Winners: Kyle Shewfelt, Artistic Gymnastics
Kyle Shewfelt performing his Gold medal winning floor routine at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: August 22, 2004
Collection: CP photo/Adrian Wyld
2004 - Feature Story
Calgary gymnast Kyle Shewfelt ended his Olympic floor routine receiving the highest score in the competition at 9.787 points. Unfortunately Shewfelt had company as Romania’s Marian Dragulescu also earned the same score for his performance. Judges were forced to implement Olympic tiebreak rules to determine the winner of the men’s floor event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with 22-year-old Shewfelt emerging the winner, becoming the first Canadian to win Olympic Gold in artistic gymnastics. He went to Athens as a medal contender after winning Bronze medals in the floor and vault events at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California. He fulfilled his potential, winning Canada’s first Gold medal of the 2004 Games. A day later, Shewfelt finished fourth in the vault with a performance observers believed worthy of a Bronze medal, but the result stood despite protests by Canadian officials.
Career Highlights
- 2006 Bronze medal in gymnastics floor exercise at the World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark
- 2006 Gold medals in team gymnastics and vault at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2004 Lionel Conacher Award (Canada’s male athlete of the year)
- 2004 Gold medal in gymnastics floor exercise at the Olympic Games in Athens
- 2003 Double Bronze medallist in the floor and vault at the World Championships in Anaheim, California.
Kyle Shewfelt shows off the Gold medal he won in the artistic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: August 22, 2004
Collection: CP photo/Adrian Wyld
Kyle Shewfelt stands on the podium after winning the Gold medal in the artistic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: August 22, 2004
Collection: CP Photo/COC/ Andre Forget
Shoes worn by Kyle Shewfelt when he won the Gold medal in the artistic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: 2004
Collection: Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
Shorts worn by Kyle Shewfelt when he won the Gold medal in the artistic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: 2004
Collection: Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
Tunic worn by Kyle Shewfelt when he won the Gold medal in the artistic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Date: 2004
Collection: Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
