About Simon Whitfield
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is a Canadian retired Olympic triathlon champion. Whitfield won ten consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles and carried the Canadian national flag during the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Sydney, where he had won his gold medal, and the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, making him one of few Canadian athletes to be honoured twice as Olympic flag bearer. Whitfield won a gold medal in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Whitfield was named to the 2008 Summer Olympics team and won a silver medal while competing at his third consecutive games. In 2017, Whitfeld was awarded the Order of Sport, marking induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
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