Danielle Goyette
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Olympic medal record | |||
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Gold | 2006 Turin | Team | |
Gold | 2002 Salt Lake City | Team | |
Silver | 1998 Nagano | Team |
Danielle Goyette (born in St-Nazaire, Quebec) is a women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team. She has achieved an amazing amount of success with the women's national team, and in December 2005 in an exhibition game against Sweden, scored her 200th career point with Team Canada.
In 2006, she was selected to carry the Canadian flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She is also one of the alternative captains for the team. Fellow veteran Cassie Campbell is the captain for Turin. And at the age of 40, she is the oldest current member of Team Canada.
Danielle Goyette has won three Olympic medals, gold in both Turin (2006) and Salt Lake City (2002) and a silver medal in Nagano (1998). She has also had a lot of success with Team Canada at the world championships, capturing seven Gold medals as well as one silver.
[edit] World Championships
- 2005 - Linkoping, Sweden - Silver
- 2004 - Halifax, Canada - Gold
- 2001 - Minneapolis, United States - Gold
- 2000 - Mississauga, Canada - Gold
- 1999 - Espoo, Finland - Gold
- 1997 - Kitchener, Canada - Gold
- 1994 - Lake Placid, United States - Gold
- 1992 - Tampere, Finland - Gold
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