Donovan Bailey (born December 16, 1967) is a Canadian former athlete. Born in Manchester, Jamaica, Bailey emigrated from Jamaica to Canada at age 13, and played basketball before his graduation at Queen Elizabeth Park High School in Oakville, Ontario. He began competing as a 100 m sprinter part-time in 1991, but he did not take up the sport seriously until 1994. At that time, he was also a successful stockbroker. The following year saw his international breakthrough.

Bruny Surin is a former Canadian athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Surin was born in Cap-Haïtien, Haïti, and moved to Canada with his family in 1975. Surin made his debut at the major international championships at the 1987 Pan-American Games, where he was fifteenth in a long jump. At the 1988 Summer Olympics, Surin was again fifteenth in long jump.

Jessica Deglau (born May 27, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team in swimming in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. In addition to swimming on the national team, she swam for and graduated from the University of British Columbia. The Vancouver resident first broke the Canadian record in the 200 meter butterfly at the 1996 Olympics clocking 2:11.68 for sixth spot and bettered it two years later at the world championships, …

Glenroy John Gilbert (born August 31, 1968 in Port of Spain) is a former Canadian athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Glenroy Gilbert formed along with Robert Esmie, Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey the best 4x100 m relay team in the mid-1990s. Gilbert made his debut at the major international championships at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he was 21 in the Long Jump.

Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is an Olympic triathlon champion from Canada. He has dual Canadian and Australian citizenship. As a young boy he played soccer but at age 11 began triathlon and by age 15 was pursuing it on a serious competitive basis. Whitfield’s gold medal win in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia is one of the most memorable performances by an individual athlete in Canadian sporting history.

Caroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian kayaker, who competed in five Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. She began kayaking at age eleven. She has won two silver medals at the Olympics in the women's K1 500 m event (in 1996 and 2000) and a bronze in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. On top of that, she has won ten world championship golds, seven silvers and four bronze medals: *1993 in Copenhagen, …

Baraladei Daniel Igali (born February 3, 1974 in Eniwari, Bayelsa State, Nigeria) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler.

Kyle Shewfelt (born May 6, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian gymnast. His gold medal in the men's floor exercise competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics was the first medal ever by a Canadian in an artistic gymnastics event and was the first Canadian gold of the 2004 Olympics. Shewfelt was considered a medal threat in advance of the Athens games. In the end, Shewfelt finished first on Floor and fourth on Vault, amid much controversy, …

Karen Cockburn (b. October 2, 1980) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She was born in Toronto and grew up in North York, Ontario. She began trampolining at age 11, and is a student at York University. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the individual event. She won a gold medal at the 2003 world championships in Hannover, Germany in the same event and a bronze in the team event. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the individual event.

Dominique Bosshart (born October 7, 1977 in Morges, Switzerland) is a Canadian taekwondo athlete. She was Canada's only taekwondo competitor during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division (+ 67 kg). She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens but did not medal. Bosshart began studying taekwondo at age 13, at the urging of her brother. At age 15, she moved from living with her parents in Landmark, …

Jeff Adams (born November 15, 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a four-time Canadian Paralympian and a six-time world champion in wheelchair sports. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he won five medals, a gold in the 800 m and 1500 m, a silver in the 400 m and a bronze in the 5000 m and 4x100 m. In 2002, he climbed the 1,776 steps of the CN Tower in a specially-designed wheelchair; in 2004, he climbed the Acropolis. Currently he has been suspended for cocaine use.

Alexandre Despatie (born June 8, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian diver. He is the current World champion at the 1 and 3m springboard and is the first diver to have been World champion in the three categories (1, 3, 10m platform).

Ian Millar (born January 6, 1947) is a Canadian show jumping world champion. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ian Millar is the most successful show jumper in Canadian history. He is an eight-time winner of the Canadian Show Jumping Championship and has captured six Spruce Meadows Derbys. With his horse, Big Ben (1976-1999), Millar won more than 40 Grand Prix titles worldwide and the Show Jumping World Cup two years in a row. At the Pan American Games in August 1987, …

Mathieu Turgeon (born August 2, 1979 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. He unexpectedly won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in individual trampoline and qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics but failed to make the final. He is noted for performing very difficult routines but at the same time, not having the best form.

Nicolas Macrozonaris (born August 22, 1980) is a Canadian 100 m sprinter. Born in Laval, Quebec, of Greek descent, he began sprinting after being inspired by Donovan Bailey's Gold medal in the 100 m sprint in 1996 in Atlanta.

Diane Roy (born January 9, 1971 in Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec) is a Canadian wheelchair athlete. Her best two finishes at the 2002 world championships were both 8th place finishes, in the 400 m and in the marathon. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she finished fourth in the Women's 800m wheelchair.

Troy Amos-Ross (born July 17, 1975 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a retired Guyanese Canadian boxer, who competed in the light heavyweight (< 81 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There the resident of Brampton, Ontario was stopped in quarterfinals by Kazakhstan's eventual gold medalist Vassili Jirov, after having defeated Roland Raforme (Seychelles) and Paul M'Bongo (Cameroon). Amos-Ross also competed for Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …

Brian Johns (born August 5, 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is an Olympic swimmer from Canada. He grew up in Richmond, British Columbia and trained with the Aquanauts and Racers (later Rapids) swim clubs. He started swimming at age five. He is currently attending the University of British Columbia and is on the varsity swimming team. He held the world record in the 400 m Individual Medley (short-course), with a time of 4:02.72.

Karen Furneaux is a Canadian kayaker. She began kayaking at age 12, and is a student at Dalhousie University. She finished in 5th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's K2 500 m event, and has won two world championship gold medals, the first in K2 200 m in 1998 in Szeged, Hungary. The Second coming in the K1 200 m in 2001 in Poznań, Poland. She has also won two silver medals at world championships, the first in 1997 in the K4 200 m in Dartmouth, …

Émilie Heymans is a Canadian diver. She started diving in 1993. She won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in 10 m platform synchro with partner Anne Montminy. She won a gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain in the 10 m platform. She won a bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 10 m platform synchro with partner Blythe Hartley.

Alison Sydor (born September 9, 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian cross country mountain cyclist. She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals (1994 in Vail, Colorado; 1995 in Kirchzarten, Germany; 1996 in Cairns, Australia; and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun, …

Attila Buday (born June 28, 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian flatwater canoeist. He is a student at the University of Toronto. He finished in 7th at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the C2 1000m event, partnering his younger brother Tamas. Four years later, in Athens Olympics they again reached the final, this time coming eighth in the C2 500m. The pair have won three C2 1000m silver medals in world championships: in 2002 at Seville, Spain in 2003 at Gainesville, USA, …

Alan Brahmst (born September 27, 1965 in Hamburg, Germany) is a former field hockey defender from Canada, who earned his first international cap in 1986 for the Men's National Team against the Netherlands in Amstelveen. The resident of Toronto, Ontario created the Planet Field Hockey-website, originally called "Off The Crossbar", together with teammates Hari Kant and Andrew Griffiths.

Kamini Jain (born November 13, 1969 in Tripoli, Libya) is a Canadian kayaker. She's of Indian descent. She began kayaking at age 15, and is a graduate of Simon Fraser University. She finished in 9th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the K4 500 m event. She won a bronze medal in the world cup circuit in 2001 at Gainesville, Georgia in the K2 500 m.

Carrie Lightbound (born August 8, 1979 in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian kayaker. She began kayaking at age 10, and is a student at the University of Toronto. She finished in 9th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's K4 500 m.

Andrew Singh Kooner (born May 11, 1979 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England) is a Canadian boxer. Kooner moved to Tecumseh, Ontario at a young age and began boxing at age 13 out of a Windsor boxing club. He is a member of the Sikh religion. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he lost in the 2nd round in the bantamweight division. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished tied for fifth in the bantamweight (54kg) division. Kooner has recently turned pro and has a 6-1 Record.

Gavin Hassett (born July 13, 1973 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian rower. He began rowing in 1989. He won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the lightweight fours event, and he won a bronze medal at the 2002 world championships in Seville, Spain in the same event.

Jessica Chase (born July 11, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian synchronized swimmer. She began synchronized swimming at age 11. She won a bronze medal at the team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She is a graduate of the French program at the University of Toronto.

Mark Heese (born August 15, 1969 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian beach volleyball player. He began playing beach volleyball at age 19 at the Balmy Beach Club in Toronto, and is a graduate of McMaster University. Partnered with John Child, Heese is a three time Olympian - bronze medal in Atlanta (1996), 5th in Sydney (2000) and 5th in Athens (2004). Heese is helping the girls volleyball team at Country Day School and the gym classes currently.

Ann Dow is a Canadian water polo player. She is a graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Tamas Buday Jr. (born April 23, 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian flatwater canoeist. Partnering his brother Attila in the two-man sprint canoe, he finished seventh at the 2000 Olympics in the C2 1000 m event and eighth at Athens 2004 in the C2 500m The pair have won three C2 1000m silver medals in world championships: in 2002 at Seville, Spain in 2003 at Gainesville, USA, and in 2006 at Szeged, Hungary.

Marie Luc Arpin (born July 4, 1978 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec) is a Canadian water polo player. She is a graduate of McGill University. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Erin Chan (born August 9, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian synchronized swimmer. She began synchronized swimming at age seven. She won a bronze medal at the team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Chan also represented Canada in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece with fellow teammates Courtenay Stewart, Fanny Letourneau, Jessica Chase, Shayna Nackoney, Anouk Reniere-Lafreniere, …

Guivi Sissaouri (born April 15, 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler. He began wrestling at age eight. He won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the 57 kg class. He also won the gold at the 2001 world championships at Sofia, Bulgaria in the 58 kg class, a silver at the 1995 world championships in Atlanta, Georgia in the 57 kg class, a bronze at the 1998 world championships at Tehran, Iran in the 58 kg class, …

Anne Montminy (born January 28, 1975 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former competitive diver and, now, a lawyer.

Andrew Hurd (born August 12, 1982 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian freestyle swimmer. He began swimming at age eight and is a student at the University of Michigan. He won a gold medal on the world cup circuit in 2000 in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1500 m Freestyle event.

Cora Campbell (born May 28, 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian water polo player. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She was a member of the 7th place Canadian women's water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She graduated from Riverdale High School.

Johanne Bégin, born October 21, 1971 in Vanier, Quebec, is a Canadian water polo player. Bégin was a member of the fifth-placed women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and of the bronze-medal-winning team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Fanny Létourneau is a Canadian synchronized swimmer, who won the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in the Women's Duet alongside Claire Carver-Dias. Létourneau began synchronized swimming at age 10, and she is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also won two bronze medals at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan: one in the duet and one in the team.

Valerie Dionne (born July 29, 1980 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec) is a Canadian water polo player. She is a member of the national women's water polo team and has competed in five juvenile, 15 provincial, and 11 national championships. In 1999, the FINA Cup team on which she played qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics, where the team placed fifth in the final results. She was also part of the bronze medal-winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, …