Michelle Toro
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| Birth name | Michelle Williams |
| National team |  Canada |
| Born | January 2, 1991 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | High Performance Centre - Ontario[2] |
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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.
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]
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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] On December 17, 2016, shortly after the Short Course World Swimming Championships, she married her childhood teammate Billy 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]
On December 7, 2020, the couple welcomed their first child, Jacob Murray Toro.
As of January 2024, Toro is currently expecting a son.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References
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External links
- Michelle Toro at Swimming Canada
- Michelle Toro at World AquaticsLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Michelle Williams at the Canadian Olympic CommitteeLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Michelle Williams at Olympics.comLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Michelle Williams at Olympic.org (archived)Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Michelle Williams at OlympediaLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Michelle Williams at the Commonwealth Games FederationLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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