Which Canadian won Olympic men's floor exercise gold in 2004?

Kyle Shewfelt won Olympic men’s floor exercise gold for Canada at the 2004 Athens Games. His final score was 9.787, ahead of Romania’s Marian Drăgulescu and Bulgaria’s Yordan Yovchev.

The victory was historic for Canada: it was the country’s first Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics and its first gold medal of the 2004 Olympics. Shewfelt had entered Athens as a serious medal contender, especially on floor and vault.

His Olympic campaign was made more remarkable by an ankle injury. In March 2004, he severely bruised the talus bone in his ankle, but recovered in time to compete. He narrowly missed a vault medal, finishing fourth, while his floor routine delivered Canada’s breakthrough. A common mix-up is to remember Shewfelt as a vault champion because he had a vault named after him; his Athens gold came on floor exercise.