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Description found in Archives
Title
Online (1)
Arrangement structure
Bilingual equivalent
Date(s)
Feb. 1976
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Item consists of a portrait of Gaétan Boucher training for a race at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympic Games.
Conditions of access
Nil
Colour transparency PA-209765
Copy negative PA-209765
TCS 00912
Terms of use
Restrictions on use: Photos to be used for commercial advertising purposes must be cleared with the amateur sport federation concerned.
Copyright: Library and Archives Canada
Credit: D. Paterson / Library and Archives Canada / PA-209765
Additional name(s)
Photographer:
Paterson, David C.
Boucher, Gaétan, b. 1958.
Biography / Administrative history
Canada's greatest winter Olympian, winner of four Olympic medals, Gaétan Boucher (born 1958) competed as a speed skater in four Olympic Games, the first in 1976, when he was only seventeen. He became a national hero at the Sarajevo Games in 1984 where he won two gold medals and a bronze.
Additional information
Speed skater and four-time Olympic medalist Gaétan Boucher earned the Canadian record for most medals won at a single Olympics when he won three at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo. This record was not surpassed until 2006. Here, Boucher is photographed training for the 1976 Innsbruck Olympic Games.
Series title
2. K76-00105, no 1
Exhibitions note
A reproduction of this photograph was shown as part of : Portraits in the street: Vancouver 2010. Curator: Carolyn Cook, Portrait Gallery of Canada/ Library and Archives Canada, Railspur Alley, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C. 2010.01.28- 2010.03.22.
Subject heading
Olympic Games.
Source
Government
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
3195246
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