Trampoline gymnast Rosie MacLennan of King City, Ontario, captured Canada's only gold medal of the London 2012 games -- and a nation's hearts. (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
Our Olympic Medallists
As we bid adieu to London, we salute all of our Canadian athletes who sacrificed and trained to represent the red and white on the world stage. We equalled our Beijing medal count with 18 medals and look forward to more success in four years. Would we have liked to win more medals? Sure. But that makes us no less proud of our 2012 Canadian Olympic medal winners. Until Rio ...
Trampoline gymnast Rosie MacLennan of King City, Ontario, captured Canada's only gold medal of the London 2012 games -- and a nation's hearts. (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
The Canadian men's eight crew of Gabriel Bergen, Douglas Csima, Rob Gibson, Conlin Mccabe, Malcolm Howard, Andrew Byrnes, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers and cox Brian Price rowed to a silver medal victory on the Eton Dorney course. (COC Handout photo/Jason Ransom)
Victoria simmer Ryan Cochrane claimed silver in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle while setting a new Canadian record (14:39.63). (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
Eight years after winning a silver medal in Athens, Canadian wrestler Tonya Verbeek was back on the podium to claim silver in women's 55 kg freestyle in London. She won a bronze medal in Beijing. (COC Handout photo)
Jennifer Abel and Emilie Heymans won Canadian first medal of the London 2012 games, a bronze medal in women's 3-metre synchronized diving. (COC photo by Sean Kilpatrick)
Christine Girard of White Rock, B.C., became the first Canadian to medal in weightlifting, capturing bronze in the women's 63 kg class. (COC Handout photo/Jason Ransom)
Swimmer Brent Hayden made his final Olympic appearance count, the Mission, B.C. native capturing bronze in the men's 100-metre freestyle. (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
Cyclists Gillian Carleton, Jasmin Glaesser and Tara Whitten captured bronze in women's team pursuit, narrowly edging Australia in an exciting finish at the Olympic Velodrome. (COC Handout photo/Jason Ransom)
Derek Drouin of Corunna, Ontario, captured Canada's only track and field medal of the London 2012 Olympics — a bronze in men's high jump. It was Canada's first high jump medal since 1976. (COC Handout photo/Jason Ransom)
Mark Oldershaw, a native of Burlington, Ontario and third generation Olympian, became the first member of his family to medal, capturing bronze in the men's C1 1,000 metres. Oldershaw's father Scott competed in 1984 in Los Angeles while his grandfather Bert competed in the London games back in 1948. (COC Handout photo/Jason Ransom)
A late goal from Diana Matheson lifted the gutsy Canadian women's soccer team, led by captain Christine Sinclair, to a bronze medal. (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
Wrestler Carol Huynh of Hazelton, B.C. added to her Olympic medal collection (she won gold in Beijing) with a bronze medal in the women's 48 kg freestyle event. (COC Handout photo/Mike Ridewood)
He only took up open water swimming three years ago and yet, there he is on the podium. Congrats to Richard Weinberger of Victoria, who claimed bronze in the 10 km swim marathon. (Swimming Canada photo)
We just had to get one more medal in canoe/kayak. We're Canada, eh? It was Mark de Jonge who brought it home, claiming bronze in the men's K1 200 metre. (COC Handout photo)
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