Carolyn Waldo

Carolyn Waldo ( born December 11, 1964 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian synchronized swimmer. She won three Olympic medals.

Waldo began 11 years ago with the synchronized swimming and was inducted into the Canadian national team in 1980. In 1982, she won the Canadian team their first world title, the year after the team won at the Pan American Games. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles synchronized swimming was for the first time on the Olympic program, but only the individual classification and the duet. Carolyn Waldo competed in the individual competition and won silver behind the U.S. American Tracie Ruiz.

From 1985, Carolyn Waldo joined in a duet with Michelle Cameron, the Fina Cup 1985 Waldo won the solo competition, the duet with Cameron and the team classification with the Canadian team. This triple success Waldo could repeat the following year at the World Championships in Madrid. In the Commonwealth Games 1986, she won the duet with Cameron, in individual young Sylvie Fréchette started for Canada and also won. But for the time being remained Carolyn Waldo the strongest Canadian woman who was successful in the Panpazifischen Games and the World Cup in 1987. The greatest success of her career Waldo developed at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, after they had already carried the Canadian flag at the opening ceremony. On September 30, she won the singles competition well ahead of defending champion Tracie Ruiz, on October 1, she won along with Michelle Cameron just before the U.S. Josephson sisters. Waldo became the first Canadian ever to win two Olympic gold medals.

Waldo was quite popular even before the Olympic Games in Canada, the two-time Olympic gold medal just days after the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson had to return his gold medal for doping, she did become a national heroine. Carolyn Waldo won the 1988 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Sports Personality of the Year. She stepped back from active competition in 1988, but has since then as a sports presenter on Canadian television presence. Waldo is Officer in the Order of Canada and since 1994 a member of the Hall of Fame in swimming ( ISHOF ).