Jaclyn Stelmaszyk
 Stelmaszyk in 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Jaclyn Halko | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Canada  Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 16, 1986 Toronto, Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. Halko 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 American Games in Lima. In December 2019, Jaclyn was granted an exemption[2] 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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jaclyn Halko profile". Western Mustangs. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ^ "Change of nationality". Olympic news. January 8, 2020.
- ^ "Canadian women's water polo team locks up Tokyo Olympic berth". CBC Sports. Canadian Press. August 9, 2019.
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Canadian female rowers
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in rowing
- Rowers at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Rowers from Toronto
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Poland
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen
- Western Mustangs players
- Canadian rowing biography stubs