Sylvie Fréchette
Sylvie Fréchette (born June 27, 1967 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian synchronized swimmer .
Fréchette began synchronized swimming in Montreal at the age of eight and was inducted into the Canadian national team in 1983. In 1987 she was a silver medalist at the Pan American Games , which was her greatest success up to that point. She won her first international title at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and a year later she became world champion in Perth .
Shortly before the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , she suffered a severe blow of fate when her fiancé took his own life. At the games, the judges' evaluation of Fréchette's compulsory program caused a scandal. A Brazilian judge rated a figure 0.4 points too low, but noticed her mistake and reported this with a show of hands. But this was ignored or overlooked by the other judges. At the end of the competition, Fréchette was 0.251 points behind Kristen Babb-Sprague from the USA , a protest by the Canadian team was rejected. At the intervention of IOC Executive Member Richard Pound from Canada, Sylvie Fréchette was also subsequently awarded a gold medal, but the score remained unchanged.
At the 1996 Atlanta Games , she won silver with the group as a member of the Canadian team.
Professionally, she worked for the Canadian National Bank, where she was employed as a spokesperson.
Individual evidence
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
- Sven Simon + SID : Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Albertville. Copress Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0351-2
Web links
- Sylvie Fréchette in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
- Sylvie Fréchette in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fréchette, Sylvie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian synchronized swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |