Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Canada women's national ice hockey team: Meghan Agosta, Gillian Apps, Jennifer Botterill, Cassie Campbell, Gillian Ferrari, Danielle Goyette, Jayna Hefford, Becky Kellar, Gina Kingsbury, Charline Labonté, Carla MacLeod, Caroline Ouellette, Cherie Piper, Cheryl Pounder, Colleen Sostorics, Kim St-Pierre, Vicky Sunohara, Sarah Vaillancourt, Katie ...
The Winnipeg Falcons were a senior men's amateur ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Winnipeg Falcons won the 1920 Allan Cup. That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium. There the Falcons, soundly beating all their opponents, won for Canada the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey.
Year Host Champion Winning coach Winning captain Top scorer(s) 1996: Atlanta United States Tony DiCicco: Carla Overbeck: Ann Kristin Aarønes (4) Linda Medalen (4) Pretinha (4) ...
Picture of the Gold Medal-winning Winnipeg Falcons taken en route to the 1920 Olympics (photo includes an unidentified ship's officer and a woman) Winnipeg has a storied hockey history and has been home to several top amateur and professional hockey clubs. The Winnipeg Victorias were three-time Stanley Cup champions (1896, 1901 and 1902).
Hewitt and the Winnipeg Falcons at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) chose the Winnipeg Falcons as the 1920 Allan Cup champions to represent the Canada men's national team in ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics, instead of forming a national all-star team on short notice.
Back in Winnipeg, Frederickson captained the Winnipeg Falcons, [15] to the 1920 Allan Cup and then to the first gold medal offered in ice hockey at the 1920 Olympics at Antwerp. [16] Following the Olympics he moved to Iceland to work for Flugfélag Íslands , the first airliner in the country, in introducing airplanes to the local population.
The Winnipeg Falcons en route to the 1920 Olympics, where they won the inaugural gold medal in ice hockey (photo includes an unidentified ships' officer and a woman) The 1920 Summer Olympics ice hockey rosters consisted of 60 players on 7 national ice hockey teams. [ 1 ]
The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes. However, the advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at ...