Sylvie Fréchette

Sylvie Fréchette (* June 27, 1967 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian synchronized swimmer.

Fréchette began at the age of eight years in Montreal with the synchronized swimming and was inducted into the Canadian national team in 1983. In 1987, she was silver medalist at the Pan American Games, which was their biggest success up to that point. Her first international title she won at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and a year later she became world champion in Perth.

Shortly before the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, she had to cope with a heavy blow when her fiance took his own life. At the games it came with the judges scoring the compulsory program of Fréchette a scandal. A Brazilian martial judge assessed a figure by 0.4 points too low, but noticed their mistake and reported it by show of hands. This was ignored or overlooked by the other judges. Fréchette was at the end of the competition with 0,251 points behind Kristen Babb - Sprague of the United States, a protest of the Canadian team was dismissed. On intervention by the IOC Executive Board member Richard Pound of Canada, Sylvie Fréchette was subsequently also awarded a gold medal, but the point result remained.

At the games of Atlanta in 1996, she won as a member of the Canadian team silver with the group.

Professionally, she worked for the Canadian National Bank, where he was hired as a spokeswoman.