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{{Infobox swimmer<br />
| name = Pamela Rai<br />
| image = Pamela Leila Rai.jpg<br />
| image_size = 220px<br />
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| fullname = Pamela Leila Rai<br />
| nicknames = "Pam"<br />
| national_team = Canada<br />
| strokes = [[Freestyle swimming|Freestyle]]<br />
| club = Hyack Swim Club<br />
| collegeteam = [[Victoria Vikes|University of Victoria]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|3|29|mf=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New Westminster, British Columbia]]<br />
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| height = {{convert|1.72|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<br />
| weight = {{convert|57|kg|lb|abbr=on}}<br />
| medaltemplates = <br />
{{MedalSport | Women's swimming }}<br />
{{MedalCountry | Canada }}<br />
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}<br />
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]] }}<br />
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan American Games]] }}<br />
{{MedalSilver | [[1983 Pan American Games|1983 Caracas]] | [[Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games|4×100 m freestyle]] }}<br />
{{MedalCompetition | [[Commonwealth Games]] }}<br />
{{MedalGold | [[Aquatics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games|1986 Edinburgh]] | 4×100 m freestyle }}<br />
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'''Pamela Leila Rai''' (born March 29, 1966, in New Westminster, BC, Canada) is a former [[Freestyle swimming|freestyle]] and [[Butterfly swimming|butterfly]] swimmer who represented Canada from 1980 to 1987. Rai competed at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California where she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, with teammates [[Anne Ottenbrite]], [[Reema Abdo]] and [[Michelle MacPherson]]. Rai successfully represented Canada at many international meets throughout her career. Other notable accomplishments include University of Victoria Athlete of the Year 1986, City of Victoria Athlete of the Year 1985, 1983 Hapoel Games silver, 1983 Pan American Games silver, and 1986 Commonwealth Games gold medals. From 1984 to 1987 Rai swam for the University of Victoria, where she dominated Canadian university women's swimming. Rai is currently a high school math and social justice teacher and a certified yoga instructor trained in India of the [[Sivananda]] lineage. She is an honored inductee to the [[BC Sports Hall of Fame]], the Swim BC Hall of Fame, the [[University of Victoria]] Legacy Hall of Fame and the Delta Sports Hall of Fame. Rai is the first woman in the world of Indian ancestry, and the first Indo-Canadian to win an Olympic medal.<br />
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In 1964, Rai's father, [[Harinder Jit Singh Rai]] was the first Indo-Canadian to qualify for an Olympic Games (field hockey). His stellar skills led him to score the only goal at the qualifying match enabling Canada's field hockey team entry to the Olympic games for the first time. Just prior to the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, he was removed from the team by officials who favoured an all-white contingent. Rai dedicated her 1984 Olympic success to her father who died from leukemia 3 months prior to her competing in the games.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{COC profile|pamela-rai|Pamela Rai}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070310232028/http://www.olympic.ca/EN/athletes/query/details2.php?id=37209 archive])<br />
* {{IOC profile|pamela-rai|Pamela Rai}}<br />
* {{SR/Olympics profile|ra/pam-rai-1|Pam Rai}}<br />
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{{Footer Commonwealth Champions 4x100m Freestyle Women}}<br />
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[[Category:1966 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Canadian female freestyle swimmers]]<br />
[[Category:Canadian sportspeople of Indian descent]]<br />
[[Category:Canadian people of Indian descent]]<br />
[[Category:Canadian people of Punjabi descent]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming]]<br />
[[Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Canada]]<br />
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists in swimming]]<br />
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Canada]]<br />
[[Category:Pan American Games medalists in swimming]]<br />
[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada]]<br />
[[Category:Sportspeople from New Westminster]]<br />
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games]]<br />
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games]]<br />
[[Category:University of Victoria alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Canadian women]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Canadian women]]<br />
[[Category:Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games]]<br />
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