Decorated ice dance duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and mixed martial arts star Georges St-Pierre were among the 2023 inductees named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Randy Ferbey's curling team, wheelchair basketball player Danielle Peers and softball player Phyllis Bomberry will also be inducted as athletes, with judo coach Hiroshi Nakamura and lacrosse pioneer Oren Lyons joining them as builders.
Ice dancers Virtue of London, Ont., and Moir of Ilderton, Ont., won two Olympic gold medals and one silver as well as three world titles during their career. “We put as much time into our craft as any baseball, football or basketball player,” he said, adding that he believes his team was the first to quit their full-time jobs to focus on curling.
Bomberry, who is a posthumous induction, was an Indigenous softball catcher from Cayuga, Ont. She played for Toronto's Carpetland Senior A team, and helped the club win a pair of national championships. Nakamura is a longtime judo coach in Canada who guided Nicolas Gill to an Olympic bronze medal in 1992 and a silver in 2000.
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