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Canadian butterfly swimmers

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Audrey Lacroix

Audrey Lacroix, Canadian butterfly swimmer from Pont-Rouig, Quebec (born 1983). Three Olympics (2008, 2012, 2016), record seven World Championships, Pan Am and Commonwealth 200m butterfly gold.

Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson is the name of two Canadian Olympic medalists: swimmer Bruce Richard Robertson (born 1953, Vancouver), 1972 silver and 1973 world 100m butterfly champion, and rower Bruce D. Robertson (born 1962, Calgary), 1992 Olympic eights gold medalist.

Dan Sherry

Dan Sherry (Daniel John Sherry, born 1946), Canadian swimmer for the North York Lions Club; eighth in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic 200 m butterfly, two 1963 Pan Am bronzes, 1965 110-yard butterfly world record. Same name: 1986 Commonwealth Games boxing champion.

Joe Bartoch

Joe Bartoch is a retired Canadian butterfly swimmer from London, Ontario, who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and held the Canadian 100-meter butterfly record.

Marcel Gery

Marcel Gery (Marcel Géry), born 1965 in Smolenice, is a Slovak-Canadian swimmer who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1986, set a short course 50 m butterfly world record in 1990, and won 1992 Olympic bronze in the 4x100 medley relay.

Mary Beth Stewart

Mary Slewart is an OCR spelling variant of Mary Stewart McIlwaine (born 1945, Vancouver), Canadian swimmer, two-time Olympian, twice world 110-yard butterfly record holder, and 1962 Commonwealth Games champion.

Stefan Hirniak

Stefan Hirniak (born 1985) is a Canadian competitive swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle relays, winning 200 m butterfly bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Tom Ponting

Tom Ponting is a Canadian former butterfly swimmer, born in 1965 in Montréal, who medaled at three consecutive Olympics: silver in 1984 and 1988, bronze in 1992.

Wendy Quirk

Wendy Quirk (Wendy Patricia Quirk-Johnson), born 1959 in Montréal, Canadian butterfly and freestyle swimmer; 1976 Olympic finalist, triple 1978 Commonwealth gold medallist, 1978 World bronze medallist, barred from Moscow 1980 by Canada's boycott.