Penny Oleksiak

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

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. 

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

Personal life
Oleksiak was born in Toronto, Ontario to immigrant parents, a Polish American father and a  Scottish mother.Stars fall, but Oleksiak and Pavelski shine She is the youngest of five siblings, one of whom is NHL defenceman Jamie Oleksiak. She went to Monarch Park Collegiate Institute, a high school in Toronto.

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Category:2000 births
Category:Living people
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Category:Canadian swimmers
Category:Sportspeople from Toronto
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists