•Bronze Medal Winner - Brent Hayden
Men's 100m Freestyle Swim
Brent Hayden is from Mission, British Columbia. He competed in the 2004 and 2008 summer Olympics, but this is his first Olympic medal. It is also the first time a Canadian has won a medal in the 100m Freestyle Swim at the Olympics.
•Bronze Medal Winners - Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel
Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard Diving
Emilie Heymans, 30, was born in Belgium and lives in St.-Lambert, Quebec. This is her fourth Olympic medal. She is the first female diver in history to win medals in four consecutive Olympic games.
Jennifer Abel is from St.-Lambert, Quebec. She also competed in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, when she was just 16. This is her first Olympic medal.
•Bronze Medal Winner - Carol Huynh
Women's Wrestling 48 kg
Carol Huynh, 31, is from Hazelton, British Columbia. This is her second Olympics. She won a gold medal in the same event in Beijing in 2008. After the Beijing Olympics she took time off to recover from injuries and to finish her degree in counselling psychology. She also started coaching children in wrestling, which renewed her interest in competing. And here she is with a second Olympics medal.
•Bronze Medal Winner - Mark Oldershaw
Men's 1,000m Canoe
From Burlington, Ontario, Mark Oldershaw is a third-generation Olympian. His grandfather Bert Oldershaw competed in three Olympics, his father and coach Scott competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, his uncle Dean in the 1972 Munich Olympics and 1976 Montreal Olympics, and his uncle Reed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The 2012 London Olympics was Mark Oldershaw's second Olympics and he brought home the first Olympic medal for the family.
•Bronze Medal Winner - Antoine Valois-Fortier
Men's Judo - 81 kg Class
Antoine Valois-Fortier, a 22-year-old from Quebec City who lives and trains in Montreal, wasn't expected to win a medal at the London Olympics. His bronze medal was the first Canadian Olympics medal in judo since 2000 when his coach Nicholas Gill won the silver in 2000. Valois-Fortier won five difficult matches in a single day, starting with defeating the 2008 gold medallist Elnur Mammadli of Azerbaijan in his first match. Valois-Fortier's bronze is just the fifth medal that Canada has ever won in judo.
•Bronze Medal Winner - Richard Weinberger
Men's Open-Water 10 km Marathon Swim
On leave from his studies at the University of Victoria, at 22 Richard Weinberger is younger than most of his rivals. He is sweet, hyper and irrepressible. He even talks to his competitors during races. In his first Olympics he came in third for a bronze medal in the open-water marathon in 1:50:00.3, behind Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli (1:49:55.1) and Germany's Thomas Lurz (1:49:58.5). “I want to be the Olympic gold medallist in Rio,” he assured reporters after the race.
•Bronze Medal Winners - Canadian Women's Soccer Team
Christine Sinclair (team captain), Candace Chapman, Robyn Gayle, Laruen Sesselmann, Chelsea Stewart, Rhian Wilkinson, Emily Zurrer, Carmelina Moscato, Kaylyn Kyle, Diana Matheson, Kelly Parker, Sophie Schmidt, Desiree Scott, Jonelle Filigno, Melissa Tancredi, Brittany Timko, Karina LeBlanc, Erin McLeod
The Canadian women's soccer team, which trains in Vancouver, B.C., won their first Olympic medal, a bronze, at the London Olympics in 2012. The United States won gold, and France took the silver. The Canadian's bronze medal was also Canada’s first medal in a traditional team sport at a summer Olympics since the Canadian men’s basketball team won a silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
After a controversial loss to the arch-rival U.S. team in the semi-finals, which left the Canadians under threat of discipline for unguarded remarks about the refereeing, the Canadians were all allowed to play in the bronze medal match against France. In that match Diana Matheson scored in added time for a dramatic 1-0 victory. In a press release, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said “the efforts by captain Christine Sinclair and the rest of the team can only be described as heroic.”
•Bronze Medal Winners - Women's Track Cycling Team Pursuit
Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton, Jasmin Glaesser
In the women's track cycling team pursuit a team of three race over 3 km (3 laps). The London 2012 Olympics was the first Olympics for all three Canadian cyclists. Great Britain won the gold medal and set a world record, the U.S. took the silver, and Canada the bronze. The Canadians' finishing time was three minutes, 17.915 seconds, beating the fourth-place Australian team's time by just 0.181 seconds.
It was the first Olympics for all three cyclists. Tara Whitten, a 32-year old from Edmonton who is working on her Ph.D. in neuroscience, was a world-class cross-country skier before she turned to cycling in 2007. As well as winning a bronze medal in the team pursuit, she just missed the podium, coming in fourth, in the omnium cycling event at the London Olympics. Gillian Carter, 23, from Victoria, managed to recover from breaking her pelvis in November 2011 to be well enough to compete and win a medal in the London Olympics. Twenty-year-old Jasmin Glaesser, who was born in Germany and had lived in Canada for ten years, got her Canadian citizenship in the fall of 2011 so she could represent Canada in the Olympics. She's a student in computer science and math at Simon Fraser university.