Sylvie Fréchette

Sylvie Fréchette, MSC (born 27 June 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.

Sylvie Fréchette
MSC

Fréchette in 2012
Personal information
Born	(1967-06-27) June 27, 1967 (age 57) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Synchronised swimming
Club	Montréal Synchro Inc
Medal record Synchronised swimming Representing  Canada Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Women's solo 1996 Atlanta Women's team World Aquatics Championships 1991 Perth Women's solo 1986 Madrid Women's team Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh Women's solo 1990 Auckland Women's solo Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Women's solo

Career

Fréchette competed in the women's solo at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In the technical figures routine, a Brazilian judge accidentally entered a score of 8.7 instead of 9.7, costing her first place;^[1] after several appeals by the Canadian Olympic Committee, her medal was upgraded to gold.^[2] Kristen Babb-Sprague, the beneficiary of the judge's error, was allowed to keep her gold medal.

Fréchette's success in the pool continued with a silver medal in the women's team event at the following Olympics.^[3] In 1999, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. She has also contributed as a swimmer, designer, and coach to the synchronized-swimming portions of Cirque du Soleil's water-based stage production O, which opened in 1998 at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

In 2006, Fréchette became an ambassador for Oxfam.^[4]

Fréchette ran for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election, as the party's candidate in the Quebec riding of Rivière-du-Nord.^[5][6] She came in third and, after the election, ascribed her loss to party leader Andrew Scheer's inability to take a stance on abortions.^[7]

Personal life

Sylvie Frechette was engaged to her business partner Sylvain Lake, who committed suicide a week before the 1992 Games. Lake was a television track analyst and former 400 m track athlete.

Electoral record

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Rivière-du-Nord
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Rhéal Fortin	31,281	52.0	+20.0	$14,299.86
	Liberal	Florence Gagnon	13,402	22.3	-4.1	$53,916.68
	Conservative	Sylvie Fréchette	7,120	11.8	+3.3	$28,363.50
	New Democratic	Myriam Ouellette	4,194	7.0	-23.1	none listed
	Green	Joey Leckman	3,345	5.6	+3.1	$7,366.15
	People's	Normand Michaud	407	0.7	–	$45.01
	Indépendence du Québec	Nicolas Riqueur-Lainé	225	0.4	–	$117.25
	Independent	Lucie St-Gelais	127	0.2	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			60,101	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,206
Turnout			61,307	64.0
Eligible voters			95,813
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+12.05
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame