Sylvie Fréchette, MSC (born 27 June 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.
 Fréchette in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | June 27, 1967 Montreal, Quebec |
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Synchronised swimming |
| Club | Montréal Synchro Inc |
Medal record | |
Career edit
Fréchette competed in the women's solo at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In the technical figures routine, a Brazilian judge accidentally entered a score of 8.7 instead of 9.7, costing her first place;[1] after several appeals by the Canadian Olympic Committee, her medal was upgraded to gold.[2] Kristen Babb-Sprague, the beneficiary of the judge's error, was allowed to keep her gold medal.
Fréchette's success in the pool continued with a silver medal in the women's team event at the following Olympics.[3] In 1999, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. She has also contributed as a swimmer, designer, and coach to the synchronized-swimming portions of Cirque du Soleil's water-based stage production O, which opened in 1998 at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.
In 2006, Fréchette became an ambassador for Oxfam.[4]
Fréchette ran for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election, as the party's candidate in the Quebec riding of Rivière-du-Nord.[5][6] She came in third and, after the election, ascribed her loss to party leader Andrew Scheer's inability to take a stance on abortions.[7]
Personal life edit
Sylvie Frechette was engaged to her business partner Sylvain Lake, who committed suicide a week before the 1992 Games. Lake was a television track analyst and former 400m track athlete.
Electoral record edit
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Rivière-du-Nord | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Rhéal Fortin | 31,281 | 52.0 | +20.0 | $14,299.86 | |||
| Liberal | Florence Gagnon | 13,402 | 22.3 | -4.1 | $53,916.68 | |||
| Conservative | Sylvie Fréchette | 7,120 | 11.8 | +3.3 | $28,363.50 | |||
| New Democratic | Myriam Ouellette | 4,194 | 7.0 | -23.1 | none listed | |||
| Green | Joey Leckman | 3,345 | 5.6 | +3.1 | $7,366.15 | |||
| People's | Normand Michaud | 407 | 0.7 | – | $45.01 | |||
| Indépendence du Québec | Nicolas Riqueur-Lainé | 225 | 0.4 | – | $117.25 | |||
| Independent | Lucie St-Gelais | 127 | 0.2 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 60,101 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,206 | |||||||
| Turnout | 61,307 | 64.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,813 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | +12.05 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Buchalter, Bill (7 August 1992). "Babb-sprague wins synchronized gold". Chicago Tribune. USA. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Bucholtz, Andrew (9 July 2012). "Sylvie Frechette's long wait for the gold she deserved". Yahoo! Sports. USA. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sylvie Fréchette". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Oxfam-Quebec in action - Sylvie Fréchette". Oxfam Quebec. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Olympic champion Sylvie Fréchette to run for Conservatives in federal election". Montreal Gazette. La Presse Canadienne. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ Blouin, Louis (August 26, 2019). "Olympic champion Sylvie Fréchette to run as Conservative candidate". CBC News. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
- ^ "Scheer a manqué de "couilles", estime Sylvie Fréchette". La Presse (in French). 2019-10-26. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 10, 2019.