Manitoba’s Clara Hughes is one of only four people to ever win a medal at both a summer and winter Olympics. Growing up playing hockey and ringette in Winnipeg, she earned a silver medal at the national championships in her first year of speed skating. When the provincial speed-skating program folded, she became a cyclist and won two Olympic bronze medals at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games. After her second Olympic Games in Sydney, she returned to speed skating and won a bronze medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and, in 2006, was awarded a gold and silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Following her medal victories, she generously donated $10,000 to the Right to Play non-profit charity, an organization that uses sports and play programs to help improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the Third World.
