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Ruky Abdulai
Hailing from Coquitlam, B.C., Ruky Abdulai has won the B.C. premium award for best female track and field athlete for 2009, and has been recognized as being the most accomplished...
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Ohenewa Akuffo
Ohenewa Akuffo, a Brampton, Ontario native has been competing in Olympic Style wrestling for 16 years and attended the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing where she placed 10th in the World.
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Rowan Barrett
Rowan Barrett played basketball internationally for 17 years (12 years of this was professional basketball). He has accomplished much, including winning a gold medal at the 1994...
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Jeff Bean
Jeff's 11 years on the Canadian National Freestyle Ski Team (Aerials) were filled with highlights, including spots on the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Canadian Olympic teams, a fourth place...
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Fiona Smith-Bell
Fiona Smith-Bell won a silver medal as a member of the women's ice hockey team at the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games. In addition to her Olympic Games medal, she holds two World...
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Karen Blachford
Karen Blachford from Kingston, ON has had many successes in her sport of Wheelchair Curling. She is a gold medallist from the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games and a 3-time gold medallist...
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Mark Boswell
Mark was born in Mandeville, Jamaica where the Boswell family was actively involved in track and field sports. Mark began high jumping after moving to Canada in 1988. After attending...
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Jennifer Botterill
Jennifer was the youngest member of the 1998 Canadian Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team bringing home the silver medal. At the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Jennifer earned...
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Shelley-Ann Brown
Shelley-Ann is a Pickering, Ontario native and is currently spending most of her time in Calgary training. She has been competing in Bobsleigh for two years and holds five world...
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Richard Dalton
Richard Dalton competed for Canada at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games in canoe. The Haligonian has won two World Championship bronze medals, and aims to win more medals...
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Alex Duckworth
Snowboarder Alex Duckworth is a National Champion and Junior World silver medallist. The energetic Nova Scotian hopes to compete or Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic...
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Josh Dueck
After pursuing his dream of being a professional skier Josh Dueck redirected his focus towards the next generation of ski superstars. As a competitive skier turned coach Josh was...
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Wayne Fernandes
Currently residing in Vancouver, BC, Wayne Fernandes has been competing in Field Hockey for over thirteen years. Through sport, Wayne has learned the value of teamwork, and it has...
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Scott Frandsen
Scott Frandsen is a two-time Olympian and three-time Collegiate National Champion Rower from British Columbia. Scott has won three world cup gold medals, and a silver medal in the...
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Jared Funk
Jared has competed in wheelchair rugby for 10 years. He has won two Paralympic Games medals - a silver in Athens 2004 and a bronze in Beijing 2008. He also won a silver medal at the...
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Kara Grant
Kara Grant is an Olympian from Prince Edward Island who specialized in Modern Pentathlon for 12 years. She represented Canada at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. Kara also took home...
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Buddy Green
At the young age of fourteen, Buddy Green ranked 1st in Canada for the 1500 metre freestyle. He repeated the feat just one year later at the age of fifteen. Buddy has competed in...
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John Hastings
John has been competing in Canoe/Kayak - Slalom for 10 years. His sporting career has seen many successes including a 1st place finish at the 2008 National Championships and winning...
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Jayna Hefford
Jayna returned from each Olympic Games she attended with a medal around her neck - silver from the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games, gold from the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic...
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Kelsie Hendry
Kelsie Hendry competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the pole vault event. The 2007 Canadian champion's favourite career memory was walking into the Beijing National Stadium...
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Andrea Holmes
Vancouver's Andrea Holmes is a Paralympian. She represented Canada in athletics from 2002 to 2007, and currently competes as a member of BC's Disabled Ski Team.
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Benoît Huot
Benoît Huot's athletic dreams came true when he participated in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. He has since competed in swimming events at three...
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Rachel Jonat
Rachel Jonat (nee Dunnet) successfully represented Canada at the 2003 World Rowing Championships, bringing home a bronze medal in the women's 8+ event.
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Ravi Kahlon
Ravi Kahlon competed at the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian men's field hockey team. A 2003 Pan American Games silver medallist, Kahlon was born...
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Sylvia Kerfoot
Sylvia Kerfoot has been a member of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team (moguls) for the past 12 years. The 2008 World Cup silver medallist and Vancouverite aims to compete...
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Anne-Marie Lefrançois
Alpine skier Anne-Marie Lefrançois competed at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games. She was a two-time Canadian champion and competed for 17 years.
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Brady Leman
Calgary's Brady Leman was the top ranked rookie for the 2008/2009 Ski Cross World Cup season. Brady placed 16th at the World Freestyle Ski Championships...
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Michael Lewis
Victoria's Michael Lewis has been a competitive rower for over eight years. He has achieved much: a gold medal in the U23 World Championship, two silver medals in...
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Crispin Lipscomb
Crispin dreams of gold. The two-time Canadian Champion placed eleventh in the snowboard halfpipe event at the 2006 Olympic Games and is hoping to clinch his gold at...
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Sandra Lizé
Sandra Lizé was a member of the Canadian women's water polo team that finished fifth at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She has won 21 national titles, a 2001 World...
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Dominique Maltais
Dominique is an accomplished snowboarder from Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec. She captured the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in...
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Marie-Eve Marleau
Marie-Eve of Montreal has had a wonderful athletic career. She started out as a high-level gymnast and after 10 years in the sport decided to cross over to diving.
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Meaghan Mikkelson
Meaghan Mikkelson is enjoying her second season as a member of the national women's ice hockey team. She dreams of representing Canada and winning gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic...
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Nathaniel Miller
Nathaniel Miller has been playing water polo for 18 years with 14 years of this being with the National program. He has won three bronze medals at the Pan Am games, placed 1st at...
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Jill Officer
Jill has been competing in curling for 23 years and has won many competitions. She is a 2008 Women's World Champion, a three-time Canadian Champion and also a seven-time Provincial...
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Cheryl Pounder
Cheryl Pounder has had a successful hockey career. Her team won the gold medal at both the 2002 & 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Her other achievements include five gold medals...
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Jonathan Redman
B.C. snowboarder Jonathan Redman has been competing for four years. For the past two, Jon has finished 2nd place provincially in the half-pipe and slopestyle.
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Kimberly Ribble-Orr
Kimberly Ribble-Orr was a 2000 Olympic Games team member in the sport of judo. She was dominant on the international judo scene and currently hopes to begin training again.
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Kristi Richards
Kristi is a BC native, and has been competing in Freestyle Skiing - Moguls for 12 years. Kristi placed 7th at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino.
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Lisa Ross
Lisa Ross competed at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games in the Yngling event and at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the Laser radial event.
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Andrew Russell
Nova Scotia's Andrew Russell has competed on the National Sprint Canoe team for the last four years. Andrew won a silver medal at the Senior World Championships in 2006 and...
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Darda Sales
Darda competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Paralympic Games in her sport of swimming. She won the gold medal in Sydney 2000 and was a silver medallist in Athens 2004.
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Sandra Sassine
Sandra has been competing in fencing for 24 years and has had many accomplishments in her sport. She is a 7-time Canadian National Champion and she hopes to win an eighth...
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Jay Hugh Smith
In 2008, Hugh Smith competed in Beijing with Team Canada in "Good Luck Beijing", a preparation competition for the Olympic Games.
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Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics won a gold medal in women's ice hockey at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 and 2006. In addition to her past Olympic Games successes, she is a World Champion...
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Brad Spence
A member of Canada's National Alpine Ski Team since 2001, Brad Spence's dream is to attain a podium finish for Canada in Alpine Skiing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Milaine (Mylene) Thériault
Milaine Thériault, a St. Quentin, NB native and currently residing in Canmore, AB has a 16-year career in Cross-Country Skiing. She participated in three Olympic Winter Games...
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Lyne Tremblay
Lyne is a two-time Canadian Champion in Paralympic archery and qualified for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games only after having started her sport seven months earlier.
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Dominique Valleé
Snowboarder Dominique Valleé has been a member of the Canadian Snowboard team since 1999. This Montreal native competed at the Olympic Games level in Torino...
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Chris Wong
Freestyle skier Chris Wong from Vancouver competed at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games and finished in 14th place. He hopes to return to compete in his hometown in 2010...
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As part of our commitment to help create a better Canada, RBC sponsors amateur sport, from grassroots programs in local communities to national sport associations that support the development of amateur athletes who compete at home and abroad. As a long standing supporter of the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Teams, RBC continues its sponsorship through the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and is proud to help showcase Olympic and Paralympic sport as presenting partner of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays.
RBC is also a premier sponsor of Hockey Canada, the Canadian Snowboard Team, the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team, Athletics Canada and the Canadian Paralympic Committee.