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Barbara Ann
Scott: Canada's Greatest Golden Girl
There have been many prizes won on the world championship
circuit in women's figure skating, but no Canadian woman
has ever reached its pinnacle like Barbara Ann Scott. Surprisingly
for a country where skating almost comes as naturally, Scott
is the only Canadian woman who has captured the gold medal
in the women's singles event in Olympic history.
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Nancy Greene named
top female athlete of the century
On the slopes she humbled rivals and won medals with a skiing
style that combined tenacity with an effervescent enthusiasm
for racing. Nancy Greene Raine remains one of the most beloved
and recognizable ambassadors in alpine skiing and is the
most decorated racer in Canadian ski racing history.
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Lucile Wheeler: Canada's
First Olympic Downhill Medallist
Among beign the first Olympic downhill medallist, Wheeler
received in 1958 the Lou Marsh Trophy as outstanding athlete
of the year, the Velma Springstead Memorial Trophy as outstanding
female athlete, the Canadian Press Award as woman athlete
of the year, and in 1976, the Order of Canada.
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Karen Magnussen
Athlete Vancouver's Karen Magnussen was an inspiration to
Canadian skating in the 1970s. Junior champion in 1965 and
senior national champion five times between 1968 and 1973,
Magnussen captured the hearts of the skating world with
a brilliant performance at the 1972 Olympic Winter Games
in Sapporo, Japan where she won a silver medal, Canada's
only medal of the '72 Games.
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Kerrin
Lee-Gartner, Skiing
About a year and a half ago, skier Kerrin Lee-Gartner awoke
from a strange dream. "It was in French and they were
saying `medaille d'or' and saying my name," Lee-Gartner
recalled Saturday after becoming the first Canadian to win
a Winter Olympics downhill gold medal.
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Elizabeth Manley,
Figure Skating
Elizabeth Manley's silver medal in ladies'
figure skating will go down as Canada's most cherished prize
of the 15th Winter Olympics.Her inspired free skate
in the long program Saturday night topped the performances
of both East German Katarina Witt and American Debbi Thomas.
The 21-year-old dynamo from Ottawa brought 20,000 cheering,
crying spectators in the Saddledome to their feet in a collective
roar of patriotism moments before her program even finished.
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