Oakville Beaver, p. 13

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13 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,July 29,2021 insidehalton.com • Hamilton's Ray Lewis won bronze as a member of the 4x400m relay team at Los Angeles 1932. The grandson of escaped slaves was the first Canadian-born Black athlete to win an Olympic medal. • Canada's gold medalist swimmers Alex Baumann and Victor Davis were among the Canadian swimmers with a red maple leaf tattoo on their chest. At the 1984 games in Los Angeles, they were our first swimmers to win Olympic gold since 1912. • At the age of 38, Lori-Ann Muenzer became the first Canadian cyclist to win a gold medal at the 2004 games in Athens. She won on wheels borrowed from the French and Australian teams after both of her bike tires had blown. • Rower Silken Laumann came back from a training accident that resulted in a horrific leg injury to win bronze in 1992 and silver in 1996. The win brought her lifetime Olympic medal total to three. • The steeplechase is a 3,000-meter obstacle race based on an 18th centu- ry equine event, with 28 fixed barriers, or hurdles, and seven water pits. • Sammy Luftspring, a Jewish Canadian boxer didn't compete in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in protest of the Nazi regime's treatment of Jews. Luftspring, whose boxing shorts fea- tured the Star of David, turned profes- sional in 1936 and won the Canadian Welterweight Championship in 1938, a title he held for two years. He was blinded in one eye during a fight, end- ing his career and moving him into refereeing. TOKYO2020Salute to theSummer Games Trivia Olympic Lori-Ann Muenzer Silken Laumann Boxer Sammy Luftspring - Torstar file photos I N T H E N I AGARA REG ION R E G I S T E R N O W A T *Prices, sizes and specifications are subject to changewithout notice. Renderings are artist's concept. E.&O.E. M A R Z H O M E S P R E S E N T S OPENING AUGUST 2021! B U N G A L O W - B U N G A L O F T - 2 - S T O R E Y 1 km walk to the beach Coastal Inspired Single Family Homes from the $700's to low $1M's BY A P PO I N TMEN T ON LY marzhomes.com/beachwalk/

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