Yvette Michel
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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yvette Michel(born 1965) is aCanadianretired Paralympic swimmer. She competed at the 1980 and 1984 Paralympics. Michel is blind, having lost her sight at the age of three,[1]and first competed when she was 14 years old.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^Gasher, Mike (September 21, 1983)."Michel has speed to burn".The Province.p. 58.RetrievedJanuary 30,2020.
- ^Tsumura, Howard (September 3, 1992)."Seeing gold in the pool".The Province.p. B11.RetrievedJanuary 30,2020.
- ^Batt, Diana (July 26, 1980)."Excelling on her own terms".Vancouver Sun.p. 17.RetrievedJanuary 30,2020.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1965 births
- Canadian female backstroke swimmers
- Canadian female freestyle swimmers
- Canadian female breaststroke swimmers
- Canadian female butterfly swimmers
- Canadian female medley swimmers
- Paralympic swimmers for Canada
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers from Vancouver
- Paralympic gold medalists for Canada
- Paralympic silver medalists for Canada
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen