 Fréchette in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1967-06-27) June 27, 1967 (age 57) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Canada |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Synchronised swimming |
| Club | Montréal Synchro Inc |
| Medal record | |
Sylvie Fréchette, MSC (born 27 June 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.
Career
Fréchette competed in the women's solo at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In the technical figures routine, a Brazilian judge accidentally entered a score of 8.7 instead of 9.7, costing her first place; after several appeals by the Canadian Olympic Committee, her medal was upgraded to gold. Kristen Babb-Sprague, the beneficiary of the judge's error, was allowed to keep her gold medal.
Fréchette's success in the pool continued with a silver medal in the women's team event at the following Olympics. In 1999, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. She has also contributed as a swimmer, designer, and coach to the synchronized-swimming portions of Cirque du Soleil's water-based stage production O, which opened in 1998 at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.
In 2006, Fréchette became an ambassador for Oxfam.
Fréchette ran for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election, as the party's candidate in the Quebec riding of Rivière-du-Nord. She came in third and, after the election, ascribed her loss to party leader Andrew Scheer's inability to take a stance on abortions.
Personal life
Sylvie Frechette was engaged to her business partner Sylvain Lake, who committed suicide a week before the 1992 Games. Lake was a television track analyst and former 400m track athlete.
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Rivière-du-Nord | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Rhéal Fortin | 31,281 | 52.0 | +20.0 | $14,299.86 | |||
| Liberal | Florence Gagnon | 13,402 | 22.3 | -4.1 | $53,916.68 | |||
| Conservative | Sylvie Fréchette | 7,120 | 11.8 | +3.3 | $28,363.50 | |||
| New Democratic | Myriam Ouellette | 4,194 | 7.0 | -23.1 | none listed | |||
| Green | Joey Leckman | 3,345 | 5.6 | +3.1 | $7,366.15 | |||
| People's | Normand Michaud | 407 | 0.7 | – | $45.01 | |||
| Indépendence du Québec | Nicolas Riqueur-Lainé | 225 | 0.4 | – | $117.25 | |||
| Independent | Lucie St-Gelais | 127 | 0.2 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 60,101 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,206 | |||||||
| Turnout | 61,307 | 64.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,813 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | +12.05 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
See also
References
- Buchalter, Bill (7 August 1992). "Babb-sprague wins synchronized gold". Chicago Tribune. USA. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- Bucholtz, Andrew (9 July 2012). "Sylvie Frechette's long wait for the gold she deserved". Yahoo! Sports. USA. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sylvie Fréchette". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- "Oxfam-Quebec in action - Sylvie Fréchette". Oxfam Quebec. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- "Olympic champion Sylvie Fréchette to run for Conservatives in federal election". Montreal Gazette. La Presse Canadienne. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- Blouin, Louis (August 26, 2019). "Olympic champion Sylvie Fréchette to run as Conservative candidate". CBC News. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
- Colpron, Suzanne (2019-10-26). "Scheer a manqué de "couilles", estime Sylvie Fréchette". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
External links
- Sylvie Fréchette at Team Canada
- Sylvie Fréchette at Olympics.com
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame profile Archived 2016-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- International Swimming Hall of Fame profile
- Library and Archives Canada - Sylvie Fréchette
| Olympic Artistic swimming champions – women's solo | |
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- 1967 births
- Canadian sportsperson-politicians
- Canadian synchronized swimmers
- Cirque du Soleil performers
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games medallists in synchronised swimming
- Living people
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic medalists in synchronized swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Olympic synchronized swimmers for Canada
- Pan American Games medalists in synchronized swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Recipients of the Meritorious Service Decoration
- Synchronised swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1986 World Aquatics Championships
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Synchronised swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from Montreal
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen