Michelle Toro
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Michelle Williams |
| National team |  Canada |
| Born | January 2, 1991 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb)[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Guillermo Toro (m. 2016) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | High Performance Centre - Ontario[2] |
Medal record | |
Michelle Toro (née Williams; born January 2, 1991) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the freestyle in the sprint distances.[2] She won a gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto in the 4 x 100 m freestyle and in the 4 x 100 m medley relay.[1] She also won a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 4 x 100 m freestyle.
She competed as part of Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics, commonly known as Rio 2016.[3] Williams would help fellow Canadians Taylor Ruck, Chantal van Landeghem and Sandrine Mainville in the women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay heats, with the team swimming the third fastest time. She then had to make way for teenage star Penelope Oleksiak in the final, where Oleksiak helped anchor the team to the bronze medal.[4] In an interview after the event, Williams said "we've come a long way, this group of us. It's our medal and it's our medal for Canada, it's just so amazing."[4]
Personal[]
Williams was born in Pretoria, South Africa and speaks fluent Afrikaans alongside English, she often goes back to South Africa to visit her family in Jeffreys Bay.[1] In December 2016, shortly after the Short Course World Swimming Championships, she married her childhood teammate Guillermo Toro.[5] They met when she was 12 and he was 14 at the North York Aquatic Club and started dating six years later.[5]
See also[]
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References[]
- ^ a b c "Olympic team profile". Olympics Canada. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ a b "Michelle Williams (swimmer)". Swim Canada. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ "Olympic Team Nominated for Rio 2016". Swimming Canada. Swimming Canada. April 10, 2016. Archived from the original on June 26, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ a b "Canada wins bronze in women's 4x100m freestyle relay". CBC Sports. August 7, 2016. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ a b Heroux, Devin (December 11, 2016). "Canadian swimmer Michelle Williams finds her soulmate in the pool". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on December 17, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
External links[]
- Michelle Toro at Swimming Canada
- Michelle Toro at FINA
- Michelle Williams at the Canadian Olympic Committee
- Michelle Williams at Olympics.com
- Michelle Williams at Olympic.org (archived)
- Michelle Williams at Olympedia
- Michelle Williams at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Michelle Williams at the Commonwealth Games Federation
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- Canadian female freestyle swimmers
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- People from Pretoria
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games