Benoît Huot

Benoît Huot
CM CQ
Personal information
Born (1984-01-24) January 24, 1984
Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Canada
SportSwimming(S10)

Benoit Huot CM CQ (born January 24, 1984) is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer, who has won nine Paralympic Games gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes.

Hailing from Longueuil, Quebec, Huot was born with club feet, started swimming competitively at age 10 at the CAMO Natation club, where he is trained by Benoit Lebrun. In the beginning he competed alongside able-bodied swimmers and competed at two Quebec Games, earning silver in 1997.