Michelle Toro (née Williams; born January 2, 1991) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the freestyle in the sprint distances.[2] She won a gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto in the 4 x 100 m freestyle and in the 4 x 100 m medley relay.[1] She also won a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 4 x 100 m freestyle.

Michelle Toro

Personal information
Birth name	Michelle Williams
National team	Canada
Born	(1991-01-02) January 2, 1991 (age 31) Pretoria, South Africa
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)[1]
Spouse(s)	Guillermo Toro ​ (m. 2016)​
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	High Performance Centre - Ontario[2]
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Canada Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle Pan American Games 2015 Toronto 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2016 Windsor 4x50 m freestyle 2016 Windsor 4x50 m mixed free Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m medley

She competed as part of Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics, commonly known as Rio 2016.[3] Williams would help fellow Canadians Taylor Ruck, Chantal van Landeghem and Sandrine Mainville in the women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay heats, with the team swimming the third fastest time. She then had to make way for teenage star Penelope Oleksiak in the final, where Oleksiak helped anchor the team to the bronze medal.[4] In an interview after the event, Williams said "we've come a long way, this group of us. It's our medal and it's our medal for Canada, it's just so amazing."[4]

Personal

Williams was born in Pretoria, South Africa and speaks fluent Afrikaans alongside English, she often goes back to South Africa to visit her family in Jeffreys Bay.[1] In December 2016, shortly after the Short Course World Swimming Championships, she married her childhood teammate Guillermo Toro.[5] They met when she was 12 and he was 14 at the North York Aquatic Club and started dating six years later.[5]

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)

References

External links

• Michelle Toro at Swimming Canada
• Michelle Toro at FINA
• Michelle Williams at the Canadian Olympic Committee
• Michelle Williams at Olympics.com
• Michelle Williams at Olympedia
• Michelle Williams at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Michelle Williams at the Commonwealth Games Federation

На других языках

[es] Michelle Williams (nadadora)

[it] Michelle Williams (nuotatrice)