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Penny Oleksiak

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Penny Oleksiak
Oleksiak in 2023
Personal information
Full namePenelope Oleksiak
Born (2000-06-13) June 13, 2000 (age 26)[1]
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1][2]
Sport
Country Canada
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubEnergy Standard
Toronto Swim Club, High Performance Centre – Ontario[3]
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 2 3
World Junior Championships 6 4 1
Total 9 10 15
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro100 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tokyo4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place2022 Budapest4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Budapest4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2017 Budapest4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2017 Budapest4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place2019 Gwangju4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2019 Gwangju4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2019 Gwangju4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2022 Budapest4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2022 Budapest4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2016 Windsor4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2016 Windsor4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2016 Windsor4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2024 Budapest4×50 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2016 Windsor100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2024 Budapest4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2024 Budapest4×100 m mixed medley
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2018 Gold Coast4x100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2018 Gold Coast4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2018 Gold Coast4×100 m medley
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Indianapolis 4×100 m 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. She became well known 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.

Career

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Oleksiak was the first athlete born in the 2000s to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.[4]

She won 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.

She won three more medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, breaking the national record for Olympic medals.[5]

In July 2025, Oleksiak was suspended for a short time after the International Testing Agency (ITA) said she did not follow anti-doping rules.[6] She was later banned from competing for two years.[7][8]

Personal life

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Oleksiak was born in Toronto, Ontario to immigrant parents, a Polish American father and a Scottish mother.[9] She is the youngest of five siblings, one of whom is NHL defenceman Jamie Oleksiak.[10] She went to Monarch Park Collegiate Institute, a high school in Toronto.[11]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Penny Oleksiak". Canadian Olympic Team Official Website. April 10, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Spencer, Donna (April 9, 2016). "Teenage star Oleksiak mows down records at Olympic swimming trials". CBC Sports. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Penny Oleksiak". Swim Canada. Retrieved April 9, 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.
  6. ↑ "Penny Oleksiak withdraws from swimming worlds citing whereabouts case with World Aquatics". CBC. July 4, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Penny Oleksiak banned from competition until 2027 after accepting penalty for whereabouts failures". CBC Sports. November 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ "International Testing Agency-The ITA reports that swimmer Penelope Oleksiak accepted a two-year sanction for three whereabouts failures". International Testing Agency. Retrieved November 25, 2025.
  9. ↑ Stars fall, but Oleksiak and Pavelski shine
  10. ↑ Gillespie, Kerry (April 7, 2016). "Canada's Penny Oleksiak makes waves at Olympic swim trials". Toronto Star.
  11. ↑ "Person of interest: Swimming Canada's best-kept secret, Penny Oleksiak". SportsNet. August 9, 2016. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2016.

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