Rhéaume helped Team Canada win the silver medal in the first-ever Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at Nagano 1998.
On February 17, 1998, Manon Rhéaume and Team Canada completed their run at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, winning the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic women's ice hockey tournament—the first time women's hockey had ever been contested at the Games.
Rhéaume played in three matches as goaltender during the tournament, helping Canada advance through the competition to the gold medal game, where they were narrowly defeated by the United States in a historic final. The inclusion of women's hockey at Nagano represented a watershed moment for the sport, granting it the ultimate global stage and legitimacy it had long sought.
For Rhéaume, competing at the Olympics represented the culmination of a career defined by breaking barriers—from her days as the only girl on boys' youth teams, to her historic appearances in men's professional leagues, and now to the sport's biggest international stage as an Olympian. Her presence on the ice symbolized the arrival of women's hockey as a fully recognized Olympic discipline.
The silver medal remains one of the most significant achievements of her competitive career, a fitting complement to her groundbreaking work in men's professional hockey and a lasting piece of her legacy as one of the sport's most important pioneers.