Won the women's 800m wheelchair demonstration race at the Athens 2004 Olympics, becoming the only Canadian to win gold at Olympics, Paralympics, and Commonwealth Games.
On September 19, 2004, Chantal Petitclerc won the women's 800m wheelchair race, held as a demonstration event at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. This victory earned her an Olympic gold medal, a rare and historic achievement for a Paralympic athlete.
With this win, Petitclerc became the only Canadian athlete to have won gold medals at the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games, and the Commonwealth Games — an extraordinary trifecta that speaks to her unmatched versatility and dominance across multiple major international sporting stages.
Although wheelchair events at the Olympics were (and remain) demonstration events rather than full medal events, Petitclerc's victory carried enormous symbolic weight. It highlighted the incredible athletic caliber of Paralympic athletes and contributed to ongoing conversations about greater inclusion of disability sport within the Olympic program. Her achievement remains a landmark moment in the history of parasport visibility on the world's biggest sporting stage.