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Cindy Klassen

Speed Skating

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 02/3/2010 2:38 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

Canadian speedskater and Olympic gold medalist Cindy Klassen

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Canadian speedskater and Olympic gold medalist Cindy Klassen (JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Hometown: Winnipeg.

Resides: Calgary.

Age: 30.

Olympic appearances: 2 (Turin and Salt Lake City).

Career highlights:

  • Canada’s most-decorated Olympian with six medals: one gold, two silver, two bronze from Turin; bronze in Salt Lake.
  • World all-round champion in 2003, 2006.
  • Named Canada’s top athlete in 2006.
  • Two-time winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s top female athlete (2005, 2006).

Other:

  • Competed at 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg in in-line speed skating.
  • Member of women’s national junior hockey team in 1996.
  • Participated in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in women’s field lacrosse.

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