Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
- Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century as voted on in a 1999 survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News:
Top 10 Female Athletes
# Nancy Greene (born 1943), skier
# Silken Laumann (born 1964), rower
# Barbara Ann Scott (born 1928), figure skater
# Myriam Bédard (born 1969), biathlon
# Marnie McBean (born 1968), rower
# Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (1904-1969), track-and-field (voted female athlete of the first half of the century)
# Catriona Le May Doan (born 1970), speed skater
# Sandra Post (born 1948), golfer
# Marilyn Bell (born 1937), long distance swimmer
# Elaine Tanner (born 1951), swimmer
Top 10 Male Athletes
# Wayne Gretzky (born 1961), ice hockey player
# Gordie Howe (born 1928), ice hockey player
# Bobby Orr (born 1948), ice hockey player
# Lionel Conacher (1901–-1954), multi-sport athlete (voted male athlete of the first half of the century)
# Maurice Richard (1921–-2000), ice hockey player
# Donovan Bailey (born 1967), track-and-field
# Ferguson Jenkins (born 1943), baseball player
# Mario Lemieux (born 1965), ice hockey player
# Larry Walker (born 1966), baseball player
# Gaétan Boucher (born 1958), speed skater
Team of the Century
* 1972 Team Canada in ice hockey — defeated the Soviet Union in the first ever series involving NHL players
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