Heather Moyse

Heather Moyse

Heather Moyse in Vancouver 2010
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1978-07-23) July 23, 1978 (age 38) Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Residence	Toronto
Alma mater	University of Waterloo
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight	72.5 kg (160 lb; 11.42 st)
Website	Official website
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Bobsleigh
Event(s)	2-woman
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	01 ! 01 !
Medal record Women´s Bobsleigh Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Two-woman 2014 Sochi Two-woman World Championships 2011 Königssee Two-woman 2011 Königssee Mixed team

Heather Moyse (born July 23, 1978) is a Canadian athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist, representing Canada in international competition as a bobsledder, rugby union player, and track cyclist and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate level in rugby, soccer and track and field.

Moyse was a two-time Female Athlete of the Year at Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside, Prince Edward Island where she competed in soccer, basketball, rugby and track and field. A graduate of the University of Waterloo kinesiology program, she was inducted into that school's Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Moyse received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award as P.E.I.’s outstanding athlete in 2006 and 2010, was named Prince Edward Island's Senior Female Athlete of the Year for 2005, 2006 and 2010 and has won ten Sport P.E.I. awards in total since 1998 . In 2010, Moyse and bobsled pilot Kaillie Humphries were nominated as Sportswoman of the Year by the American Women's Sports Foundation in the Team category. Heather also received the 2010 University of Waterloo Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Young Alumni Award. On April 14, 2011 she was named 2010 Ontario Female Athlete of the Year, making her one of the only, if not the only, athletes to win the same award in two provinces in the same year. In 2012, she was named by Sportsnet Magazine as one of the 30 Most Beautiful Athletes on the Planet. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Order of Prince Edward Island.

In 2005–2006, her rookie bobsleigh season, Moyse and her partner Helen Upperton won the Canadian Championships and earned four medals on the World Cup circuit including a gold at an event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Heather also set push start records on five international tracks. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Moyse and Upperton finished in fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh event, missing bronze by five one-hundredths of a second behind the host Italian team. The pair set the push start record for the Olympic track with a 5.16-second start time in their first heat.