Kelly Stefanyshyn
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Full name | Kelly Stefanyshyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1982-07-06) July 6, 1982 (age 42) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Pacific Dolphins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of British Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kelly Stefanyshyn (born July 6, 1982) is a Canadian competitive swimmer and backstroke specialist who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Stefanyshyn was a member of Canada's sixth-place team in the women's 4x100-metre medley relay. Individually, she also finished eighth in the women's 200-metre backstroke, and competed in the semifinals of the 100-metre backstroke.[1]
Stefanyshyn was previously a three-medal-winner at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She won a gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke, a silver in the 4x100-metre medley relay, and a bronze in the 200-metre backstroke.
She attended the University of British Columbia, where she was a member of the UBC Thunderbirds swimming and diving team in CIS competition from 2001 to 2004.
See also
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kelly Stefanyshyn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
External links
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at Swimming Canada
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at World Aquatics
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at Team Canada
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at Olympics.com
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at Olympic.org (archived)
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at Olympedia
- Kelly Stefanyshyn at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1951: Maureen O'Brien (USA)
- 1955: Leonore Fisher (CAN)
- 1959: Carin Cone (USA)
- 1963: Nina Harmer (USA)
- 1967: Elaine Tanner (CAN)
- 1971: Donna Gurr (CAN)
- 1975: Lynn Chenard (CAN)
- 1979: Linda Jezek (USA)
- 1983: Sue Walsh (USA)
- 1987: Silvia Poll Ahrens (CRC)
- 1991: Silvia Poll Ahrens (CRC)
- 1995: Barbara Bedford (USA)
- 1999: Kelly Stefanyshyn (CAN)
- 2003: Diana MacManus (USA)
- 2007: Julia Smit (USA)
- 2011: Rachel Bootsma (USA)
- 2015: Etiene Medeiros (BRA)
- 2019: Phoebe Bacon (USA)
- 2023: Josephine Fuller (USA)
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