Olympic results :*Defeated Godfrey Wakaabu 9-2*Defeated Dillon Carew 5-0...
  
  
• Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...
  
  , grew up in Canada, and competed for Canada in the Olympics in 1988, winning a gold medal.
• Eric Lucas
  Eric Lucas
  Éric Lucas is an active professional boxer of height 183 cm.Lucas turned pro in 1991 and came up short in his first two title shots, against WBC Light Heavyweight Title holder Fabrice Tiozzo in 1996 and IBF Super Middleweight Title holder Roy Jones Jr later that year...
  
  , Former WBC world champion (1999–2001) Supermiddleweight.
• Steve Molitor
  Steve Molitor
  Steve Molitor is a Canadian professional boxer. He is the former International Boxing Federation Junior featherweight champion. He has a record of 33–2 .- Career history :...
  
  , Current IBF Super Bantamweight champion, he has a record of 25–0 (10)
• Jean Pascal
  Jean Pascal
  Jean-Thenistor Pascal is a Canadian professional boxer. He is the former WBC, IBO and Ring magazine light heavyweight champion of the world.-Early life:...
  
  , Current IBO, WBC, Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Champion of the World.
• Shane Sutcliffe
  Shane Sutcliffe
  Shane Sutcliffe is a former Canadian boxing champion. He is referred to as "Kid Thunder" by his fans.-Career:Sutcliffe was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, before moving to Nanaimo, British Columbia at the age of 12.After winning 22 "Toughman...
  
  , former Canadian Heavyweight champion, defeated former world champion "Neon" Leon Spinks
  Leon Spinks
  Leon Spinks is a former American boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins, and was the former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion of the world...
  
   by 8 round decision in 1994.
• Trevor Berbick
  Trevor Berbick
  Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican-Canadian heavyweight boxer who fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. Berbick briefly held the WBC heavyweight championship in 1986 , before losing it to 20-year old Mike Tyson, via 2nd-round TKO...
  
  , Former WBC Heavyweight champion
• Donovan Ruddock
  Donovan Ruddock
  Donovan Ruddock , also known as Razor Ruddock, is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer. He was a promising Heavyweight of the late 1980s and early 1990s...
  
  
• Kirk Johnson

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 

• Ian Billcliff
  Ian Billcliff
  Ian Shaw Billcliff is a Canadian cricketer. Though born in Canada, he grew up in New Zealand.Billcliff made his debut in first-class cricket in 1991 for Otago in New Zealand domestic cricket, and in 1992 he played twice for the New Zealand Under-19 team. He later played for Wellington from 1995 to...
  
  
• John Davison
• Jimmy Hansra
  Jimmy Hansra
  Amarbir Singh Hansra is a Canadian cricketer born in Ludhiana, India.He is a middle-order batsman and occasional offspinner. He began playing cricket at a very young age at school, and had an interest for the sport throughout his childhood...
  
  
• Ashish Bagai
  Ashish Bagai
  Ashish Bagai is the captain of the Canadian cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman who specializes as a wicketkeeper. He studied at St. Columba's School during his brief stay in Delhi, India...
  
  

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

 

• Beckie Scott
  Beckie Scott
  Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, MSM is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu....
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal – 2002
• Brian McKeever
  Brian McKeever
  Brian McKeever is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete. He began skiing at the age of three and started competing at thirteen. At 19 he began losing his vision due to Stargardt's disease. At the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics he competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon...
  
  , (born 1979), multiple Paralympic Gold and Silver Medals
• Robin McKeever
  Robin McKeever
  Robin McKeever is a Canadian cross country skier, sighted guide, Paralympian and Olympian.He participated in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....
  
  , (born 1973), multiple Paralympic Gold and Silver Medals

Curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 

• Jan Betker
  Jan Betker
  Janice "Jan" Betker is a Canadian curler. Betker is best known for playing third on the Sandra Schmirler rink that won three world championships and an Olympic gold medal in the 1990s...
  
  
• Kerry Burtnyk
  Kerry Burtnyk
  Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...
  
  
• Mark Dacey
  Mark Dacey
  Mark Dacey is a Canadian curler from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan....
  
  
• Randy Ferbey
  Randy Ferbey
  Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....
  
  
• Suzanne Gaudet
• Brad Gushue
  Brad Gushue
  Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...
  
  
• Jenn Hanna
  Jenn Hanna
  Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Mike Harris
  Mike Harris (curler)
  Mike Harris is a Canadian curler. Mike Harris is the golf professional at The Donalda Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  
• Guy Hemmings
  Guy Hemmings
  Guy Hemmings is a Canadian curler from Sorel. Hemmings is a popular curler who gained prominence after reaching the final of the Brier in 1998 and 1999...
  
  
• Glenn Howard
  Glenn Howard
  Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...
  
  
• Russ Howard
  Russ Howard
  Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...
  
  
• Colleen Jones
  Colleen Jones
  Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...
  
  
• Jennifer Jones
  Jennifer Jones (curler)
  Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...
  
  
• Cathy King
  Cathy King
  Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...
  
  
• Shannon Kleibrink
  Shannon Kleibrink
  Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...
  
  
• Kelley Law
  Kelley Law
  Kelley Law formerly known as Kelley Atkins and Kelley Owen is a Canadian curler from Coquitlam, British Columbia...
  
  
• Ed Lukowich
  Ed Lukowich
  Edward "Ed" Lukowich is a former champion curler. Lukowich is a two-time Brier champion. In 1986 his team won the World Curling Championship....
  
  
• Kevin Martin
• Jean-Michel Ménard
  Jean-Michel Ménard
  Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.-Profile:...
  
  
• Sherry Middaugh
  Sherry Middaugh
  Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....
  
  
• Wayne Middaugh
  Wayne Middaugh
  Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...
  
  
• John Morris
  John Morris (curler)
  John Morris is a Canadian curler, and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist from Chestermere, Alberta. Morris plays third for the Kevin Martin team. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom...
  
  
• Dave Nedohin
• Scott Patterson
• Ernie Richardson
  Ernie Richardson
  Ernest M. Richardson, CM is a Canadian and world curling champion.Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold, Wes Richardson, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues...
  
  
• Pat Ryan
• Sandra Schmirler
  Sandra Schmirler
  Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM , was a Canadian curler, who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler skipped her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year curling was a medal sport...
  
  , (1963–2000)
• Kelly Scott
  Kelly Scott
  Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...
  
  
• Jeff Stoughton
  Jeff Stoughton
  Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...
  
  
• Ed Werenich
  Ed Werenich
  Edward Werenich is a Canadian curler. Nicknamed "The Wrench," Werenich has been known to be a colourful and outspoken character. Outside of curling, Werenich worked as a firefighter....
  
  

Figure skating

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

 

• Kurt Browning
  Kurt Browning
  Kurt Browning, CM is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is a four-time World Champion and four-time Canadian national champion.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Patrick Chan
  Patrick Chan
  Patrick Chan is a Canadian figure skater.He is the 2011 World Champion, 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2009 Four Continents champion, the 2009 and 2010 World silver medalist, the 2007 World Junior silver medalist and a four-time Canadian Champion.At the 2010 Canadian Championships, he...
  
  
• Toller Cranston
  Toller Cranston
  Toller Shalitoe Montague Cranston, CM is a Canadian figure skater and painter. He is the 1971-1976 Canadian national champion, the 1974 World bronze medalist, and the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist....
  
  
• Brian Orser
  Brian Orser
  Brian Ernest Orser, OC is a Canadian retired competitive and professional figure skater. He is the 1984 and 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1987 World champion and the 1981-1988 Canadian national champion....
  
  
• Donald Jackson
  Donald Jackson
  Donald George Jackson, CM is a retired Canadian figure skater. He captured four Canadian titles and a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Elizabeth Manley
  Elizabeth Manley
  Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1988 World silver medalist, and three-time Canadian champion.-Early life and training:...
  
  
• Cynthia Phaneuf
  Cynthia Phaneuf
  Cynthia Phaneuf is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2004 and 2011 Canadian national champion and a three-time Canadian silver medalist...
  
  
• Joannie Rochette
  Joannie Rochette
  Joannie Rochette is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2009 World silver medalist, the 2008 and 2009 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2004 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a six-time Canadian national champion.-Personal life:Rochette was born in...
  
  
• Jennifer Robinson
• Louis Rubenstein
  Louis Rubenstein
  Louis Rubenstein was a Canadian figure skater, sportsman and politician. Rubenstein is considered the "Father of Canadian Figure Skating." After retirement from skating in 1892, Rubenstein became involved in the sports of bowling, curling, and cycling...
  
  , (pre-Olympic) World Championship gold, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
• Jamie Salé
  Jamie Salé
  Jamie Rae Salé is a Canadian pair skater. With partner David Pelletier, she is a 2002 Olympic Champion and the 2001 World Champion. Salé & Pelletier's Olympic gold medal was shared with the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating...
  
   & David Pelletier
  David Pelletier
  David Jacques Pelletier is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his partner Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games...
  
  , pairs, Olympic Gold
• Emanuel Sandhu
  Emanuel Sandhu
  Emanuel Sandhu is a Canadian figure skater and dancer. He is a three-time Canadian national champion and the 2004 Grand Prix champion.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Barbara Ann Scott, Olympic Gold Medal
• Elvis Stojko
  Elvis Stojko
  Elvis Stojko, MSC, MSM is a Canadian figure skater. He is a three-time World champion , two-time Olympic silver medalist , and seven-time Canadian champion ....
  
  
• Barbara Wagner
  Barbara Wagner
  Barbara Aileen Wagner is a former Canadian pair skater who competed with Robert Paul. The couple captured five Canadian titles and four world titles, and capped their career by winning the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.After her competitive career, she married fellow skater James Grogan...
  
   & Robert Paul
  Robert Paul
  Robert Paul was a Canadian figure skater, who competed in pairs with Barbara Wagner. He was born in Toronto. From their start as a team in 1952, they captured five Canadian titles and four world titles, and capped their career by winning the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.After skating as...
  
   – (pairs)
• Tracey Wainman
  Tracey Wainman
  Tracey Wainman is a Canadian figure skater. She won the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1981 and 1986.Wainman first came to international prominence at the age of 12 in 1980, when she placed third at the Canadian Championships and was controversially selected to compete as Canada's sole...
  
  
• Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Vancouver 2010– Olympic Gold

Football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

 

• Roger Aldag
  Roger Aldag
  Roger Aldag was a Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1976 through 1992. He was part of the Grey Cup championship-winning Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1989...
  
  
• Oshiomogho Atogwe
  Oshiomogho Atogwe
  Oshiomogho Isaac "O.J." Atogwe is a Canadian safety of American football for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Stanford.-Early years:He attended high school at W.F....
  
  
• Nate Burleson
  Nate Burleson
  Nathaniel Burleson is an American football player, who currently plays wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League . Burleson played college football for the University of Nevada Wolf Pack, and was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 2003 NFL...
  
   (born 1981), Seattle Seahawks
  Seattle Seahawks
  The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team...
  
   Wide Receiver
  Wide receiver
  A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
  
  
• Noah Cantor
  Noah Cantor
  Noah Cantor was a football player in the Canadian Football League.-Biography:Cantor played five seasons with the University of Saint Mary's Huskies from 1990 through 1994, under the guidance of former Argonauts star, Larry Uteck. Cantor was a three-time CIAU All-Canadian, and two-time J.P....
  
  , DT, Canadian Football League
  Canadian Football League
  The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
  
  
• Russ Jackson
  Russ Jackson
  Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson, OC is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League...
  
  
• Bronko Nagurski
  Bronko Nagurski
  Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski was a Canadian-born American football player. He was also a successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.-Youth and collegiate career:...
  
   (1908–1990), Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   legend, member of U.S. Pro Football Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
  
• Teyo Johnson
  Teyo Johnson
  Teyo Johnson is a free agent professional American and Canadian football tight end who last played for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
  
   (born 1981), Free Agent
  Free agent
  In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....
  
   NFL Tight End
  Tight end
  The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...
  
  
• Jason David
  Jason David
  Jason Aeron Walter David is an American football cornerback and is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft...
  
  , New Orleans Saints
  New Orleans Saints
  The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....
  
  
• Shaun Suisham
  Shaun Suisham
  Shaun Christopher Suisham is a Canadian placekicker of American football for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League . He was signed by the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
  
  , Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
  
• Mark Rypien
  Mark Rypien
  Mark Robert Rypien is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the first Canadian-born quarterback to start in the NFL.-Biography:...
  
  , Former NFL quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
  
• Rueben Mayes
  Rueben Mayes
  Rueben Mayes is a Canadian who played in the National Football League from 1986 to 1993.He first gained notoriety as a running back at North Battleford Comprehensive High School in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In 1980 Mayes led the NBCHS Vikings to an undefeated season and the SHSAA 3A...
  
  , Former NFL running back
  Running back
  A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
  
  
• Normie Kwong
• Tony Gabriel
  Tony Gabriel
  Tony Gabriel is a former professional Canadian football pass receiver who played in the Canadian Football League from 1971 to 1981. He played for both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Ottawa Rough Riders...
  
  
• Vince Danielsen
  Vince Danielsen
  Vince Danielsen is a former professional Canadian football receiver for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League from 1994 to 2001. He was selected third overall in the bonus round of the 1984 Canadian College Draft.Danielsen was a West Division All-Star two times and was the Grey...
  
  
• Rocky Dipietro
  Rocky Dipietro
  Rocky DiPietro is a former Canadian Football League receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. During his 14 year career as a slotback and wide receiver, DiPietro became the CFL's all-time pass reception leader in 1989 and had a career total of 706 receptions for 9,762 yards and 45 touchdowns...
  
  
• Dave Sapunjis
  Dave Sapunjis
  David B. Sapunjis is a former wide receiver for the Calgary Stampeders from 1990-1996. Sapunjis won the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award two times and was the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian three times. He played college football at the University of Western Ontario where he was also a...
  
  
• Don Fuell
  Don Fuell
  Donald Lee Fuell an American-born football quarterback. College scouts began seeking his services when he was in the 10th grade at Marshall County High School in rural Alabama....
  
  
• Dave Ridgway
  Dave Ridgway
  David "Dave" Ridgway was a placekicker for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. His CFL career began in 1981 when he was drafted by the Montreal Alouettes. He did not make the squad that year and returned to the University of Toledo to complete his degree in Marketing...
  
  
• Ray Elgaard
  Ray Elgaard
  Raymond Elgaard is a former Canadian Football League slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1983 through 1996, including winning the 77th Grey Cup in 1989. A big man, he was noted for his reliability as a receiver and his toughness on the field...
  
  
• Lionel Conacher
  Lionel Conacher
  Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP , nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto...
  
  
• Royal Copeland
• Peter Dalla Riva
  Peter Dalla Riva
  Peter Dalla Riva, , is a former professional Canadian football player with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League at the tight end and wide receiver positions. Dalla Riva played with the Alouettes for his entire 14 year career...
  
  
• Danny Kepley
  Danny Kepley
  Daniel "Danny" Kepley, is a former star linebacker with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.Kepley played his college football at East Carolina University...
  
  
• Joe Krol
  Joe Krol
  Joe "King" Krol was a Canadian football quarterback, running back, defensive back, and placekicker/punter from 1942 to 1953 and 1955...
  
  
• Annis Stukus
  Annis Stukus
  Annis Paul Stukus was a Canadian football player, coach and general manager, and ice hockey general manager....
  
  
• Mike Vanderjagt
  Mike Vanderjagt
  Michael John "Mike" Vanderjagt , is a professional American and Canadian football placekicker and punter who has played in the Arena Football League, the Canadian Football League and National Football League...
  
   (born 1970), Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
  
   placekicker
• Troy Westwood
  Troy Westwood
  Troy Westwood is a Canadian Football League place kicker and punter who played 17 years for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers....
  
  

Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 

• Stephen Ames
  Stephen Ames
  Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada....
  
   (born in Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
  
  )
• Al Balding
  Al Balding
  Allan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955 he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Canadians Ken Black and Jules Huot had won PGA Tour events in Canada in the 1930s.Balding was born in Toronto,...
  
  
• Dave Barr
  Dave Barr (golfer)
  David Allen Barr is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Canadian Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour.Barr was born in Kelowna, British Columbia. He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was a member of the golf team. He finished as runner-up in the 1972 Canadian...
  
   winner of 2 PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
  
   events (1981 Quad Cities Open, 1987 Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic)
• Jocelyne Bourassa
  Jocelyne Bourassa
  Jocelyne Bourassa, CM is a former Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour who had a distinguished amateur career.-Amateur career:Bourassa was born in Shawinigan, Quebec...
  
   winner of the 1973 Canadian Women's Open
  Canadian Women's Open
  The CN Canadian Women's Open is a women's professional golf tournament managed by the Royal Canadian Golf Association. It has been Canada's national championship tournament since 1973, and is an official event on the LPGA Tour.-History:...
  
  
• Dawn Coe-Jones
  Dawn Coe-Jones
  Dawn Coe-Jones is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Coe-Jones was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. She won several amateur events in Canada, including the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1983...
  
  
• Gail Graham
  Gail Graham
  Gail Anderson Graham is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Graham won twice on the LPGA Tour in 1995 and 1997.-LPGA Tour wins:*1995 Fieldcrest Cannon Classic*1997 Alpine Australian Ladies Masters...
  
  
• Dan Halldorson
  Dan Halldorson
  Daniel Albert Halldorson is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Canadian Tour.Halldorson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Brandon, Manitoba. He did not attend college and turned pro in 1971. He joined the Canadian Tour in 1973 and the PGA Tour in...
  
  
• Laurie Kane
• George Knudson
  George Knudson
  George Alfred Christian Knudson, CM was a Canadian professional golfer, who along with Mike Weir holds the record for the Canadian with the most wins on the PGA Tour, with eight career victories....
  
  
• Jim Nelford
  Jim Nelford
  Jim Nelford is a Canadian professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour. He has also been a golf commentator for ESPN....
  
  
• Moe Norman
  Moe Norman
  Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer. He was widely considered the best ball striker who ever lived among the best players in the world...
  
  
• Sandra Post
  Sandra Post
  Sandra Post, CM is a Canadian professional golfer. She was the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour.-Early years, junior and amateur golf:...
  
  
• Sandy Somerville
• Mike Weir
  Mike Weir
  Michael Richard Weir, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 2001 and 2005. He is best known for winning the Masters in 2003....
  
  , (born 1970), winner of the 2003 Masters Tournament
• Jennifer Wyatt
  Jennifer Wyatt
  Jennifer Noel Wyatt is a Canadian professional golfer who formerly toured on the LPGA Tour.Wyatt was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and starting playing golf at an early age in Richmond, British Columbia out of the Quichena Golf & Country Club...
  
  , (born 1965), winner of the 1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh Classic
  Crestar-Farm Fresh Classic
  The Crestar-Farm Fresh Classic was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1979 to 1992. It was played at three different courses in Hampton Roads area of Virginia.-Tournament locations:-Winners:Crestar-Farm Fresh Classic*1992 Jennifer Wyatt...
  
  
• Richard "Dick" Zokol
  Richard Zokol
  Richard Francis "Dick" Zokol is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Canadian Tour, PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour, winning at least one event in each venue....
  
  

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

 and equestrian sports

Equestrianism

Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...

 

• Ted Atkinson
  Ted Atkinson
  Theodore Francis Atkinson was a Canadian-born American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957....
  
  , Hall of Fame
  National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
  The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...
  
   jockey
• Russell Baze
  Russell Baze
  Russell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....
  
   (born 1958), Hall of Fame jockey. Currently #2 winningest jockey in history.
• Big Ben
  Big Ben (horse)
  Big Ben was a world champion show jumping horse.-Birth and Acquisition by Ian Millar:First named "Winston", Big Ben was born at the van Hooydonk Farm in Kalmthout . Although his dam was only 15 hh, Big Ben grew to be a very large horse of 17.3 hands high...
  
  , world show-jumping champion
• Billyjojimbob
  Billyjojimbob
  Billyjojimbob was a champion Standardbred trotting gelding by Balanced Image out of Ginger Jewel by Tough Cookie.Bred in Ontario, Canada, he won many stakes races of which the highlights were the Breeders Crown event for aged trotters in track record time at Ladbrooke at The Meadows in 1991 and...
  
   – distinguished aged pacer
  Standardbred horse
  Standardbreds are a breed of horse best known for their ability to race in harness at a trot or pace instead of under saddle at a gallop. Developed in North America, the breed is now recognized worldwide for its harness racing ability...
  
  ; winner of the Elitlopp
• John Campbell
  John Campbell (harness racing driver)
  John Campbell Born in Ailsa Craig, Ontario John is currently harness racing's all time leading catch driver in money won with.Dunc Campbell and his father before him were Standardbred horsemen. Dunc had at least one son, Jack Campbell based his horses and his family near London, Ontario...
  
   – harness racing
  Harness racing
  Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait . They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, although racing under saddle is also conducted in Europe.-Breeds:...
  
   driver
• Dance Smartly
  Dance Smartly
  Dance Smartly was a Champion Thoroughbred Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame racemare who went undefeated in 1991 while winning the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to ever win a Breeders' Cup race.Bred in Ontario by Sam-Son Farm, the bay mare...
  
   – Canadian Triple Crown
  Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
  The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these Thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a Thoroughbred racehorse...
  
  , Breeders' Cup
  Breeders' Cup
  The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Thoroughbred horse races, most but not all Grade I, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982. From its inception in 1984 through 2006, it was a single-day event; starting in 2007, it expanded to two days. The location...
  
   champion
• Jim Day
  Jim Day
  James E. "Jim" Day is a Canadian Olympic equestrian show jumping champion and thoroughbred horse trainer....
  
   – Olympic equestrian Gold medalist, champion thoroughbred trainer
• Stewart Elliott
  Stewart Elliott
  Stewart Elliott is an American thoroughbred jockey.Elliott grew up in horse racing; his father was a jockey for many years, his mother rode show horses and was a riding instructor, and his uncle owns a racing stable in Canada...
  
   – thoroughbred racing jockey
• Hervé Filion
  Hervé Filion
  Hervé Filion, is a Canadian harness racer.Born in Angers, Quebec, Filion was the first driver to win over 400 races in a year in 1968 and was able to achieve this accomplishment 14 more times...
  
   – harness racing driver
• Sandy Hawley
  Sandy Hawley
  Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...
  
    Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey
• John Hayes
  John Hayes (harness racer)
  John G. Hayes , was a harness racing driver/trainer/owner.Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, he was the son of a dairy farmer who went on to become a prominent figure in harness racing and the first Canadian to be selected to the Little Brown Jug's Wall of Fame...
  
   (1917–1998), harness racing driver
• Johnny Longden
  Johnny Longden
  John Eric Longden was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta. By 1912 Longden Sr. had saved enough money to send for his wife and young son...
  
   (1907–2003), Hall of Fame jockey
• Nijinsky II
  Nijinsky II
  The racehorse Nijinsky was one of the greatest horses in Thoroughbred horse-racing history. He won the U.K. Triple Crown of racing. Retired to stud he became the Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland and the Leading broodmare sire in North America.He was bred at E. P...
  
  , last English Triple Crown
  Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
  The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these Thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a Thoroughbred racehorse...
  
   winner
• Northern Dancer
  Northern Dancer
  Northern Dancer was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
  
   – Canada's most successful and beloved race horse
• Red Pollard (1909–1981), Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...
  
  's jockey
• Strike Out
  Strike Out
  Strike Out, , North American Harness racing championStrike Out was born in 1969 at Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and is by Bret Hanover out of the mare Golden Miss....
  
   – harness racing champion
• Ron Turcotte
  Ron Turcotte
  Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973....
  
   (born 1941), Hall of Fame jockey
  Jockey
  A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...
  
   of Secretariat
• George Woolf
  George Woolf
  George Monroe Woolf , nicknamed "The Ice Man", was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild....
  
   (1910–1946), Hall of Fame jockey
• Ian Millar
  Ian Millar
  Ian Millar, CM is a Canadian show jumping world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Due to his longevity and accomplishments, he is often nicknamed "Captain Canada" in his sport. He is tied with Austrian sailor Hubert Raudaschl for most Olympic appearances .-Biography:Millar was born in Halifax,...
  
   (born 1947), owner and rider of Big Ben
  Big Ben (horse)
  Big Ben was a world champion show jumping horse.-Birth and Acquisition by Ian Millar:First named "Winston", Big Ben was born at the van Hooydonk Farm in Kalmthout . Although his dam was only 15 hh, Big Ben grew to be a very large horse of 17.3 hands high...
  
  

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 

• Syl Apps
  Syl Apps
  Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps, CM of Paris, Ontario, was a Canadian pole vaulter and professional hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948 and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario.-Athletic career:Apps was a strong athlete, 6 feet tall, weighing 185 pounds,...
  
  
• Jean Beliveau
  Jean Béliveau
  Jean Arthur "Le Gros Bill" Béliveau, is a former professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens. As a player, he won the Stanley Cup 10 times, and as an executive he was part of another seven championship teams, the most Stanley...
  
  
• Todd Bertuzzi
  Todd Bertuzzi
  Todd Bertuzzi is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Mike Bossy
  Mike Bossy
  Michael Dean Bossy is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the New York Islanders for his entire career and was part of their four-year reign as Stanley Cup champions in the early 1980s...
  
  
• Jennifer Botterill
  Jennifer Botterill
  Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...
  
  
• Ray Bourque
  Ray Bourque
  Raymond Jean "Ray" Bourque is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player. He currently holds records for most goals, assists and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League . Bourque has become near-synonymous with the Boston Bruins franchise, for which he played 21 seasons and...
  
   (born 1960), 5 time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy
  James Norris Memorial Trophy
  The James Norris Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League's top "defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability in the position". The James Norris Memorial Trophy has been awarded 55 times to 23 different players since its beginnings in...
  
  
• Martin Brodeur
  Martin Brodeur
  Martin Pierre Brodeur is a French-Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 19-year tenure with the Devils, he has won three Stanley Cup championships and has been in the playoffs every year but two...
  
  , more NHL wins than any other goaltender
• Hy Buller
  Hy Buller
  Hyman "Hymie" Buller was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Nicknamed the “Blueline Blaster” because of his penchant for hitting opposing players above the skate toe and below the pads, Buller was one of two Jewish professional hockey players in the 1940s and 1950s.He was on the Eastern Amateur...
  
  , NHL All-Star defenceman
• Michael Cammalleri, Canada, left wing (Montreal Canadiens
  Montreal Canadiens
  The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
  
  )
• Cassie Campbell
  Cassie Campbell
  Cassie Campbell-Pascall is a former Canadian female ice hockey player. She was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal...
  
  
• Don Cherry
• Sidney Crosby
  Sidney Crosby
  Sidney Patrick Crosby ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...
  
  
• Kelly Hrudey
  Kelly Hrudey
  Kelly Hrudey is a former NHL ice hockey goaltender and current hockey broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. During his NHL career, Hrudey played for the New York Islanders , Los Angeles Kings , and San Jose Sharks .-Playing career:Hrudey played junior hockey for three years with...
  
  
• Marcel Dionne
  Marcel Dionne
  Marcel Elphege "Little Beaver" Dionne is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers...
  
  
• Steve Dubinsky
  Steve Dubinsky
  Steven Dubinsky is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators and St. Louis Blues. He played centre and shot left-handed.-Biography:...
  
  , NHL center
• Bill Durnan
  Bill Durnan
  William Ronald Durnan was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Phil Esposito
  Phil Esposito
  Philip Anthony Esposito, OC is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and is considered to be one of the best to have...
  
  
• Danny Gallivan
  Danny Gallivan
  Danny Gallivan was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster.-Early life and career:Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Gallivan began his broadcast career at a local radio station in Antigonish, Nova Scotia while attending St. Francis Xavier University...
  
  , play-by-play announcer
• Bernie Geoffrion
  Bernie Geoffrion
  Joseph André Bernard Geoffrion , nicknamed Boom Boom, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York...
  
  , "Boom-Boom", developed the booming slap shot, second player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season
• Danielle Goyette
  Danielle Goyette
  Danielle Goyette is a retired women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team.-Hockey Canada:...
  
  
• Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Douglas Gretzky, CC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. Nicknamed "The Great One", he is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the National Hockey League , and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters,...
  
   (born 1961), "The Great One", holds most NHL scoring records
• George Hainsworth
  George Hainsworth
  George Hainsworth was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, and the Saskatoon Crescents in the Western Canada Hockey League....
  
  
• Glenn Hall
  Glenn Hall
  Glenn Henry "Mr. Goalie" Hall is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall seldom missed a game and was a consistent performer, winning the Vezina Trophy three times, and the...
  
  
• Doug Harvey, 7-time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy
  James Norris Memorial Trophy
  The James Norris Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League's top "defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability in the position". The James Norris Memorial Trophy has been awarded 55 times to 23 different players since its beginnings in...
  
  
• Dany Heatley
  Dany Heatley
  Daniel James Heatley is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger, and alternate captain for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League . Originally drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers second overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the top NHL rookie in 2002...
  
  
• Jayna Hefford
  Jayna Hefford
  Jayna Hefford is a women's ice hockey player. Hefford played forward for the Canadian women's team at the Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010...
  
  
• Paul Henderson
  Paul Henderson
  Paul Henderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames...
  
   – scored winning goal in 1972 Canada/USSR match
• Foster Hewitt
  Foster Hewitt
  Foster William Hewitt, OC was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1902–1985), play-by-play announcer
• Corey Hirsch
  Corey Hirsch
  Corey Hirsch is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He spent the majority of his National Hockey League career with the Vancouver Canucks. He is currently the goaltending coach for the St...
  
  , NHL goaltender
• Tim Horton
  Tim Horton
  Myles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was also a businessman and a co-founder of Tim Hortons. He died in an...
  
  
• Bronco Horvath
  Bronco Horvath
  Joseph Rudolph "Bronco" Horvath is a retired former professional ice hockey player who played 434 games in the NHL between 1955 and 1968....
  
  
• Gordie Howe
  Gordie Howe
  Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OC is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League , and the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association . Howe is often referred to as Mr...
  
  , held most NHL scoring records before Gretzky
• Bobby Hull
  Bobby Hull
  Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull, OC is a former Canadian ice hockey player. He is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game. Hull was famous for his blonde hair, blinding skating speed, and having the hardest shot, earning...
  
  , The "Golden Jet" first player in the NHL to ever score more than 50 goals in a season.
• Brett Hull
  Brett Hull
  Brett Andrew Hull is a former Canadian-American NHL player and the former Executive Vice President of the Dallas Stars. He is the son of Bobby Hull and nephew of Dennis Hull, both former NHL players. Hull is also known as "The Golden Brett," which is a play off of his father's nickname, "The...
  
  , star for several teams, son of Bobby Hull
• Jarome Iginla
  Jarome Iginla
  Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . A six-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals, points, and games played, and is second in assists to Al MacInnis...
  
  
• Dave Keon
  Dave Keon
  David Michael Keon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played professionally from 1960–61 to 1981–82, including 15 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986....
  
  
• Red Kelly
  Red Kelly
  Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, CM is a retired Canadian ice hockey player in the NHL. He played on more Stanley Cup winning teams than any player who never played for the Montreal Canadiens, and is the only player to be part of two of the nine dynasties recognized by the NHL in its history...
  
  
• Ted Kennedy
• Max Labovitch
  Max Labovitch
  Maxwell Labovitch was a Canadian ice hockey player. His physical measurements are 5 '11", 165 pounds. He is Jewish.-Career:...
  
  
• Reggie Leach
  Reggie Leach
  Reginald Joseph Leach is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings. He is best known for his time in Philadelphia, winning a Stanley Cup with...
  
  
• Guy Lafleur
  Guy Lafleur
  Guy Damien "The Flower" / "Le Démon Blond" Lafleur, OC, CQ is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player who is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey...
  
  
• Mario Lemieux
  Mario Lemieux
  Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is acknowledged to be one of the best players of all time. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006...
  
  , player/owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  
• Eric Lindros
  Eric Lindros
  Eric Bryan Lindros is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Lindros played junior hockey in the OHL for the Oshawa Generals prior to being selected first overall in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques...
  
  
• Roberto Luongo
  Roberto Luongo
  Roberto Luongo is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is of Italian and Irish ancestry. He employs the butterfly style of goaltending...
  
  
• Ron MacLean
  Ron MacLean
  Ronald Harold "Ron" MacLean is a Canadian sportscaster for the CBC who is best known as the host of Hockey Night in Canada.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Frank Mahovlich
  Frank Mahovlich
  Francis William "The Big M" Mahovlich, CM is a Canadian Senator, and a retired NHL ice hockey player, nicknamed the "Big M." He played on six Stanley Cup-winning teams and is an inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Mark Messier
  Mark Messier
  Mark Douglas Messier is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre of the National Hockey League and current special assistant to the president and general manager of the New York Rangers. He spent a quarter of a century in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver...
  
  , starred alongside Gretzky during Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
   dynasty and Captain of New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
  
   when they won the Cup in 1994
• Stan Mikita
  Stan Mikita
  Stanislav "Stan" Mikita , is a Slovak-born Canadian retired professional ice hockey player, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 1961, he won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he played his entire career.-Early life:Mikita was born in Sokolče, Slovak Republic...
  
  
• Howie Morenz
  Howie Morenz
  Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre for three National Hockey League teams: the Montreal Canadiens , the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers...
  
  , voted top athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century
• Bill Mosienko
  Bill Mosienko
  William Mosienko was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks. He is best noted for recording the fastest hat trick in NHL history...
  
  
• Rick Nash
  Rick Nash
  Rick Nash is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and captain of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League ....
  
  
• Rob Niedermayer
  Rob Niedermayer
  Robert W. Niedermayer, Jr. is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for HC Lugano of the National League A in Switzerland. He also played for the Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres...
  
  
• Scott Niedermayer
  Scott Niedermayer
  Scott Niedermayer is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for two teams: the New Jersey Devils and the Anaheim Ducks. Niedermayer was known for his skating stride, and ability for leading or joining the offensive rush...
  
  
• Bobby Nystrom, NHL right wing
• Bobby Orr
  Bobby Orr
  Robert Gordon "Bobby" Orr, OC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Orr played in the National Hockey League for his entire career, the first ten seasons with the Boston Bruins, joining the Chicago Black Hawks for two more. Orr is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest...
  
   (born 1948), considered by many to be the best ever, revolutionized the role of a defenseman becoming the first to win the scoring title (twice).
• Caroline Ouellette
  Caroline Ouellette
  Caroline Ouellette is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's ice hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars...
  
  
• Bernie Parent
  Bernie Parent
  Bernard Marcel Parent , better known as Bernie Parent, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association with the...
  
  
• Cherie Piper
  Cherie Piper
  Cherie Piper is a Canadian ice hockey player residing in Markham, Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and plays for the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League...
  
  
• Jacques Plante
  Jacques Plante
  Joseph Jacques Omer Plante was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During a career lasting from 1947–1975, he was considered to be one of the most important innovators in hockey...
  
   (1929–1986), pioneered active defensive play and use of face masks by goalies
• Denis Potvin
  Denis Potvin
  Denis Charles Potvin is a former defenseman and team captain for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League and cornerstone for the Islanders' four Stanley Cup championship teams in the early 1980s. His brother, Jean Potvin, was also an NHL defenseman and the brothers were teammates for...
  
  
• Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.In 1992 Rhéaume signed a contract with the Tampa Bay...
  
   (born 1972), first woman to play in a men's professional game
• Maurice Richard
  Maurice Richard
  Joseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...
  
   (1921–2000), "The Rocket," first player to score 50 goals in a season
• Brad Richards
  Brad Richards
  Bradley Glenn Richards is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League .-Early career:Born and raised in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island...
  
  , Stanley Cup and Lady Byng trophy winner
• Larry Robinson
  Larry Robinson
  Larry Clark Robinson is a former ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. Robinson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995 and is currently the defensive coach for the New Jersey Devils...
  
  , Hall of Fame defenseman
• Patrick Roy
  Patrick Roy
  Patrick Edward Armand Roy is a former Canadian ice hockey goaltender. Nicknamed "Saint Patrick," Roy split his professional career between the Montreal Canadiens, whom he played with for 10 years, and the Colorado Avalanche, whom he played with for 8 years, both of the National Hockey League...
  
  , all-time NHL leader in goalie wins and games played
• Kim St-Pierre
  Kim St-Pierre
  Kim St-Pierre is a women's ice hockey player.-McGill:In 1998-99, she was the top rookie for the McGill Martlets women's ice hockey team...
  
  , goaltender for Canada's Womens National Hockey team from 1999 to 2011
• Joe Sakic
  Joe Sakic
  Joseph Steven "Joe" Sakic is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and current hockey executive. He played his entire National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 20-year tenure, Sakic won the Stanley Cup twice, captured numerous NHL...
  
  
• Derek Sanderson
  Derek Sanderson
  Derek Michael Sanderson, nicknamed "Turk", , is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is now a bank executive and restaurateur....
  
  
• Serge Savard
  Serge Savard
  Serge Aubrey "The Senator" Savard, OC, CQ is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman, most famously with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . He is also a local businessman in Montreal, and is nicknamed the Senator.-Playing career:Savard played minor league hockey with the...
  
  
• Terry Sawchuk
  Terry Sawchuk
  Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...
  
  
• Luke Schenn
  Luke Schenn
  Luke Schenn is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League . Schenn played junior hockey with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League . In his final WHL season, Schenn was named to the league's Second All-Star Team...
  
  
• Eddie Shore
  Eddie Shore
  Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, iconic for his toughness and defensive skill.Shore won the Hart Trophy as the...
  
  
• Sami Jo Small
  Sami Jo Small
  Sami Jo Small is a women's ice hockey player.-Hockey Canada:Small is a three time Olympian, acting as a third goaltender on the Canadian women's hockey team at Turin and Nagano.-CWHL:...
  
  
• Ronnie Stern
  Ronnie Stern
  Ronnie Stern is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, and San Jose Sharks.-Playing career:...
  
  , NHL right wing
• Vicky Sunohara
  Vicky Sunohara
  Vicky Sunohara is a three-time Olympian and is known as one of Canada's all-time most popular female ice hockey players. She was once considered to be the best female ice hockey player in the world and was described as the "Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey"...
  
  
• Frederick Cyclone Taylor
  Cyclone Taylor
  Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor, OBE, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Taylor was one of the earliest professional players. He played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1905 to 1923...
  
  
• Joe Thornton
  Joe Thornton
  Joseph Eric Thornton is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League . He was selected first overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play seven seasons with the club, five as its Captain. During the...
  
  , NHL centre (San Jose Sharks
  San Jose Sharks
  The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  )
• Mike Veisor
  Mike Veisor
  Michael David "Worm" Veisor, Sr. is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender.Veisor started his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1973. He also played for the Hartford Whalers and Winnipeg Jets. He retired after the 1984 season.He was the second Jewish goalie in NHL...
  
  , NHL goaltender
• Stephen Weiss
  Stephen Weiss
  Stephen Weiss is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Weiss plays the centre position and is an alternate captain for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League .-Plymouth Whalers:...
  
  , center (Florida Panthers
  Florida Panthers
  The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and are the...
  
  )
• Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser is a women's ice hockey player from Canada. She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team...
  
  , member of Canada's Womens National Hockey team from 1995, played in Finland's men's professional league (Mestis
  Mestis
  Mestis, , is the second-highest ice hockey league in Finland.The league was established in 2000 to replace the first division. Since 2000, Mestis has been the highest hockey league in Finland that can be reached with playing merits only; the SM-liiga was closed in 2000...
  
  )
• Steve Yzerman
  Steve Yzerman
  Stephen Gregory "Steve" Yzerman is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League...
  
  , GM of Tampa Bay Lightning
  Tampa Bay Lightning
  The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2003–04. They are often referred to as the...
  
  , long-time captain of Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
  
  

Lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

 

• Gaylord Powless
  Gaylord Powless
  Gaylord Powless was a Mohawk lacrosse player from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario. His father Ross was also a highly regarded player....
  
  
• John Grant, Jr.
  John Grant, Jr. (lacrosse player)
  John Christopher Grant, Jr. is a professional lacrosse player for the Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse League and the Long Island Lizards in Major League Lacrosse.-NLL career:...
  
  
• Gary Gait
  Gary Gait
  Gary Charles Gait is widely regarded as the best lacrosse player of all time, just above his twin brother Paul. He has starred at the NCAA level at Syracuse University, at the professional level in the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse, and at the international level for the...
  
  
• Paul Gait
  Paul Gait
  Paul Gait is widely regarded as one of the best lacrosse players of all time and is the current Vice President of the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League...
  
  
• John Tavares
• Geoff Snider
  Geoff Snider
  Geoff Snider is a Canadian lacrosse player from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is known as a dominant faceoff man and a very physical player...
  
  

Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 

• Patrick Côté
  Patrick Côté (fighter)
  Patrick Côté is a French-Canadian mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a middleweight, most recently in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and was the TKO Major League MMA middleweight champion...
  
  
• Gary Goodridge
  Gary Goodridge
  Gary Goodridge , nicknamed "Big Daddy", is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian-Canadian former super heavyweight kickboxer and heavyweight mixed martial artist fighting out of Barrie, Ontario. Goodridge is known for his hard-hitting fighting style and showmanship...
  
  
• Jonathan Goulet
  Jonathan Goulet
  Jonathan Goulet is a retired French Canadian mixed martial artist. He has most recently fought as a welterweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he made his successful debut at Ultimate Fight Night 2, defeating Jay Hieron by technical knockout.-Mixed martial arts career:Goulet is...
  
  
• Mark Hominick
  Mark Hominick
  Mark Hominick is a Canadian mixed martial artist, former TKO Featherweight Champion, and current UFC fighter. Hominick is currently ranked as the #4 featherweight fighter in the world by MMAWeekly.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  
• Denis Kang
  Denis Kang
  Denis Kang is a Canadian mixed martial artist of Korean French descent. He was the PRIDE FC welterweight grand prix finalist in which he lost to Kazuo Misaki...
  
  
• David Loiseau
  David Loiseau
  David Loiseau is a Canadian mixed martial artist from Montreal, Quebec. He has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, EliteXC, and TKO Major League MMA and is the former TKO Middleweight Champion. He was the first French Canadian to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  
• Carlos Newton
  Carlos Newton
  Carlos Newton is a Canadian mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion. He is considered one of the true pioneers in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Known as the "The Ronin", he competed worldwide in the biggest MMA organizations including UFC, Pride FC, IFL, K-1, Shooto and most...
  
  , Former UFC Welterweight Champion
• Sam Stout
  Sam Stout
  Samuel James "Hands of Stone" Stout is a Canadian mixed martial artist from London, Ontario. Currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he is primarily known as a striker with an iron chin.- Mixed martial arts career :...
  
  
• Georges St. Pierre
  Georges St. Pierre
  Georges St-Pierre , often referred to as GSP, is a Canadian mixed martial artist and the current Welterweight Champion of the UFC. St-Pierre is ranked as the No. 1 Welterweight in the world according to Sherdog, MMAWeekly and numerous other publications. St-Pierre is ranked the No. 2 pound for...
  
  , UFC Welterweight Champion

Multiple sports

• Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics...
  
  , (born 1972), speed skating
  Speed skating
  Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
  
   and cycling
  Cycling
  Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
  
   medalist in both summer and winter olympics
• Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser is a women's ice hockey player from Canada. She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team...
  
   better known as being one of the best female ice hockey
  Ice hockey
  Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
  
   players in the world, and also participated for Canada in the Olympics in softball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
  .
• Lionel Conacher
  Lionel Conacher
  Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP , nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto...
  
  , played multiple sports and turned professional in ice hockey, Canadian football
  Canadian football
  Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
  
   and lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
  .

Professional rodeo

Rodeo

Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...

 

• Earl W. Bascom
  Earl W. Bascom
  Earl W. Bascom was an American painter, printmaker, rodeo performer and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.- Childhood :...
  
  , designer of hornless bronc saddle (1922) and bareback rigging (1924)

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 

• Tiger Jeet Singh
  Tiger Jeet Singh
  Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...
  
   (born 1944)
• Tiger Ali Singh (born 1971)
• Chris Benoit
  Chris Benoit
  Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide...
  
   (1967–2007)
• Tracy Brooks
  Tracy Brookshaw
  Tracy Brookshaw is a Canadian professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and professional wrestling referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she has spent most of her career.-Early life:Brookshaw grew up on a...
  
   (born 1975)
• Christian Cage (Jason Reso)
  Jason Reso
  William Jason Reso is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Christian and Christian Cage...
  
   (born 1973)
• Rene Dupree (Rene Goguen)
  René Goguen
  René Goguen better known by his ring name René Duprée, is a French Canadian professional wrestler. Goguen is best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion with Sylvain Grenier as the tag team La Résistance and a one time WWE Tag Team...
  
   (born 1983)
• Edge (Adam Copeland)
  Adam Copeland
  Adam Joseph Copeland is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Edge. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract....
  
   (born 1973)
• Ronnie Garvin
• Sylvain Grenier
  Sylvain Grenier
  Sylvain Grenier is a Canadian professional wrestler, who is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment in the La Résistance tag team. He is currently a French language announcer for TNA Impact! on RDS....
  
  
• Bret 'The Hitman' Hart
  Bret Hart
  Bret Hart is a Canadian on-screen personality, writer, actor and Semi-retired professional wrestler. Like others in the Hart wrestling family, Hart has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College...
  
   (born 1957)
• Owen Hart
  Owen Hart
  Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional and amateur wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling , and most notably, the World Wrestling Federation , where he wrestled under both his own name, and ring name The...
  
   (1965–1999)
• Stu Hart
  Stu Hart
  Stewart Edward "Stu" Hart, CM was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Hart founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, and was the father of famous wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart...
  
   (1915–2003), father of Bret and Owen
• Teddy Hart
  Teddy Hart
  Teddy Annis , is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Teddy Hart. He is currently working on the American independent circuit for promotions such as Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Dragon Gate USA...
  
  
• Jim Neidhart
  Jim Neidhart
  James Henry "Jim" Neidhart is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Jim is the father of WWE Diva Natalya...
  
  
• Chris Jericho (Chris Irvine)
  Chris Jericho
  Christopher Keith Irvine , better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an inactive Canadian-American professional wrestler, musician, songwriter, radio personality, television host, actor, author, and dancer...
  
   (born 1970)
• Gail Kim
  Gail Kim
  Gail Kim is a Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she is the current TNA Women's Knockout Champion and one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions with Madison Rayne...
  
   (born 1976)
• Fred Oberlander
  Fred Oberlander
  Fred Oberlander was an Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler.-Wrestling career:Between 1930 and 1950 he won two Austrian Junior wrestling titles, five French Heavyweight Championships, seven British Heavyweight Championships , and the 1950 Canadian Heavyweight crown.He also won the 1935 World...
  
   – world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
• Maryse Ouellet
  Maryse Ouellet
  Maryse Ouellet is a Professional Glamour Model and a former professional wrestler, better known simply as Maryse. She most recently worked for WWE...
  
  
• Santino Marella (Anthony Carelli)
• Rick Martel
  Rick Martel
  Richard Vigneault is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1980 and 1995 under the ring name Rick Martel...
  
  
• Roddy Piper (Roderick Toombs)
  Roddy Piper
  Roderick George Toombs , better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, is a Canadian semi-retired professional wrestler and film actor who is currently signed to WWE. In professional wrestling, he is best known for his work with WWE...
  
   (born 1954)
• Robert Roode (born 1978)
• Jacques Rougeau
  Jacques Rougeau
  Jacques Rougeau Jr. is a retired French-Canadian professional wrestler from Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s with the World Wrestling Federation under his own name, and as The Mountie. Rougeau has held fifteen championships during his career...
  
  
• Raymond Rougeau
  Raymond Rougeau
  Raymond "Ray" Rougeau is a former Canadian professional wrestler and French language television presenter and commentator.-Career:...
  
  
• Lance Storm (Lance Evers)
  Lance Storm
  Lance Timothy Evers known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling...
  
   (born 1969)
• Trish Stratus (Patricia Stratigias)
  Trish Stratus
  Patricia Anne Stratigias , better known by her ring name Trish Stratus, is a Canadian professional wrestler, actress and television personality currently signed with WWE. She is also a former fitness model....
  
   (born 1975)
• Earthquake
  John Tenta
  John Anthony Tenta was a Canadian professional wrestler known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake and later Golga, and in World Championship Wrestling as Avalanche and The Shark.-Early life:John Tenta was born in Surrey, British Columbia...
  
   (1963–2006)
• Val Venis (Sean Morley)
  Sean Morley
  Sean Allen Morley is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name Val Venis, during his time with World Wrestling Federation, later known as World Wrestling Entertainment...
  
   (born 1971)
• Vampiro
  Vampiro
  Ian Richard Hodgkinson , better known by his ring name Vampiro, is a Canadian professional wrestler currently working as a wrestler and a consultant for Juggalo Championship Wrestling. Hodgkinson is semi-retired and is a member of the citizen crime patrol organization Guardian Angels, acting as...
  
  
• David Hart Smith
  Harry Smith (wrestler)
  Harry Smith is a Canadian professional wrestler of English descent. He is currently working for Inoki Genome Federation and is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he won the Unified Tag Team Championship along with Tyson Kidd before being released from his contract on August 5, 2011...
  
  
• Tyson Kidd
• Natalya Neidhart
  Nattie Neidhart
  Natalie "Nattie" Katherine Neidhart is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Natalya....
  
  
• Whipper Billy Watson
  Whipper Billy Watson
  William John Potts, O.Ont was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name Whipper Billy Watson, and was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion.-Early life:...
  
   (1915–1990)
• Petey Williams
  Petey Williams
  Peter "Petey" Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. Williams Currently Wrestles for Lucha Libre USA...
  
   (born 1981)
• Eric Young
  Eric Young (wrestler)
  Jeremy Fritz is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known under his ring name Eric Young. He currently performs for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he has gained popularity using a variety of comic relief gimmicks....
  
   (born 1980)

Rowing

Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

, kayaking

Kayaking

Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking and canoeing are also known as paddling. Kayaking is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle...

 

• Silken Laumann
  Silken Laumann
  Silken Suzette Laumann, MSC is a Canadian champion rower.Starting in 1976, Laumann won a number of awards, including a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the U.S. Championships, two gold medals in single sculls at the Pan American Games, a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics in the double sculls with...
  
  
• Marnie McBean
  Marnie McBean
  Marnie Elizabeth McBean is a Canadian rower.McBean competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the coxless pairs and eights events, winning gold medals in both. At the 1996 Summer Olympics she competed in the double and quadruple sculls, winning gold in the double and bronze in the quadruple...
  
  
• Adam van Koeverden
  Adam van Koeverden
  Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker. He was born in Oakville, Ontario to a Dutch father and a Hungarian mother...
  
  

Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 

• Dan Baugh
  Dan Baugh
  Dan Baugh is a Canadian rugby union player, who recently retired due to a long string of injuries...
  
  
• Norm Hadley
  Norm Hadley
  Norman Hadley is a former professional rugby union player."Stormin' Norman" was a massive 6 foot 7", 21-stone lock. He played professionally first for London Wasps and then Bedford Blues in the 1990s. In Canada he played for James Bay and UBCOB Ravens . He earned an M.B.A...
  
  
• Gareth Rees
• Kevin Tkachuk
  Kevin Tkachuk
  Kevin Tkachuk is a prop for the Canada national rugby union team and the Glasgow Warriors in Scotland....
  
  

Skeleton

Skeleton (sport)

Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down, during which athletes experience forces up to 5g. It originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland as a spin-off from the popular British sport of Cresta Sledding...

 

• Jeff Pain
  Jeff Pain
  Jeff Pain is an American-born, Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 1995. He is regarded as one of the most successful male competitors in the history of the Canadian skeleton program...
  
  , Olympic Silver Medal, 2006
• Jon Montgomery
  Jon Montgomery
  Jonathan Riley "Jon" Montgomery is a Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 2006. He won the Gold Medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.-Career:...
  
  , Olympics Gold Medal, 2010

Soccer (football)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 

• Adam Braz
  Adam Braz
  Adam Braz is a retired Canadian soccer player known mainly for his years spent playing at the Montreal Impact in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.- College :...
  
  , soccer defender (Montreal Impact
  Montreal Impact
  Montreal Impact was a Canadian professional soccer club based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1992, the team played in the North American Soccer League , the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid until the 2011 season. The owner Joey Saputo now operates the MLS team Montreal ImpactThe...
  
   & national team)
• Jim Brennan
  Jim Brennan
  Jim Brennan is a retired Canadian soccer player. During his playing career he gained experience playing extensively in Europe and North America, most notably with Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Norwich City and Toronto FC.He also played 49 times for the Canadian national team, was...
  
  
• John Catliff
  John Catliff
  John Catliff is a former Canadian professional soccer player. He has the second most goals scored for the Canadian national team with 18 goals between 1984 and 1994.-Club career:...
  
  
• Jonathan de Guzman
  Jonathan de Guzmán
  Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán is a Canadian-born footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and is currently playing for Villarreal CF....
  
  
• Julian de Guzman
  Julian de Guzmán
  Julian de Guzman is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer.Previously, he played for Deportivo de La Coruña, and was the first Canadian to play in the Spanish La Liga...
  
   – 2007 Gold Cup MVP
• Dwayne De Rosario
  Dwayne De Rosario
  Dwayne Anthony De Rosario is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for D.C. United in Major League Soccer. He also plays for the Canadian national team.-Early career:...
  
   – 2007 MLS Cup MVP
• David Edgar
  David Edgar (footballer)
  David Edward Edgar is a Canadian football player who currently plays for Championship side Burnley. He can play as a centre back, right back, left back or defensive midfielder.-Early life:Edgar was born to Eddie Edgar and Christine Edgar...
  
  
• Rob Friend
  Rob Friend
  Rob Friend is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gottfried Fuchs
  Gottfried Fuchs
  Gottfried Fuchs was a German footballer. A German Jew, he fled Germany because of The Holocaust and emigrated to Canada...
  
  , German national team
• Owen Hargreaves
  Owen Hargreaves
  Owen Lee Hargreaves is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English Premier League club Manchester City and the English national football team....
  
   – England international
• Charmaine Hooper
  Charmaine Hooper
  Charmaine Hooper is a former striker for the Canadian women's national soccer team.-Career:A former star at North Carolina State University, she currently plays for the * of the Women's Premier Soccer League. In 2006 she played for the New Jersey Wildcats in the American W-League...
  
  
• Atiba Hutchinson
  Atiba Hutchinson
  Atiba Hutchinson is a professional Canadian soccer player who plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie.-Club career:...
  
  
• Will Johnson
• Bobby Lenarduzzi
• Kevin McKenna
  Kevin McKenna
  Kevin James McKenna is a Canadian professional soccer player who currently plays for 1. FC Köln in the German Bundesliga...
  
   – Team Canada Captain
• Dale Mitchell
• Jimmy Nicholl
  Jimmy Nicholl
  James Michael "Jimmy" Nicholl is a Canadian-born former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Manchester United.He was mainly a right-back but could also play in other defensive roles...
  
   – played for N. Ireland
• Paul Peschisolido
  Paul Peschisolido
  Paolo Pasquale Peschisolido , commonly known as Paul Peschisolido, is a Canadian association football manager and former player...
  
  
• Tomasz Radzinski
  Tomasz Radzinski
  Not to be confused with the Czech footballer Tomáš RosickýTomasz Radzinski is a Canadian association footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently unattached.-Club career:...
  
  
• Randy Samuel
  Randy Samuel
  Randolph FitzGerald "Randy" Samuel is a Canadian former soccer player turned manager, who is currently head coach at Lobbans FC.As a player he picked up a record 82 caps for the Canadian national team.-Early life:...
  
  
• Christine Sinclair
  Christine Sinclair
  Christine Margaret Sinclair is a Canadian soccer forward who plays professional soccer for the Western New York Flash and is the captain of the Canadian national team. Sinclair has spent ten years with the Canadian national team participating in two World Cups in 2007 and 2003 and the 2008 Summer...
  
  
• Paul Stalteri
  Paul Stalteri
  Paul Stalteri is a Canadian association football player who has spent most of his professional career in Germany. He won the league and cup double with Werder Bremen in the 2003-04 season, and is currently a Free Agent...
  
  
• John van't Schip – played for the Netherlands

Speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 

• Susan Auch
  Susan Auch
  Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan...
  
  
• Lela Brooks
• Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher, OC, CQ is a former Speed skating Olympic champion from Canada.A four-time Olympic medalist, Boucher was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding male athlete of 1984. He was named number 10 on the list of Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century...
  
   four-time Olympic medalist – 1980, 1984
• Sylvia Burka
  Sylvia Burka
  Sylvia Burka is a former ice speed skater from Canada of Latvian descent, who represented her native country at three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan....
  
  
• Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle is a Canadian speed skater. She is a member of Canadian Short Track relay team that won gold medal in 1992 Winter Olympics and silver medal in 1994 Winter Olympics. She is also a five-time Overall World Champion...
  
  
• Marc Gagnon
  Marc Gagnon
  Marc Gagnon is a French Canadian short track speed skater. He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals....
  
  , (born 1975), short track speed skater
  Short track speed skating
  Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m...
  
  
• Charles Gorman
  Charles Gorman (speed skater)
  Charles Ingraham Gorman was a Canadian speed skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick....
  
  
• Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics...
  
  , (born 1972)
• Catriona Le May Doan, (born 1970)
• Christine Nesbitt
  Christine Nesbitt
  Christine Nesbitt is a Canadian long track speed skater who currently resides in Calgary, Alberta. Her personal best in the 1000m is the second fastest of all time, right after Cindy Klassen's world record. Nesbitt won the Gold Medal in the 1000 m event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics...
  
  , Olympic Gold medalist, 1000m long track – 2010
• Annie Perreault
  Annie Perreault
  Annie Perreault is a Canadian short track speed skater, who won medals in the 500 m and 3000 m relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She had already won a relay gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics....
  
  , short track speed skater
  Short track speed skating
  Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m...
  
   Olympic Gold Medal – 1992 & 1998
• Frank Stack
  Frank Stack (speed skater)
  Frank Stack was a Canadian speed skater and Olympic medalist. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
  
  
• Jeremy Wotherspoon
  Jeremy Wotherspoon
  Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time....
  
   – World Record Holder at 500m

Squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 

• Jonathon Power
  Jonathon Power
  Jonathon Tyler Power is a retired professional squash player from Canada. In 1999, he became the first North American squash player to reach the World No. 1 ranking...
  
   The only North American squash player to attain the #1 world ranking.
• Graham Ryding
  Graham Ryding
  Graham Ryding is a professional male squash player who represented Canada during his career. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 10 in November 1999 after having joined the Professional Squash Association in 1993.-References:...
  
  

Swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 – diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 

• Alex Baumann
  Alex Baumann
  Alexander "Sasha" Baumann, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian athlete, who won two gold medals and set two world records in swimming at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.Born in Prague , Baumann...
  
  , 1984 medley Olympic champion
• Marilyn Bell
  Marilyn Bell
  Marilyn Bell Di Lascio is a retired long distance swimmer, born October 19, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.-Swimming career:...
  
  , first person to swim Lake Ontario
  Lake Ontario
  Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot language, ontarío means...
  
  
• Sylvie Bernier
  Sylvie Bernier
  Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec) in Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....
  
  , Canada's first gold medal in Olympic diving
• Victor Davis
  Victor Davis
  Victor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, a well known breaststroker from Canada. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.-Biography:...
  
   (1964–1989), Olympic swimming champion
• Mark Tewksbury
  Mark Tewksbury
  Mark Tewksbury, MSM is a Canadian former swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100 metres backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medal
• Alexandre Despatie
  Alexandre Despatie
  Alexandre Despatie is a Canadian diver from Laval, Quebec. He was the World champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007 and is the first, and so far only, diver to have been World champion in the three categories . He is also a 36-time Canadian senior diving champion...
  
  , World Diving Champion

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 

• Carling Bassett
• Sharon Fichman
  Sharon Fichman
  Sharon Fichman is a Canadian professional tennis player. Fichman was ranked No. 5 on the junior circuit in December 2006. Since turning pro, so far her career highs are No. 114 in singles and No. 83 in doubles. Fichman is currently Canada's highest-ranked women's doubles player.-Early life:Fichman...
  
  , Canada
• Helen Kelesi
  Helen Kelesi
  Helen Kelesi is a former tour professional tennis player. She has been coached by her father, Milan Kelesi, throughout her tennis career....
  
  
• Daniel Nestor
  Daniel Nestor
  Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
  
  
• Andrew Sznajder
  Andrew Sznajder
  Andrew Sznajder is a former Canadian professional tour tennis player.A native of Oakville, Ontario, Sznajder achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 46 in September 1989...
  
  
• Aleksandra Wozniak
  Aleksandra Wozniak
  Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian professional tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005. Wozniak achieved a career-best ranking of no. 21 on June 22, 2009, making her the fourth-highest ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and eight ITF tournaments...
  
  , Canada, highest world ranking # 21
• Milos Raonic
  Milos Raonic
  Milos Raonic is a Canadian professional tennis player from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.Born in what is now Podgorica, Montenegro, Raonic moved to Canada with his family at the age of 3. Raonic is Canada's highest ATP ranked male singles player and the country's highest ever ranked player since...
  
  

Track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 

• Donovan Bailey
  Donovan Bailey
  Donovan Bailey is a retired Canadian sprinter, who once held the world record for the 100 metres race following his gold medal performance in the 1996 Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian to legally break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m...
  
  , (born 1967), sprinter, former 100m world record holder
• Bruny Surin
  Bruny Surin
  Bruny Surin is a Canadian athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 2008 he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics 4x100 relay team.-Career:...
  
  , (born 1967), sprinter, tied with Donovan Bailey for Canadian 100m record
• Sam Effah
  Sam Effah
  Sam Effah is a Canadian sprinter. Effah's parents both immigrated from Ghana before moving to Calgary where Sam Effah was born. Effah is the fourth fastest Canadian ever after running a 10.06 in the 100 metre in July 2010...
  
  , (born 1988), sprinter, 100m
• Justyn Warner
  Justyn Warner
  Justyn Warner, is a Canadian track athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He is the current Canadian Junior record holder at that distance in 10.26, coached by Desai Williams & Anthony McCleary....
  
  , (born 1987), sprinter, 100m
• Bryan Barnett
  Bryan Barnett
  Bryan Barnett is a Canadian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.He was born in Edmonton. He won the silver medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships, and also competed at the 2007 World Championships and 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final...
  
  , (born 1987), sprinter, 100m and 200m
• Jared Connaughton
  Jared Connaughton
  -Biography:He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The son of Susan and Neal Connaughton and resident of New Haven, Prince Edward Island...
  
  , (born 1985), sprinter, 100m and 200m
• Pierre Browne
  Pierre Browne
  Pierre Browne is a Canadian sprinter of Barbadian descent. He represented Canada for the 100 and the 200 meters dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1980), sprinter, 100m in the Olympics
• Hank Palmer
  Hank Palmer
  Hank Palmer is a Canadian sprinter. He was born in Montreal. Palmer's best place to date was a fourth place at the 2004 World Junior Championships. He is uncommonly known by his self-appointed nicknames Black Phoenix, and Legend....
  
  , (born 1985), sprinter, 2008 Olympics
• Étienne Desmarteau
  Etienne Desmarteau
  Competitor for CanadaÉtienne Desmarteau was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics...
  
  , (1873-1905), weight thrower, Olympic champion
• Nicole Forrester
  Nicole Forrester
  Nicole Forrester is a Canadian high jumper. She was discovered working at McDonald's by Dave Hunt, who suggested she learn how to high jump. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Thessaloniki...
  
  , (born 1976), high jumper, gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Alice Falaiye
  Alice Falaiye
  Alice Falaiye is an Canadian long jumper.She has won gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She also competed at the 2001 World Championships without reaching the final....
  
  , (born 1978), long jumper, gold medalist at the 2009 Pan American Games and 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Sultana Frizell
  Sultana Frizell
  Sultana Frizell is a Canadian track and field athlete competing in the hammer throw. Frizell currently trains under the guidance of Anatoliy Bondarchuk in Kamloops, British Columbia. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Career:Frizell started her athletic career in figure skating...
  
  , (born 1984), hammer thrower, gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Jennifer Joyce
  Jennifer Joyce
  Jennifer Joyce is a Canadian hammer thrower.While growing up outside of Vancouver, Joyce excelled in multiple sports as a child. In addition to athletics, she participated in soccer and volleyball, earning a spot on the British Columbia soccer provincial team in 1994...
  
  , (born 1980), hammer thrower, silver medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Gary Reed
  Gary Reed (athlete)
  Gary Reed is a Canadian retired middle distance runner. He currently holds the Canadian record in the 800 metre run with a time of 1:43.68. On September 2, 2007, he won the silver medal in the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, with a time of 1.47.10...
  
  , (born 1981), 800m, silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships
• Nathan Brannen
  Nathan Brannen
  Nathan Brannen is a Canadian middle distance runner.Brannen was born in Cambridge, Ontario. He is affiliated with the Tri City Track Club.He holds a personal best in the 800m of 1:46:00.-References:*...
  
  , (born 1982), 800m, 2009 World Championships
• Perdita Felicien
  Perdita Felicien
  Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdler.-Early life:Felicien carries her mother's maiden name, whose origins are in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia...
  
  , (born 1980), 2003 world champion in 100m hurdles
• Priscilla Lopes-Schliep
  Priscilla Lopes-Schliep
  Priscilla Lopes-Schliep is a Canadian hurdler in track and field athletic competition. She was born in Scarborough, Ontario and currently lives in Whitby. Lopes-Schliep is the first cousin of soccer player Dwayne De Rosario. She attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Lopes-Schliep won a...
  
  , (born 1982), 100m hurdles, silver medalist at the 2009 World Championships
• Angela Whyte
  Angela Whyte
  Angela Whyte is a Canadian hurdler in track and field athletic competition.-Achievements:-External links:* at Canadian Olympic Committee*...
  
  , (born 1980), 100m hurdles, silver medalist at the 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games
• Phylicia George
  Phylicia George
  Phylicia George is a Canadian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles.-Achievements:...
  
  , (born 1987), 100m hurdles
• Nikkita Holder
  Nikkita Holder
  Nikkita Holder is a Canadian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles.-Achievements:-References:...
  
  , (born 1987), 100m hurdles
• Harry Jerome
  Harry Jerome
  Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the grandson of John Howard, a railway porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics....
  
  , (1940-1982) sprinter
• Ben Johnson
  Ben Johnson (athlete)
  Benjamin Sinclair "Ben" Johnson, CM , is a former sprinter from Canada, who enjoyed a high-profile career during most of the 1980s, winning two Olympic bronze medals and an Olympic gold, which was subsequently rescinded...
  
  , (born 1961), sprinter, disqualified from Olympic gold medal for doping
• Jamie Adjetey-Nelson
  Jamie Adjetey-Nelson
  Jamie Adjetey-Nelson from Scarborough, Ontario is a Canadian athlete who competes in the decathlon. He now resides in Windsor, Ontario and was a part of their track and field team, the Windsor Legions Track and Field club, and the University of Windsor track and field team...
  
  , (born 1984), decathlete and gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Jessica Zelinka
  Jessica Zelinka
  Jessica Zelinka is a Canadian pentathlete and heptathlete. Her personal best score is 6490 points, which was achieved at 2008 Summer Olympics and is the Canadian record for the event...
  
  , (born 1981), heptathlete and pentathlete, gold medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games
• Brianne Theisen
  Brianne Theisen
  Brianne Theisen is a Canadian track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon. She was the Canadian heptathlon champion in 2009 and represented her country at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics....
  
  , (born 1988), heptathlete, 2009 World Championships
• Scott Russell, (born 1979), javelin thrower
• Robert Kerr, (1882-1963), Olympic gold medalist in the 1908 Olympics
• George Orton
  George Orton
  George Washington Orton was a Canadian middle-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal.-Biography:...
  
  , (1873-1958), first Canadian to become Olympic champion
• Fanny Rosenfeld, (1904-1969), runner & long jumper, world record (100-yard dash); Olympic champion (4x100-m relay) and silver (100-m)
• Dylan Armstrong
  Dylan Armstrong
  Dylan Armstrong is a Canadian shot putter born and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.-Career:Armstrong achieved a personal best, and Canadian record at that time, of 21.04 meters at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished fourth, missing out on a medal by a single...
  
  , (born 1981), shot putter, Pan American Games record, second at world championships
• Percy Williams
  Percy Williams
  Percy Alfred Williams, OC was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 m and 200 m races at the 1928 Summer Olympics.- Biography :Williams was born in Vancouver and he died in Vancouver....
  
  , (1908–1982), Olympic champion sprinter
• Joël Bourgeois
  Joël Bourgeois
  Joël Denis Bourgeois is a middle- and long-distance runner competing for Canada. He won the gold medal for Canada in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada...
  
  , (born 1971), 3000 meter Steeplechase, 1996 and 2000 Olympics
• Reid Coolsaet
  Reid Coolsaet
  Reid Coolsaet is a Canadian long-distance runner who competes in the marathon.He made his first international appearances for Canada at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, running at the annual in 2002 and then 2004–2006. He won the 5000 meters at the NACAC U23 Championships in 2002...
  
  , born (1979), marathon runner, London 2012 Olympics
• Eric Gillis
  Eric Gillis
  Eric Gillis is a Canadian athlete. He was born and raised in the community of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He currently resides in Guelph, Ontario.-Sporting career:...
  
  , born (1980), marathon runner, 2008 Beijing & London 2012 Olympics
• Dylan Wykes
  Dylan Wykes
  Dylan Wykes is a Canadian long-distance runner. He represented Canada in the marathon at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, where he placed 33rd. In December 2010, Wykes won the California International Marathon in a time of 2:12:39...
  
  , (born 1983), marathon runner, 2009 World Championships

Triathlon

Triathlon

A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

 

• Simon Whitfield
  Simon Whitfield
  Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is an Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.-Biography:Whitfield was born in Kingston, Ontario. As a young boy he played soccer but at age 11 began triathlon, honing his early competitive skills in the Canadian Kids of Steel program. By age 15 he was pursuing...
  
  , (born 1975), gold at the 2000 Olympics and silver at the 2008 Olympics
• Paula Findlay
  Paula Findlay
  Paula Findlay is a Canadian triathlete.Findlay finished third at the 2009 Under-23 World Championships....
  
  , (born 1989), London 2012 Olympics

Weightlifting 

• Louis Cyr
  Louis Cyr
  Louis Cyr was a famous Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds with one finger and carrying 4,337 pounds on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness...
  
   – weightlifter
• The Great Antonio – strongman and wrestler

Wrestling

• Ari Taub
  Ari Taub
  Ari Taub is a Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler.Taub is Jewish, and was born in Montreal, Quebec. He resides in Calgary, Alberta, and is an attorney....
  
   - Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
• David Zilberman
  David Zilberman
  -Early life:Zilberman is Jewish, and was born in Montreal, Quebec. He started wrestling when he was 14 years old. He attended McGill University and Concordia University.-Wrestling career:He wrestles in the Men's Freestyle, at 96 kg...
  
  - Olympic heavyweight wrestler

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