1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Canada)

CAN

3	11	8th

Canada participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , USA , with a delegation of 303 athletes (152 men and 151 women).

Medalist

With three won gold, eleven silver and eight bronze medals the Canadian team was ranked 21 in the medal count .

gold

Name / s	sport	competition
Donovan Bailey	athletics	100 meters
Robert Esmie , Glenroy Gilbert , Bruny Surin & Donovan Bailey	athletics	4 × 100 meters
Marnie McBean & Kathleen Heddle	rowing	Women, double sculls

silver

Name / s	sport	competition
David Defiagbon	Boxing	Heavyweight
Caroline Brunet	canoe	Women, single kayak, 500 yards
Brian Walton	Cycling	Points race
Alison Sydor	Cycling	Women, mountain bikes, cross-country
Guivi Sissaouri	Wrestling	Bantamweight, freestyle
Derek Porter	rowing	One
Brian Peaker , Jeffrey Lay , Dave Boyes & Gavin Hassett	rowing	Lightweight four without a helmsman
Silken Laumann	rowing	Women, one
Heather McDermid, Tosha Tsang, Maria Maunder, Alison Korn, Emma Robinson, Anna van der Kamp, Jessica Monroe, Theresa Luk & Lesley Thompson	rowing	Women, eighth
Marianne Limpert	swim	200 meter locations
Lisa Alexander, Janice Bremner, Karen Clark, Karen Fonteyne, Sylvie Fréchette, Christine Larsen, Cari Read & Erin Woodley	Synchronized swimming	Team competition

bronze

Name / s	sport	competition
John Child & Mark Heese	beach volleyball	Men's competition
Curt Harnett	Cycling	sprint
Clara Hughes	Cycling	Women, road races women, individual time trials
Laryssa Biesenthal , Diane O'Grady , Kathleen Heddle & Marnie McBean	rowing	Women, double fours
Curtis Myden	swim	200 meter layers 400 meter layers
Anne Pelletier	Diving	Women, jumping

Participants by sport

badminton

• Iain Sydie

  Singles: 9th place

  Doubles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 17th place

• Jaimie Dawson

  Individual: 17th place

  Doubles: 17th place

• Anil Kaul

  Doubles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 17th place

• Darryl Yung

  Doubles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 9th place

• Denyse Julien

  Women, singles: 17th place

  Women, doubles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 9th place

• Doris Piché

  Women, singles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 17th place

• Si-an Deng

  Women, doubles: 17th place

  Mixed, doubles: 17th place

basketball

• Women team

  11th place

• Squad

  Bev Smith

  Karla Karch-Gailus

  Camille Thompson

  Sue Stewart

  Shawna Molcak

  Jodi Evans

  Cynthia Johnston

  Dianne Norman

  Martina Jerant

  Kelly Boucher

  Andrea Blackwell

  Marlelynn Lange-Harris

Archery

• Jeannot Robitaille

  Singles: 37th place

  Team: 15th place

• Rob Rusnov

  Individual: 38th place

  Team: 15th place

• Kevin Sally

  Individual: 49th place

  Team: 15th place

Boxing

• Domenic Figliomeni

  Light flyweight: 17th place

• Claude Lambert

  Bantamweight: 17th place

• Casey Patton

  Featherweight: 17th place

• Mike Strange

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Phil Boudreault

  Light welterweight: 9th place

• Hercules Kyvelos

  Welterweight: 17th place

• Nick Farrell

  Light middleweight: 17th place

• Randall Thompson

  Middleweight: 17th place

• Troy Amos-Ross

  Light heavyweight: 5th place

• David Defiagbon

  Heavyweight: silver

• Jean-François Bergeron

  Super heavyweight: 9th place

fencing

• Jean-Marc Chouinard

  Epee, singles: 19th place

  Epee, team: 9th place

• Danek Nowosielski

  Epee, singles: 20th place

  Epee, team: 9th place

• James Ransomware

  Epee, singles: 38th place

  Epee, team: 9th place

• Jean-Paul Banos

  Saber, singles: 29th place

  Saber, team: 10th place

• Tony Plourde

  Saber, singles: 30th place

  Saber, team: 10th place

• Jean-Marie Banos

  Saber, single: 31st place

  Saber, team: 10th place

Weightlifting

• Jean Lavertue

  Featherweight: 28th place

• Serge Tremblay

  Lightweight: 13th place

Judo

• Taro Tan

  Half light weight: 17th place

• Colin Morgan

  Light middleweight: 21st place

• Nicolas Gill

  Middleweight: 7th place

• Keith Morgan

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

• Carolyne Lepage

  Women, super light weight: 13th place

• Nathalie Gosselin

  Women, half light weight: 14th place

• Marie-Josée Morneau

  Women, lightweight: 16th place

• Michelle Buckingham

  Women, light middleweight: 13th place

• Niki Jenkins

  Women, light heavyweight: 13th place

• Nancy Filteau

  Women, heavyweight: 9th place

canoe

• Run Crichlow

  Single kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

  Quad kayak, 1,000 meters: 7th place

• Erik Gervais

  Single kayak, 1,000 meters: quarter-finals

• Mihai Apostol

  Quad kayak, 1,000 meters: 7th place

• Peter Giles

  Quad kayak, 1,000 meters: 7th place

• Liam Jewell

  Quad kayak, 1,000 meters: 7th place

• David Ford

  Single kayak, slalom: 15th place

• Steve Giles

  Single Canoe, 500 meters: 8th place

  Two-man Canadians, 1,000 meters: 9th place

• Gavin Maxwell

  Canadians, 1,000 meters: semi-finals

• Attila Buday

  Two-man Canadians, 500 meters: semi-finals

• Tamas Buday junior

  Two-man Canadians, 500 meters: semi-finals

• Dan Howe

  Two-man Canadians, 1,000 meters: 9th place

• Larry Norman

  Single Canoe, Slalom: 18th place

• Benoît Gauthier

  Two-man canoe, slalom: 8th place

• François Letourneau

  Two-man canoe, slalom: 8th place

• Caroline Brunet

  Women, single kayak, 500 meters: silver

• Marie-Josée Gibeau-Ouimet

  Women, two-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

  Women, four-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

• Corrina Kennedy

  Women, two-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

  Women, four-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

• Alison Herst

  Women, four-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

• Klara MacAskill

  Women, four-person kayak, 500 meters: 5th place

• Margaret Langford

  Women, single kayak, slalom: 8th place

• Sheryl Boyle

  Women, single kayak, slalom: 27th place

athletics

• Donovan Bailey

  100 meters: gold

  4 × 100 meters: gold

• Bruny Surin

  100 meters: semi-finals

  4 × 100 meters: gold

• Glenroy Gilbert

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 100 meters: gold

• O'Brian Gibbons

  200 meters: heats

• Carlton Chambers

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: gold

• Peter Ogilvie

  200 meters: heats

• Graham Hood

  1,500 meters: heats

• Jeff Schiebler

  10,000 meters: heats

• Peter Fonseca

  Marathon: 21st place

• Carey Nelson

  Marathon: 35th place

• Bruce Deacon

  Marathon: 39th place

• Tim Kroeker

  110 meter hurdles: quarter-finals

• Joël Bourgeois

  3,000 meter obstacle: semi-finals

• Robert Esmie

  4 × 100 meters: gold

• Martin St. Pierre

  20 kilometers of walking: 36th place

• Arturo Huerta

  20 kilometers of walking: 42nd place

• Tim Berrett

  50 kilometers of walking: 10th place

• Charles Lefrançois

  High jump: 15th place in qualification

• Richard Duncan

  Long jump: 34th place in qualification

• Brad Snyder

  Shot put: 31st place in qualification

• Jason Tunks

  Discus throw: 33rd place in qualification

• Mike Smith

  Decathlon: 13th place

• Tara Perry

  Women, 200 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• LaDonna Antoine

  Women, 400 meters: quarter-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Charmaine Crooks

  Women, 800 meters: heats

• Leah Pells

  Women, 1,500 meters: 4th place

• Paula Schnurr

  Women, 1,500 meters: heats

• Kathy Butler

  Women, 5,000 meters: heats

• Robyn Meagher

  Women, 5,000 meters: heats

• Danuta Bartoszek

  Women, marathon: 32nd place

• May Allison

  Women, marathon: 52nd place

• Katie Anderson

  Women, 100 meter hurdles: quarter finals

  Women, 4 ×θ 100 meters: heats

• Lesley Tashlin

  Women, 100 meter hurdles: prelims

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Sonia Paquette

  Women, 100 meter hurdles: prelims

• Rosey Edeh

  Women, 400 meter hurdles: 6th place

• Janice McCaffrey

  Women, 10 km walking: 25th place

• Tina Poitras

  Women, 10 km walking: 32nd place

• Nicole Devonish

  Women, long jump: 34th place in qualification

• Catherine Bond-Mills

  Heptathlon: 25th place

Cycling

• Steve Bauer

  Road race, singles: 41st place

• Michael Barry

  Road race, individual: 64th place

• Gord Fraser

  Road race, individual: 75th place

• Eric Wohlberg

  Road race, individual: 80th place

  Individual time trial: 26th place

• Jacques Landry

  Road race, individual: 88th place

• Curt Harnett

  Sprint: bronze

• Brian Walton

  Points race: silver

• Warren Sallenback

  Mountain bike, cross-country: 13th place

• Andreas Hestler

  Mountain bike, cross-country: 31st place

• Clara Hughes

  Women, street races, singles: bronze

  Women, individual time trial: bronze

• Sue Palmer-Komar

  Women, road races, singles: 10th place

• Linda Jackson

  Women, road races, singles: ??

  Women, individual time trial: 9th place

• Tanya Dubnicoff

  Women, sprint: 8th place

• Alison Sydor

  Women, mountain bikes, cross-country: silver

• Lesley Tomlinson

  Women, mountain bikes, cross-country: 13th place

horse riding

• Leonie Bramall

  Dressage, individual: 29th place

  Dressage, team: 10th place

• Evi Strasser

  Dressage, individual: 43rd place

  Dressage, team: 10th place

• Gina Smith

  Dressage, individual: 44th place

  Dressage, team: 10th place

• Ian Millar

  Show jumping, individual: 46th place in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 16th place

• Mac Cone

  Show jumping, individual: 52nd place in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 16th place

• Linda Southern-Heathcott

  Show jumping, individual: 58th place in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 16th place

• Christopher Delia

  Show jumping, singles: 66th place in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 16th place

• Kelli McMullen-Temple

  Versatility, singles: 18th place

  Versatility, team: 14th place

• Claire Smith

  Versatility, team: 14th place

• Stuart Young-Black

  Versatility, team: 14th place

• Therese Washtock

  Versatility, team: 14th place

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

• Camille Martens

  Singles: preliminary

Wrestling

• Ainsley Robinson

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 18th place

• Colin Daynes

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 14th place

• Doug Cox

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 19th place

• Colbie Bell

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place

• Yogi Johl

  Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 13th place

• Paul Ragusa

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 16th place

• Greg Woodcroft

  Flyweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Gia Sissaouri

  Bantamweight, freestyle: silver

• Marty Calder

  Featherweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Craig Roberts

  Lightweight, freestyle: 12th place

• David Hohl

  Welterweight, freestyle: 9th place

• Scott Bianco

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 15th place

• Oleg Ladik

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Andrew Borodow

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 14th place

rowing

• Derek Porter-Nesbitt

  One: silver

• Michael Forgeron

  Double scull: 7th place

• Todd Hallett

  Double scull: 7th place

• Greg Stevenson

  Eighth: 4th place

• Phil Graham

  Eighth: 4th place

• Henry Herring

  Eighth: 4th place

• Mark Platt

  Eighth: 4th place

• Darren Barber

  Eighth: 4th place

• Andy Crosby

  Eighth: 4th place

• Scott Brodie

  Eighth: 4th place

• Adam Parfitt

  Eighth: 4th place

• Pat Newman

  Eighth: 4th place

• Jeffrey Lay

  Lightweight four without a helmsman: silver

• Dave Boyes

  Lightweight four without a helmsman: silver

• Gavin Hassett

  Lightweight four without a helmsman: silver

• Brian Peaker

  Lightweight four without a helmsman: silver

• Silken Laumann

  Women, one: silver

• Marnie McBean

  Women, double sculls: gold

  Women, double fours: bronze

• Kathleen Heddle

  Women, double sculls: gold

  Women, double fours: bronze

• Emma Robinson

  Two without a helmsman: 5th place

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Anna van der Kamp

  Two without a helmsman: 5th place

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Laryssa Biesenthal

  Women, double fours: bronze

• Diane O'Grady

  Women, double fours: bronze

• Heather McDermid

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Tosha Tsang

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Maria Maunder

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Alison Korn

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Jessica Monroe

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Theresa Luke

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Lesley Thompson

  Women, figure eight: silver

• Colleen Miller

  Women, lightweight double sculls: 7th place

• Wendy Wiebe

  Women, lightweight double sculls: 7th place

shoot

• Jean-François Sénécal

  Air rifle: 30th place

• Michel Dion

  Small caliber, three-position battle: 43rd place

  Small caliber, lying: 30th place

• George Leary

  Trap: 8th place

• Ian Shaw

  Trap: 45th place

• Kirk Reynolds

  Double trap: 12th place

• Rod Boll

  Double trap: 19th place

• Clayton Miller

  Skeet: 20th place

• Jason Caswell

  Skeet: 53rd place

• Cynthia Meyer

  Women, double trap: 15th place

swim

• Hugues Legault

  50 meter freestyle: 39th place

• Stephen Clarke

  100 meters freestyle: 15th place

  100 meter butterfly: 7th place

  4 × 100 meters: 12th place

• Rob Braknis

  100 meters back: 16th place

  4 × 100 meters: 12th place

• Chris Renaud

  100 meters back: 18th place

  200 meters back: 10th place

• Jon Cleveland

  100 meters chest: 23rd place

  200 meters chest: 15th place

  4 × 100 meters: 12th place

• Eddie Parenti

  100 meter butterfly: 15th place

  4 × 100 meters: 12th place

• Casey Barrett

  200 meter butterfly: 11th place

• Curtis Myden

  200 meter layers: bronze

  400 meter medley: bronze

• Martine Dessureault

  Women, 50 meters freestyle: 26th place

• Laura Nicholls

  Women, 50 meters freestyle: 29th place

• Shannon Shakespeare

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: 17th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: 7th place

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 5th place

• Joanne Malar

  Women, 200 meters freestyle: 16th place

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 200 meter medley: 4th place

  Women, 400 meter medley: 9th place

• Andrea Schwartz

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 20th place

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 200 meters butterfly: 6th place

• Nikki Dryden

  Women, 800 meters freestyle: 14th place

• Stephanie Richardson

  Women, 800 meters freestyle: 19th place

• Julie Howard

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: 7th place

  Women, 100 meters back: 15th place

  Women, 200 meters back: 20th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 5th place

• Andrea Moody

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: 7th place

• Marianne Limpert

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: 7th place

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 200 meter medley: silver

• Jessica Deglau

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 200 meters butterfly: 6th place

• Sophie Simard

  Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: 5th place

• Guylaine Cloutier

  Women, 100 meters chest: 6th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 5th place

• Lisa Flood

  Women, 100 meters chest: 10th place

• Christin Petelski

  Women, 200 meters chest: 8th place

• Riley Mants

  Women, 200 meters chest: 19th place

• Sarah Evanetz

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: 15th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 5th place

• Jessica Amey

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: 25th place

• Nancy Sweetnam

  Women, 400 meter medley: 11th place

sailing

• Alain Bolduc

  Windsurfing: 16th place

• Richard Clarke

  Finn Dinghy: 9th place

• Paul Hannam

  470s: 20th place

• Brian Storey

  470s: 20th place

• Rod Davies

  Laser: 26th place

• Ross MacDonald

  Star: 14th place

• Eric Jespersen

  Star: 14th place

• Marc Peers

  Tornado: 11th place

• Roy Janse

  Tornado: 11th place

• Bill Abbott

  Soling: 5th place

• Joanne Abbott

  Soling: 5th place

• Brad Boston

  Soling: 5th place

• Caroll-Ann Alie

  Women, windsurfing: 12th place

• Tine Moberg-Parker

  Women, Europe: 13th place

• Leigh Andrew-Pearson

  Women, 470s: 9th place

• Penny Stamper-Davis

  Women, 470s: 9th place

Softball

• Women team

  5th place

• Squad

  Sandy Beasley

  Juanita Clayton

  Karen Doell

  Carrie Flemmer

  Kelly Kelland

  Kara McGaw

  Pauline Maurice

  Candace Murray

  Christine Parris

  Lori Sippel

  Karen Snelgrove

  Debbie Sonnenberg

  Alecia Stephenson

  Colleen Thorburn-Smith

  Carmie Vairo

Synchronized swimming

• Women team

  Silver

• Squad

  Christine Larsen

  Karen Clark

  Sylvie Fréchette

  Janice Bremner

  Karen Fonteyne

  Valérie Hould-Marchand

  Erin Woodley

  Cari Read

  Lisa Alexander

tennis

• Daniel Nestor

  Singles: 33rd place

  Doubles: 9th place

• Sébastien Lareau

  Singles: 33rd place

• Grant Connell

  Doubles: 9th place

• Patricia Hy-Boulais

  Women, singles: 17th place

  Women, doubles: 5th place

• Jana Nejedly

  Women, singles: 33rd place

• Jill Hetherington

  Women, doubles: 5th place

Table tennis

• Wenguan Huang

  Singles: 5th place

  Doubles: 17th place

• Joe Ng

  Individual: 49th place

  Doubles: 17th place

• Lijuan Geng

  Women, singles: 9th place

  Women, doubles: 17th place

• Petra Cada

  Women, singles: 49th place

• Barbara Chiu

  Women, doubles: 17th place

do gymnastics

• Alan Nolet

  Individual all-around: 56th place in qualification

  Bars: 80th place in qualification

  Floor: 72nd place in qualification

  Horse jump: 76th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 74th place in qualification

  Rings: 81st place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 78th place in qualification

• Richard Ikeda

  Individual all-around: 63rd place in qualification

  Bars: 91st place in qualification

  Floor: 80th place in qualification

  Horse jump: 90th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 91st place in qualification

  Rings: 96th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 45th place in qualification

• Kris Burley

  Individual all-around: 69th place in qualification

  Bars: 64th place in qualification

  Floor: 81st place in qualification

  Horse jump: 40th place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 88th place in qualification

  Rings: 97th place in qualification

  Pommel horse: 96th place in qualification

• Yvonne Tousek

  Women, individual all-around: 26th place

  Women, floor: 56th place in qualification

  Women, horse jump: 58th place in qualification

  Women, balance beam: 30th place in qualification

  Women, uneven bars: 71st place in qualification

• Jennifer Exaltacion

  Women, individual all-around: 54th place in the qualification

  Women, floor: 82nd place in qualification

  Women, horse jump: 80th place in qualification

  Women, balance beam: 47th place in qualification

  Women, uneven bars: 68th place in qualification

• Shanyn MacEachern

  Women, individual all-around: 62nd place in qualification

  Women, floor: 67th place in qualification

  Women, horse jump: 52nd place in qualification

  Women, balance beam: 87th place in qualification

  Women, uneven bars: 55th place in qualification

Volleyball (beach)

• John Child

  Men's competition: bronze

• Mark Heese

  Men's competition: bronze

• Ed Drakich

  Men's competition: 17th place

• Marc Dunn

  Men's competition: 17th place

• Margo Malowney

  Women's competition: 17th place

• Barb Broen Ouellette

  Women's competition: 17th place

Volleyball (hall)

• Women team

  9th place

• Squad

  Diane Ratnik

  Josée Corbeil

  Katrina from Sass

  Brigitte Soucy

  Erminia Russo

  Michelle Sawatzky

  Janis Kelly

  Lori Ann Mundt

  Kathy Tough

  Wanda Guenette

  Christine Stark

  Kerri Ann Buchberger

Diving

• Philippe Comtois

  Art jumping: 16th place

• David Bédard

  Art jumping: 19th place

• Annie Pelletier

  Women, jumping: bronze

• Eryn Bulmer

  Women, jumping: 21st place

• Paige Gordon

  Women, diving: 21st place

• Anne Montminy

  Women, diving: 24th place

Web links

• Canadian Olympic team from 1996 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )