Three Canadian Olympic gold medalists will be inducted into the Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary, Alberta in 2019. They are hockey player Martin Brodeur of Montreal, Quebec (men’s ice hockey), Jayna Hefford of Trenton, Ontario (women’s hockey) and Alexandre Bilodeau of Rosemere, Quebec (men’s moguls).
Brodeur won a gold medal for Canada at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Hefford won a gold medal for Canada at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Bilodeau won a gold medal for Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Bilodeau made sports headlines when he became the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal at an Olympic Games in Canada.
In addition to the three Olympic gold medalists, the inductees will be open water marathon swimmer Vicki Keith of Winnipeg, Manitoba, former Canadian Football League commissioner Doug Mitchell of Calgary, Alberta, Paralympic multi-sport athlete and medalist Colette Bourgonje of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (wheelchair racing and para nordic sit skiing), former Quebec Rowing Association president Guylaine Bernier of Saint-Leon-le-Grand, Quebec, and former Canadian women’s water polo player Waneek Horn-Miller of Montreal, Quebec. In the coming weeks stay tuned to www.canadiansportscene.com for my exclusive interviews with Hefford and Mitchell.
