Team Canada - Profile

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Canada won four gold medals at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, its best gold medal haul since 1992 in Barcelona. Athletes from the NOC claimed gold medals in swimming, athletics, trampolining and freestyle wrestling.

Canada made its first Olympic appearance in 1900, and since then has missed only the 1980 Games in Moscow. The NOC hosted the 1976 Games in Montreal, where Canadian athletes won a total of 11 medals of which none were gold. At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Canada claimed 10 gold medals in a total medal haul of 44. It remains the NOC's best performance at an Olympic Games.

The NOC has recorded most of its Olympic success in athletics, with Canadian competitors claiming a total of 14 gold medals in the sport. George Orton won Canada's first gold medal in any sport when he secured victory in the men's 2500m steeplechase at the 1900 Games in Paris, while Percy Williams secured the sprint double by claiming gold in the men's 100m and 200m in 1928 in Amsterdam. Duncan McNaughton won gold in the men's high jump in 1932, but the NOC had to wait for Mark McKoy to triumph in the 110m hurdles 60 years later in Barcelona for a Canadian athlete to win another gold medal in athletics. Sprinter Donovan Bailey then claimed gold medals in the men's 100m and 4x100m relay at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

Rowers Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean are the only Canadian athletes to have won three summer Olympic gold medals. They claimed gold competing together in the coxless pairs in 1992 and in the double sculls in 1996, and were also part of the women's eights team that secured gold in 1992. Another rower, Lesley Thompson-Willie, shares the record [five - one gold, three silver, one bronze] for most Olympic medals won by a Canadian. Phil Edwards, who competed in the 800m, 1500m and 4x400m relay, is the other athlete with the honour. The five medals he won between 1928 and 1936 were all bronze.

With 10 appearances at the Olympic Games between 1972 and 2012, Canada's equestrian Ian Millar has competed at more Games than any athlete from any other nation. Millar won one medal during that time, a silver in the team event in Beijing.

Canadian road cyclist and speed skater Clara Hughes has won medals at both the summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games. She claimed two bronze medals in road cycling at her first Games in Atlanta in 1996, and also competed four years later in Sydney. She then switched to speed skating and qualified for the 2002 Salt Lake Games where she won another bronze, in the women's 5000m. Hughes went on to win another three speed skating medals, one of each type, over the next two Olympic Winter Games in 2006 and 2010 before returning to cycling and competing at the 2012 Games in London, where she finished fifth in the time trial and 32nd in the road race.

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Anthem Title: O Canada

Anthem Composer: English by Robert Stanley Weir, French by Adolphe-Basile Routhier, music by Calixa Lavallee.

Anthem Inducted: 1980

Official NOC Name: Canadian Olympic Committee

Founding Date: 1904

IOC Recognition Date: 1907

Delegation President: Tricia Smith

Delegation Secretary General: David Shoemaker

IOC Members: Hayley Wickenheiser [entry in the IOC: 2014], Richard W Pound [entry in the IOC: 1978], Tricia Smith [entry in the IOC: 2016]

First OG/PG Appearance: 1900

Number OG/PG Appearances: 27 [Tokyo 2020 included]

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