and McBean finished runners-up in double sculls. They improved on their result at the championships the following year, and also secured silver as part of the quad sculls team. Her final event before retiring was the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she won a gold medal with McBean in double sculls and a bronze in the quad sculls. At the time of her death, she and McBean were the only Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games. Honours Heddle was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1994. Three years later, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia, inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, and named B.C. Athlete of the Year. She was also conferred the Thomas Keller Medal by FISA, the International Rowing Federation, for her outstanding career in international rowing in 1999. Heddle was enshrined into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. She was subsequently granted an honorary doctorate of letters by UBC (her alma mater) in November 2004. Personal life After retiring, Heddle moved to Kerrisdale in Vancouver. She married Mike Bryden in October 2000. They had two children, one of whom also studied at UBC and joined its rowing team. Heddle died on January 11, 2021, at her home in Vancouver. She was 55, and had breast cancer and lymphoma followed by melanoma and brain cancer in the six years preceding her death. References External links 1965 births 2021 deaths Deaths from cancer in British Columbia Members of the Order of British Columbia Sportspeople from British Columbia Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic rowers of Canada Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canadian female rowers University of British Columbia alumni Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in rowing Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Thomas Keller Medal recipients Rowers at the 1987 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games 20th-century Canadian women