List of Olympians and Paralympians from Peel, Ontario

There have been increasing numbers of Olympians and Paralympians from Peel, as decades pass, with most representing Canada. The first known Winter Olympic athlete with a direct connection to Peel was Bert McCaffrey, who earned a gold medal is ice hockey. With the 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokyo cancelled, Bert Oldershaw holds the honour for the summer; he would later found the Mississauga Canoe Club, an influential training facility.

Athletes with roots in Peel have, in recent years, competed for the countries of Germany, Poland, and United States.

In some cases, athletes are listed merely with a community name, and no specification of whether they were born, raised, or lived in this municipality. Such cases are generally individuals who have been inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame or Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame, whose induction profiles are inspecific.

Included on the list are athletes who have never lived in Peel, but trained in or competed in the Region. These instances include competitors for the National Women's Hockey League, and members of the Mississauga Canoe Club. Indeed, Peel's entire representation at the 1972 Munich Olympics are canoeists from the Mississauga Canoe Club. Swimmer Reema Abdo is now an OPP officer based in Caledon.

All athletes competed for  Canadian/ Canada, unless otherwise noted by a flag.

Summer Olympians and Paralympians

1932 Los Angeles Olympics

  • Janet Rosalie Sheater, swimming, born and raised in Port Credit

1940 Tokyo Olympics

The 1940 Games were cancelled by the outbreak of World War II. The Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame asserts that the following person was to compete at the Olympics:

  • Al Waites, swimming, later lived in Mississauga

1948 London Olympics

  • Bert Oldershaw, canoe, later the founder of the Mississauga Canoe Club

1952 Helsinki Olympics

  • Bert Oldershaw, canoe, later the founder of the Mississauga Canoe Club

1956 Melbourne Olympics

  • Bert Oldershaw, canoe, later the founder of the Mississauga Canoe Club

1964 Tokyo Olympics

A result of her wins in international competitions and her Olympic appearance, a residential street and park were named for Nancy McCredie.[1]

  • Mac Hickox, canoe alternate, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Gabor Joo, canoe-kayak sprint, Mississauga
  • Nancy McCredie, track and field (discus and shot put), raised in Brampton[2]

1968 Mexico City Olympics

  • Marjorie Homer-Dixon, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Gabor Joo, canoe-kayak sprint, Mississauga
  • Scott Lee, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Wolf Ruck, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • John Wood, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club

Ernest Samuel of Mississauga-owned Canadian Club was ridden by Jim Day, a King Township, York County rider.[3]

 United States

  • Mac Hickox, canoe/kayak, lived in the Town of Port Credit, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club[4]

1968 International Stoke Mandeville Games

Known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games at the time, the event took place in Tel Aviv. They are now referred to as the third Paralympics.

  • Dale Moe, discus throw, javelin, weight lifting, shot put, basketball, Town of Port Credit[5][6]

1972 Munich Olympics

Town of Mississauga's Ernest Samuel owned Steelmaster, ridden by Jim Day in the individual show jumping category.

1976 Montreal Olympics

  • Jeremy Abbott, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Lise Arsenault, gymnastics
  • Evert Bastet, sailing, Mississauga, crew member for Fogh
  • Hans Fogh, sailing
  • James Louis McLoughlin, soccer, immigrated to Brampton, member of Chinguacousy (Youth) Soccer Club and Bramalea Thistle Soccer Club
  • Dean Oldershaw, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Reed Oldershaw, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Bruce Rogers, swimming
  • Gregory Smith, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Julie White, high jump, Brampton
  • John Wood, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club

Simpatico, ridden by Jim Day in the show jumping competition, was owned by City of Mississauga's Ernest Samuel.

 ATG

  • Paul Richard, track and field

1980 Moscow Olympics

As a nation, Canada boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics, part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.[8] The following athletes are known to have qualified to compete:

  • Jeremy Abbott, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Sheila Forshaw, field hockey, raised in Mississauga (Erindale)
  • Doug Hings, track and field[9]
  • Gregory Smith, canoe, member of the Mississauga Canoe Club
  • Ellen Stewart, gymnastics, lived in Mississauga[10]

1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Silken Laumann, joined in 1984 only by her sister Daniele, competed at a series of Olympics. Her achievements were honoured in 1995 by the City of Mississauga with a residential road in her name.[11][12][13] Field hockey player Zoe MacKinnon is the first known Olympic athlete with a connection to Caledon or its predecessor municipalities. Once in Canada, Dewith Fraser coached Canadian Olympic boxers, twice.

 Jamaica

  • Dewith Fraser, boxing, would later move to Brampton and Mississauga and run a boxing studio

1988 Seoul Olympics

Brampton resident and Brampton Sports Hall of Fame member Ken Cheung refereed taekwondo matches in 1988 and 1992. The men's gymnastics team was 14th place internationally going into the Olympics, but qualified after Cuba and North Korea dropped out of contention.[22] Andrea Owoc was under consideration for the female gymnastics team in August, a month before the Games, but was not chosen.[22] Blair Hicken was listed as a confirmed swimmer for the games, with Haddow and Kerr, but is not listed as having competed. Brad Creelman was speculated to qualify, but did not.[22] As of a month before the Games, various athletes were expected to qualify: Angela Bailey (track and field), Brad Creelman (swimming), Angela Phipps (track and field), Donna Smellie (heptathlon).[22]

1988 Seoul Paralympics

  • Jeff Adams, wheelchair track, born and raised in Brampton

1992 Barcelona Olympics

While men's springboard diver Mark Rourke was typically billed as being from Quebec, one Toronto Star results page listed him as from Mississauga.[30]

1996 Atlanta Olympics

1996 Atlanta Paralympics

  • Jeff Adams, wheelchair track, born and raised in Brampton

2000 Sydney Olympics

Barrie Shepley, Caledon, was the head coach of the triathlon team. Alan Trivett, Brampton, was the tennis team leader. Tamas Buday Sr., Mississauga, was a sprint team assistant coach.

 Poland

2000 Sydney Paralympics

2004 Athens Olympics

 United States

  • Cindy Eadie, softball, played for the Brampton Thunder ice hockey team

2004 Athens Paralympics

  • Jeff Adams, wheelchair track, born and raised in Brampton
  • Stéphanie Dixon, swimming, born and raised in Brampton, member of the COBRA Swim Club[32]
  • Judi Island, equestrian, born in Brampton
  • Kyle Pettey, discus throw, shot put, lives in Brampton
  • Karen Van Nest, shooting, Mississauga

2008 Beijing Olympics

2008 Beijing Paralympics

  • Stéphanie Dixon, swimming, born and raised in Brampton, member of the COBRA Swim Club[32]
  • Kyle Pettey, discus throw, shot put, lives in Brampton
  • Brock Richardson, boccia, lives in Brampton
  • Karen Van Nest, shooting, Mississauga

2012 London Olympics

2012 London Paralympics

  • Brandon King, track and field, born and lives in Brampton
  • Kyle Pettey, shot put, lives in Brampton
  • Brock Richardson, boccia, lives in Brampton
  • Karen Van Nest, Archery, Mississauga

2016 Summer Olympics

 Jamaica

 Malta

Charles Allen (Brampton and Mississauga) is a sprints/hurdles coach. Caledon East athletic therapist Andrea Prieur is on the Canadian team's support crew.[36] Torontonians Jennifer Martins (rower) and Arthur Biyarslanov (boxer) train in Mississauga.[34]

2016 Summer Paralympics

  • Tess Routliffe, Caledon
  • Erica Scarff, paracanoe, KL3 - 200m - Women, Mississauga

Winter Olympians and Paralympians

1924 Chamonix Olympics

  • Bert McCaffrey, ice hockey, born in the Township of Albion to a father from Caledon East, interred in Caledon East[37]

1928 St. Moritz Olympics

1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics

  • John Sands, speed skating, moved later to Mississauga

1960 Squaw Valley Olympics

  • John Sands, speed skating, moved later to Mississauga

1968 Grenoble Olympics

1984 Sarajevo Olympics

1988 Calgary Olympics

  • Chris Felix, ice hockey, member of the Chinguacousy Minor Hockey Association

1992 Albertville Olympics

  • Mark Janoschak, pairs ice dancer, born in Chinguacousy Township (Bramalea)
  • Karen Preston, figure skating, born and raised in Mississauga (Erindale)

1994 Lillehammer Olympics

1998 Nagano Olympics

Sami Jo Small

The number of Peel athletes in the Winter Olympics increases greatly, beginning in 1998, thanks to women's ice hockey. The National Women's Hockey League replaced the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League for the 1999-2000 season, and included a new team in Brampton, in addition to the existing Mississauga Chiefs. Between the two teams and their direct successors, many of the country's top players are represented locally. All of them were born and raised outside of Peel, except for Brampton's Cassie Campbell; a recreation centre there is named in her honour.

2002 Salt Lake City Olympics

2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics

2006 Torino Olympics

 Germany

 United States

2006 Torino Paralympics

2010 Vancouver Olympics

Nash first appeared at the 2010 Olympics.

 Germany

 United States

2010 Vancouver Paralympics

2014 Sochi Olympics

 United States

2014 Sochi Paralympics

Anthony Gale

Five members of the 2014 men's sledge hockey team play on Halton Peel Cruisers, a team run by a multisport organization called Cruisers Sports for the Physically Disabled. Along with two athletes from Brampton and two from Mississauga, the team also includes Greg Westlake, who lives elsewhere.

  • Brad Bowden, sledge hockey, born in Mississauga
  • Billy Bridges, sledge hockey, lives in Mississauga
  • Anthony Gale, sledge hockey, lives in Brampton, member of Halton Peel Cruisers (Mississauga)
  • Karl Ludwig, sledge hockey, lives in Brampton, member of Halton Peel Cruisers (Mississauga)

2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

 South Korea

2018 Pyeongchang Paralympics

Medal chart

Name Municipality Sport Gold Silver Bronze Years in which the athlete won one or more medals
Stephanie Dixon Brampton swimming 7 8 2 2004, 2008
Jayna Hefford Brampton ice hockey 4 1 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
Jeff Adams Brampton wheelchair track 3 4 6 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004
Jennifer Botterill Mississauga ice hockey 3 1 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010
Cherie Piper Brampton/Mississauga ice hockey 3 2002, 2006, 2010
Cassie Campbell Brampton/Mississauga ice hockey 2 1 1998, 2002, 2006
Sami Jo Small Mississauga ice hockey 2 1 1998, 2002, 2006
Vicky Sunohara Brampton ice hockey 2 1 1998, 2002, 2006
Gillian Ferrari Brampton ice hockey 2 2002, 2006
Cheryl Pounder Mississauga ice hockey 2 2002, 2006
Gillian Apps Mississauga ice hockey 1 2014
Brad Bowden Mississauga sledge hockey 1 2006
Billy Bridges Mississauga sledge hockey 1 2006
Carlton Chambers Brampton track and field 1 1996
Caleb Flaxey Caledon/Mississauga curling 1 2014
Robert Marland Mississauga rowing 1 1992
Hugh Plaxton Mississauga ice hockey 1 1928
Bert McCaffrey Caledon (then Albion Township) ice hockey 1 1924
Kirsten Wall Mississauga curling 1 2014
Silken Laumann Mississauga rowing 1 2 1984, 1992, 1996
Molly Englstrom Brampton ice hockey (Team USA) 1 1 2006, 2010
Lisa Alexander Mississauga synchronized swimming 1 1996
Angela Bailey Mississauga track and field 1 1984
Karen Clark Mississauga synchronized swimming 1 1996
Jeff Lay Mississauga rowing 1 1996
Leslie Reddon Mississauga ice hockey 1 1998
Penny Vilagos Brampton synchronized swimming 1 1992
Vicky Vilagos Brampton synchronized swimming 1 1992
John Wood Mississauga canoe 1 1976
Claire Carver-Dias Mississauga synchronized swimming 1 2000
Jonelle Filigno Mississauga soccer 1 2012
Robyn Gayle Mississauga soccer 1 2012
Allison Higson Mississauga swimming 1 1988
Sterling Hinds Mississauga track and field 1 1984
Chris Johnson Mississauga boxing 1 1992
Kathleen Kauth Brampton ice hockey (Team USA) 1 2006
Jane Kerr Mississauga swimming 1 1988
Daniele Laumann Mississauga rowing 1 1984
Diana Matheson Mississauga soccer 1 2012
Carmelina Moscato Mississauga soccer 1 2012
Kelly Russell Caledon rugby 1 2016
Brampton Olympic 15 6 2 23
Brampton Paralympic 11 12 8 31
Mississauga Olympic 16 10 12 38
Mississauga Paralympic 2 0 0
Caledon Olympic 2 0 0 2
Caledon Paralympic 0 0 0 0
Total 39 28 22 87

IOC sanctioned events

Now called the Deaflympics, the Belgrade World Games for the Deaf is an IOC-sanctioned elite-level event. Linda Russell competed in the 1969 track and field competition.[45]

References

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  4. ↑ "Mac Hickox included in U.S. paddling team". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. 4 September 1968. p. 28.
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