Penny Oleksiak is now officially one of Canada’s most decorated Olympians of all-time.
Canada’s Penny Oleksiak competes in the final of the women’s 200m freestyle swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on July 28, 2021. She now shares that line in the history books with speedskating standouts Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen.
Penny became a household name across Canada as the breakout star of the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil, returning from Rio with four medals in her suitcase — two individual and two in relay.Kayla Sanchez, Margaret Mac Neil, Rebecca Smith and Penny Oleksiak of Team Canada pose after winning the silver medal in the Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final.“If you know me, you know I’m going to be good for the Olympics,” she told CBC prior to her departure for Japan.
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