Penny Oleksiak

Penny Oleksiak
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Oleksiak in 2023
Personal information
Full namePenelope Oleksiak
National team Canada
Born (2000-06-13) June 13, 2000 (age 24)[2]
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2][3]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubEnergy Standard
Toronto Swim Club, High Performance Centre – Ontario[1]
CoachBill O'Toole, Ben Titley, Ryan Mallette, Jeff Julian
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Canada
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 2 4
World Championships (LC) 0 2 7
World Championships (SC) 2 1 1
World Junior Championships 6 4 1
Total 9 9 13
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Gwangju 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2016 Windsor 4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Windsor 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2016 Windsor 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Windsor 100 m freestyle
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 4x100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 4x200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 4x100 m medley
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore 4 × 100 m mixed free
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4 × 200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4 × 100m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4 × 100m medley
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4 × 100m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4 × 100m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore 50 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore 100 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore 4 × 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Singapore 4 × 100 m freestyle

Penelope Oleksiak (born June 13, 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. Nicknamed "Magic Penny", she is one of her country's most decorated Olympians. Oleksiak rose to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Games, and the country's youngest Olympic champion with her gold medal win in the 100 m freestyle. She was the first athlete born in the 2000s to claim an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.[4] Her success led to her being awarded the 2016 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete, the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's top female athlete for 2016, and a member of the Canadian Press team of the year. Five years later she won three additional medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, breaking the national record for Olympic medals;[5] joined in 2024 by sprinter Andre De Grasse, with seven Olympic medals each.

Widely considered the face of a resurgent Canadian women's swimming team in the 2010s, Oleksiak is also Canada's most decorated athlete at the World Aquatics Championships and a multi-medallist at the World Swimming Championships, World Junior Championships, and Commonwealth Games. She is the current junior world and Canadian record holder in the 100 m freestyle, and formerly held the world junior and Canadian records in the 100 m butterfly, as well as the Olympic record in the 100 m freestyle alongside Simone Manuel.

  1. ^ "Penny Oleksiak". Swim Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Penny Oleksiak". Canadian Olympic Team Official Website. April 10, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  3. ^ Spencer, Donna (April 9, 2016). "Teenage star Oleksiak mows down records at Olympic swimming trials". CBC Sports. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  4. ^ "Rio 2016: Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak make Olympic history with 100 metres freestyle gold". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. August 12, 2016.
  5. ^ "Penny Oleksiak wins 7th medal, becomes Canada's most decorated Olympian". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved August 1, 2021.