Virtue, Moir and St-Pierre headline Canada's Sports Hall of Fame class of 2023

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame announced its 2023 class of inductees in Calgary on Thursday.

The newest class includes individual three athletes and two teams, in addition to a pair in the builders category, that have achieved great success in their sports and helped lead the way for future generations in Canadian sport.

Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, considered among the greatest ice dancing duos in the sport's history, will join the hall, following a career which saw them win Olympic gold in the event at Vancouver 2010 and Pyeongchang 2018. After beginning their career together in 1997, the two developed a captivating and prolific partnership on the ice.

From 2008-2019, the duo took home 12 podium finishes at the Olympics and world championships while adding eight Canadian titles. Since retiring in 2019, they have continued to inspire young Canadian skaters as coaches, mentors, ambassadors and speakers. 

Virtue also completed an MBA and is now an executive director with Deloitte, a consulting firm, while Moir leads the Ice Academy of Montreal's satellite program in Ontario.

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Joining them as athlete inductees are former UFC fighter Georges St-Pierre, wheelchair basketball athlete Danielle Peers, Indigenous softball player Phyllis Bomberry, and curling's Team Ferby of Randy Ferbey, David Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, and Marcel Rocque. Indigenous lacrosse advocate Oren Lyons joins as a builder alongside Hiroshi Nakamura, a high performance judo coach.

The nine inductees will receive the Order of Sport, Canada's highest sporting honour, on Oct.19 in Gatineau, Que.

Since retiring, he has led the Georges St-Pierre Foundation, helping children through adversity,