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Penny Oleksiak

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Penelope Oleksiak, known as Penny and nicknamed Magic Penny, is a Canadian competitive swimmer and one of the most decorated Olympians in her country's history. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she became the first Canadian to win four medals at a single Summer Games and, with her gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle, the youngest Canadian Olympic champion. She added three more medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, reaching seven Olympic medals in total. She has also won medals at the World Aquatics Championships, World Swimming Championships, World Junior Championships and Commonwealth Games, and she was named Canada's top athlete with the 2016 Lou Marsh Trophy. She is serving a competition suspension for an anti-doping rule violation.

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2000 1
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5+ 1
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is a Canadian competitive swimmer
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1. Penny Oleksiak (Wikipedia)
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    born June 13, 2000
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    with seven Olympic medals each
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    is a Canadian competitive swimmer
  • Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, Lead, Olympic results
    Oleksiak rose to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Competed In: 2020 Summer Olympics, Lead, Olympic results
    Five years later she won three additional medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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