Rhéaume helped Team Canada win gold at the 1992 IIHF Women's World Championship in Tampere, Finland.
On April 25, 1992, Manon Rhéaume and Team Canada claimed the gold medal at the IIHF Women's World Championship held in Tampere, Finland. As one of the squad's goaltenders, Rhéaume played a key role in Canada's dominance during the early years of internationally sanctioned women's ice hockey competition.
This was an era when women's hockey was still fighting for legitimacy and recognition on the world sporting stage; the IIHF Women's World Championship, first held in 1990, was among the first official international tournaments for women in the sport. Canada's victory helped establish the country as the dominant global power in women's hockey, a status it would maintain for decades.
For Rhéaume personally, this gold medal came the same year she would go on to break into professional men's hockey, illustrating the breadth of her talent across both women's international competition and men's professional leagues. Her performances at this tournament helped raise the profile of women's hockey and provided a springboard for her subsequent trailblazing efforts in mixed-gender professional contexts.
The victory remains a milestone in the early institutional history of women's international ice hockey and in Rhéaume's own storied career.