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Canada 28 July 2012: Olympic Games: London, United Kingdom: 200m breaststroke: 2:08.84 sf: Mike Brown Canada 13 August 2008: Olympic Games: Beijing, China: 50m butterfly: 23.25 sf: Finlay Knox Canada 11 February 2024: World Championships: Doha, Qatar [9] 100m butterfly: 49.99 CR: Joshua Liendo Canada 3 August 2024: Olympic Games: Paris, France ...
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is the National Olympic Committee for Canada. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada would win more gold medals than any other competing nation for the first time. Canada also served as the host nation of the 2010 Winter Olympics, with the games taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Olympics portal; Canada portal; International Olympic Committee results database; CBC Digital Archives – Golden Summers: Canada's Gold Medal Athletes 1984-2000; CBC Digital Archives – Gold Medal Athletes – 1948-1968
In 2004, Canada failed to win a medal of any colour in swimming for the first time in 40 years. At the Tokyo Olympics, Penny Oleksiak became the most decorated Canadian Olympian of all time, winning a total of 7 medals. At the Paris Olympics in 2024, Summer McIntosh became Canada's first three time Olympic gold medalist in swimming.
Canada qualified one male karateka after Daniel Gaysinsky finished in the top three at the 2021 Karate World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Paris, France. With the sport making its first appearance at the Games, this will also mark Canada's Olympic sport debut. [107] [108] Gaysinsky was officially named to the team on July 5, 2021. [109]
Canada competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for the United States-led boycott.
The International Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based swimming events at the Olympic Games. Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held.
A 100-metre pool was built for the 1908 Olympics and was located in the centre of the main stadium's track and field oval. The 1912 Olympics, held in the Stockholm harbor, marked the beginning of electrical timing. Male swimmers wore full body swimsuits up until the 1940s, which caused more drag in the water than their modern swim-wear ...