Michelle Toro

Michelle Toro
Personal information
National team  Canada
Born (1991-01-02) January 2, 1991
Pretoria, South Africa
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 67 kg (148 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club High Performance Centre - Ontario[2]

Michelle Toro née Williams (born January 2, 1991) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the freestyle in the sprint distances.[2] She won a gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto in the 4 x 100 m freestyle and in the 4 x 100 m medley relay.[1] She also won a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 4 x 100 m freestyle.

She competed as part of Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[3] Williams would help fellow Canadians Taylor Ruck, Chantal van Landeghem and Sandrine Mainville in the women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay heats, with the team swimming the third fastest time. She then had to make way for teenage star Penelope Oleksiak in the final, where Oleksiak helped anchor the team to the bronze medal. [4] In an interview after the event, Williams said "we've come a long way, this group of us. It's our medal and it's our medal for Canada, it's just so amazing."[4]

Personal

Williams was born in Pretoria, South Africa and speaks fluent Afrikaans alongside English, she often goes back to South Africa to visit her family in Jeffreys Bay.[1] In December 2016, shortly after the Short Course World Swimming Championships, she married her childhood teammate Guillermo Toro.[5] They met when she was 12 and he was 14 at the North York Aquatic Club and started dating six years later.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Olympic team profile". Olympics Canada. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Michelle Williams". Swim Canada. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Team Nominated for Rio 2016". Swimming Canada. Swimming Canada. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Canada wins bronze in women's 4x100m freestyle relay". CBC Sports. August 7, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Heroux, Devin (December 11, 2016). "Canadian swimmer Michelle Williams finds her soulmate in the pool". CBC Sports. Retrieved May 4, 2017.


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