Kathleen Heddle

Kathleen Heddle was a Canadian rower, born in Trail, British Columbia, in 1965, who with her long-time partner Marnie McBean became one of the first Canadians to win three Olympic gold medals at the Summer Games. She took up rowing at the University of British Columbia, won gold at the 1991 World Championships in the straight pair and the eight, then won both events at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and after a year away and a switch to sculling won the double sculls gold at Atlanta in 1996, adding a bronze in the quadruple sculls. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and died in Vancouver in January 2021.