Gaétan Turcotte

Gaétan Turcotte took up water polo in 1970 and, within three years, had helped Quebec win gold at the 1973 Canada Summer Games. He then moved on to representing all of Canada in 1975, at both the Pan American Games and the World Championships, where his nation came in 4th and 14th respectively. His next stop was the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where Canada was 9th in a field of 12 nations, and he had better luck at the 1979 Pan American Games, where he took home a bronze medal. He was then offered a coaching job and retired from active competition, coaching in both Canada and Australia for almost a decade, before turning to refereeing. His greatest accomplishment in this occupation came when he was an official for the gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.