Canada's athletes of the 20th century
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Canada's Athletes of the 20th century as voted on in a 1999 survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News:
Top 10 Female Athletes
[edit ]- Nancy Greene (born 1943), skier
- Silken Laumann (born 1964), rower
- Barbara Ann Scott (1928–2012), figure skater
- Myriam Bédard (born 1969), biathlon
- Marnie McBean (born 1968), rower
- Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (1904–1969), track-and-field (voted female athlete of the first half of the century)
- Catriona Le May Doan (born 1970), speed skater
- Sandra Post (born 1948), golfer
- Marilyn Bell (born 1937), long-distance swimmer
- Elaine Tanner (born 1951), swimmer
Top 10 Male Athletes
[edit ]- Wayne Gretzky (born 1961), ice hockey player
- Gordie Howe (1928–2016), ice hockey player
- Bobby Orr (born 1948), ice hockey player
- Lionel Conacher (1901–1954), multi-sport athlete (voted male athlete of the first half of the century)
- Maurice Richard (1921–2000), ice hockey player
- Donovan Bailey (born 1967), track-and-field
- Ferguson Jenkins (born 1943), baseball player
- Mario Lemieux (born 1965), ice hockey player
- Larry Walker (born 1966), baseball player
- Gaétan Boucher (born 1958), speed skater
Team of the Century
[edit ]- 1972 Team Canada in ice hockey, defeated the Soviet Union in the first ever series involving NHL players