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Olympic Games: By the numbers

2016 Olympic Games –

The 2016 Rio Olympic Games was an historic event for Canadian swimmers. Take a look at some of the numbers that made these games one to remember.

6 – Medals for Canada in swimming: 1 gold, 1 silver, and 4 bronze

5 – Medals earned in the previous 4 Olympics by Canadian swimmers

14 – Canadian Records broken in the pool

4 – Medals for Penny Oleksiak, making her the most decorated athlete in a single summer Olympic Games

1 – Olympic Record: Oleksiak’s 52.70 100-m freestyle

21 – Average age of Canadian medalist swimmers

5 – Canada’s rank for total medals in the pool

15 – Finals swims. A 114 percent increase from the 7 in 2012, the greatest increase of any nation

2000 – Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck became the first Olympic medallist born since the turn of the century

55 – Percent of the Canadian women’s team to earn a medal

24 – Years since Canada’s previous swimming gold medal

16 – Years between Team Canada’s oldest swimmer, Audrey Lacroix, and youngest swimmer Penny Oleksiak

48000 – New Twitter followers for Penny Oleksiak. She had 750 before the games

5348 – Penny puns made throughout the Games

14 – Days until the Paralympic Games