Jaclyn Stelmaszyk
Appearance
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Birth name | Jaclyn Halko | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canada Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Toronto, Ontario | December 16, 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | University of Western Ontario[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jaclyn Stelmaszyk (née Halko; born December 16, 1986) is a world champion Polish Canadian rower. She won gold in the lightweight women's quad sculls at the 2012 World Rowing Championships as a competitor for Poland. Stelmaszyk returned to the Canadian team and is the reigning Pan American Games Champion, winning gold in the lightweight women's double sculls with Kate Haber at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima. In December 2019 Jaclyn was granted an exemption to the three year rule by the Olympic executive board to change nationalities from Canada to Poland. She immediately began training with the Polish Rowing Federation (PZTW) in hopes of qualifying a lightweight double boat for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jaclyn Halko profile". Western Mustangs. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ^ "Canadian women's water polo team locks up Tokyo Olympic berth". CBC Sports. Canadian Press. August 9, 2019.
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Canadian female rowers
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
- Rowers at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Rowers from Toronto
- Pan American Games medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Poland
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Canadian rowing biography stubs