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Canada Men's National Artistic Gymnastics Team
The Canada men's national artistic gymnastics team represents Canada in International Federation of Gymnastics, FIG international competitions. History Canada has participated in the Artistic gymnastics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games women's team competition 5 times, finishing as high as seventh place in Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984. The team has also made 3 appearances at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, finishing as high as tenth place. Current roster Team competition results Olympic Games * Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics, 1968 – 16th place *: Barry Brooker, Roger Dion, Sid Jensen, Gilbert Larose, Steve Mitruk * Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 – 7th place *: Warren Long, Allan Reddon, Brad Peters, Frank Nutzenberger, Philippe Chartrand, Daniel Gaudet * Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 – 9th place *: Curtis Hibbert, Brad Peters, Lorne Bobkin, Alan Nolet, James Rozon, Philippe Chartrand * Gymnastics a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics Canada
Gymnastics Canada is the national governing body for the sport of gymnastics in Canada and has its current headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario. It is responsible for the organization and promotion of gymnastics on a nationwide basis. In 1956, a Canadian delegation attended its first world-level International Gymnastics Federation FIG (Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique) competition in Melbourne with only one male gymnast, Ed Gagnier, and one female gymnast, Ernestine Russell. This marked the beginning of Canada's participation in international competitions, signalling an important step towards development of their national team program. In Canada, gymnastics is a part of the Canada Games programme. Gymnastics is said to have been originally practiced in ancient Greek civilization, evolving over time into a more structured form of exercise and recreation. Through running, jumping, swimming, throwing, wrestling and weightlifting exercises, gymnastics promotes physical streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1984 Summer Olympics
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and North Korea. This was the first time in Olympic competition that eight gymnasts were allowed to move onto an apparatus final, instead of the previous six. The USSR and other satellite countries organized an ' Alternate Olympics' where the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and other Soviet Bloc nations competed. Artistic gymnastics Format of competition The artistic gymnastics competition at the 1984 Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakville, Ontario
Oakville is a town in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Hamilton. At its 2021 census population of 213,759, it is Ontario's largest town. Oakville is part of the Greater Toronto Area, one of the most densely populated areas of Canada. History In 1793, Dundas Street was surveyed for a military road. In 1805, the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada bought the lands between Etobicoke and Hamilton from the indigenous Mississaugas people, except for the land at the mouths of Twelve Mile Creek (Bronte Creek), Sixteen Mile Creek, and along the Credit River. In 1807, British immigrants settled the area surrounding Dundas Street as well as on the shore of Lake Ontario. In 1820, the Crown bought the area surrounding the waterways. The area around the creeks, , ceded to the Crown by the Mississaugas, was auctioned off to William Chisholm in 1827. He left the development of the area to his son, Robert Kerr Chisholm, and his bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Kaji
Chris Kaji (born 31 January 2000) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. In 2018, he won the bronze medal in the men's rings event at the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships held in Medellín, Colombia. References External links * Living people 2000 births Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics 21st-century Canadian people Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Canada-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathys Jalbert
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Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Émard
William Émard (born 17 March 2000) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. At the 2021 World Championships, he finished eighth in the all-around final, marking the best result for a Canadian male gymnast in World Championship history. Additionally, he won gold in the vault event of the Mersin event in the 2021 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series. Senior career 2018 Émard joined the senior Canadian national team in 2018. However, his early career was met with adversity in injury form. At the 2018 Pacific Rim Championships he injured himself during warm up and then spent several months in recovery for a knee injury and a labrum tear in the shoulder. 2019–2020 Émard competed at the Paris Challenge Cup in September where he qualified to the event finals on floor exercise, rings, and vault. The following month he competed at the 2019 World Championships where he helped Canada finish 17th as a team during qualifications. Throughout 2019 and 2020 Émard had been suffering f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laval, Quebec
Laval (; ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is in the southwest of the province, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada with a population of 422,993 in 2016. Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval. Laval forms its own administrative region in Quebec which constitutes the 13th region of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec as well as a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) with geographical code 65. It also constitutes the judicial district of Laval. History The first European Settlers in Laval were Jesuits, who were granted a seigneury there in 1636. Agriculture first appeared in Laval in 1670. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Dolci
Félix Dolci (born 5 May 2002) is a Canadian male artistic gymnast. He is the 2019 Junior World Champion on rings. He has been a member of the Canadian national team since 2017. Early life Dolci was born in Saint-Eustache, Québec in 2002. He started gymnastics at the age of 6 at Laval Excellence, a gym in Laval, Québec. His first competition was in 2009 and, up to this day, has won over 200 medals and awards, including sports merits and other honors. His mother suggested he try gymnastics, mainly as a way to release his energy, as sports such as hockey and soccer failed to adequately do that. Dolci speaks both French and English as he resides in the province of Québec. Dolci is coached by Adrian Balan. Junior career 2018 Dolci suffered a shoulder injury at the start of 2018 which made it difficult to do horizontal bar, pommel horse, and parallel bars. Because of this, he was not able to compete his best at the Élite Canada competition in February and ended up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cournoyer
René Cournoyer (born April 23, 1997) is a Canadian artistic gymnast, who has competed internationally since 2014. Career At the 2014 Pan American Youth Gymnastics Championships, Cournoyer qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. At the games, Cournoyer finished in 19th in the all-around, 6th in the vault and 7th in the horizontal bar. Cournoyer was named to his first senior national team for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Cournoyer was part of the silver medal winning team, along with three fourth place finishes in the individual finals (rings, vault and parallel bars). At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Cournoyer won bronze in the team event, while finishing fourth in the individual all-around. At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Cournoyer finished in 43rd in the individual all around, which was high enough to qualify him for the 2020 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilliwack
Chilliwack ( )( hur, Ts'elxwéyeqw) is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Chilliwack is surrounded by mountains and home to recreational areas such as Cultus Lake and Chilliwack Lake Provincial Parks. There are numerous outdoor activities in the area in which to participate, including hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking horseback riding, whitewater kayaking, camping, fishing, golf and paragliding. Chilliwack is known for its annual corn harvest, and is home to the Province's second largest independent bookstorebr>The Book Man The Fraser Valley Regional District is headquartered in Chilliwack, which is the Fraser Valley's second largest city after Abbotsford. The city had a population of 93,203 in the 2021 Canadian census, with a census metropolitan area population of 113,767 people. Etymology In Halq'eméylem, the language of the Stó:lō communities around Chilliwack and Sardis, ''Tcil'Qe'uk'' means "valley of many streams". It also lends its na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
