In
2012,
Equestrian show jumper
Ian Millar competed at his tenth Summer Olympics, tying the record for most Olympic games participated in set by Austrian
sailor Hubert Raudaschl between 1964 and 1996. He has been named to eleven straight Olympic teams, but did not compete at the
1980 Summer Olympics due to the Canadian boycott. In 2008 he won his first medal, a silver medal in the
team jumping event.
Clara Hughes is the inaugural and only Olympian of any country or gender, to win medals all Olympic Games: two Summer and four Winter medals.
Cindy Klassen and
Charles Hamelin hold the record for most Winter medals won by a Canadian, with six apiece.
Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medallist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medallist, winning the men's moguls at the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He became the second Canadian to defend their Olympic gold, and first man. Trampoline gymnast
Rosie MacLennan was the first Canadian to defend their gold medal in an individual sport at the Summer Olympics. She won gold at the
2012 and
2016 Summer Olympics, the inaugural Olympian to defend their title in that discipline. After captaining the women's ice hockey team to gold at the
2014 Winter Olympics,
Caroline Ouellette became the first Winter Olympian of any country or gender to enter four or more career events and win gold in each. Oullette had previously won gold in ice hockey in
2002,
2006, and
2010.
Jennifer Jones skipped the Canadian women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics to a gold medal. She is the first ever female skip in Olympic history to be undefeated throughout the tournament. Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen and spare Kirsten Wall went unbeaten with an 11–0 record defeating China, Sweden (round-robin and finals), Great Britain (round-robin and semi-finals), Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, the United States, and Korea. During the
2016 Summer Olympics, swimmer
Penny Oleksiak became the inaugural Canadian of either gender to win four medals at a single Summer Games and the distinction of the country's youngest Olympic multiple medalist at the age of 16: a gold in the 100 m freestyle, a silver in the 100 m butterfly, and two bronzes in the women's freestyle relays (4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m). She shares the distinction of being the co-inaugural Olympic medalist born in the 21st century when, in women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay a few days earlier, she won the bronze medal with teammate
Taylor Ruck. After capturing gold in
2010 Winter Olympics,
Tessa Virtue and
Scott Moir became the inaugural ice dancers from North America to win an Olympic gold medal, ending the 34-year streak of the Europeans. They were the inaugural ice dance team to win the Olympic gold at home ice and the inaugural ice dancers to win gold at their Olympic debut. They are the youngest pair to win an Olympic title at 20 and 22 respectively. They would win two more silver medals at the
2014 Winter Olympics and two more gold medals at the
2018 Winter Olympics, giving them the distinction of being the most decorated figure skaters at the Winter Games. Broadcaster
Richard Garneau covered 23 Olympic Games, more than any other journalist in the world, starting with
Rome in 1960 to
London in 2012, missing only the
Atlanta and
Nagano Games. The
International Olympic Committee awarded him posthumously the
Pierre de Coubertin Medal in recognition of his exceptional service to the Olympic movement.
Top medal earners • Years in
bolded text are Olympics at which that competitor won a medal.
3+ medals at one Olympics Multiple gold medals at one Olympics ==See also==