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Gaétan Boucher
Gaétan Boucher training for a race at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, February 1976, by D. Paterson

Canada’s greatest winter Olympian, winner of four Olympic medals, Gaétan Boucher (born 1958) competed as a speed skater in four Olympic Games, the first in 1976, when he was only seventeen. He became a national hero at the Sarajevo Games in 1984 where he won two gold medals and a bronze.


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