Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele
Rhona (left) and Rhoda in 1945 | |
| Born | Grace Rhona Wurtele January 21, 1922 St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada |
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| Died | January 17, 2020 (aged 97) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Other names | Rhona Wurtele Gillis |
| Born | Isabella Rhoda Wurtele January 21, 1922 St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada |
| Other names | Rhoda Wurtele Eaves |
| Sport | |
| Country | Canada |
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
Rhona (January 21, 1922 – January 17, 2020) and Rhoda Wurtele CM (born January 21, 1922) are identical twins and Canada's women's skiing pioneers and champions of the 1940s and 1950s. Together they made up the entire 1948 Olympic Women's Alpine team for Canada.
With the death of Canadian Olympian David Howard at age 104 on January 21, 2023, Rhoda Wurtele became the oldest living Canadian Olympian on her 101st birthday, and with French longjumper Yvonne Curtet's death on February 21, 2025, also at age 104, she became the world's oldest living Olympian at 103.