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posted by matanmedia2 on Jan 20

Canada has produced a number of fantastic athletes over the years. With its wide open expanses and good natural climate, it is a natural breeding ground for champions. Canada is strongest at hockey and thus it should be no surprise that it has contributed some of the greatest to have ever strapped on a skate, but it has also produced some world beaters in sports such as basketball and baseball.

Without any doubt, the greatest Canadian athlete of all time is Wayne Gretzky. It is no coincidence that he is called The Greatest. Gretzky was an ice-hockey god and successfully transformed from child prodigy to Stanley Cup champion. He played for the Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings, St Louis Blues, New York Rangers and along the way won four Stanley Cups all in a period between 1984 and 1988.

Super Mario is the nickname of Mario Lemieux. He was a champion player for 20 plus-years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He won three Stanley Cups with the team and broke just about every record there is to break. He is a proud Canadian and was a member of the hockey team which won gold at the 2002 Olympics.

Speaking of the Olympics, Simon Whitfield won gold at the Sydney Olympics in the triathlon. He followed this up with silver in Beijing. This makes Whitfield the most successful triathlon at the Olympics. He is in good enough condition to contend at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Canada is a proud Olympic nation. It has only missed two Summer Olympics and hosted the games in 1976. It also hosted the Winter Olympics in 1988 and will do so again in 2010. Canada has had most success in Athletics where it has won 13 gold medals but it has also done well with rowing and swimming. Track though is where it has been most prominent.

Donovan Bailey won Olympic gold in the men’s 100m in 1996. This was a huge deal for Canada after the Ben Johnson scandal in 1988. Johnson won the 100m in world record time but he was stripped of both the medal and the record due to a drugs scandal. It now turns out that just about every in the race was on drugs of some sort.

Steve Nash would be the greatest basketball that Canada has ever produced. He has been a star for both the Suns and Mavericks where he was the MVP in 2005 and again the year later in 2006. He led a good Canada team at the Sydney Olympics but they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by France. They haven’t been back since for another Olympics.

Baseball may be Americas’s pastime, but the neighbour up north has contributed its fair share of great players. Jason Bay was the rookie of the year in 2004 while Justin Morneau was the MVP in 2006. Led by these two, Canada actually defeated the USA at the 2006 World Baseball Classic. This made huge news at the time and was considered a huge scandal in the States.

Stuart Grayson is a freelance writer and a Canadian native who covers news and events in the Canadian Bingo scene. He is an authority in the gaming sector and is writes regularly on topics such as Cash Bingo at 241bingo.com.