16 Facts About Kyle Shewfelt

Kyle Shewfelt's father was an athlete playing for the Brandon Wheat Kings hockey team.

Kyle Shewfelt attended Calgary's National Sport School in order to complete his high school education, while pursuing his Olympic plans with fellow athletes at the school Kyle trained at Altadore Gymnastic Club under coach Kelly Manjak, from age six up until the 2004 Olympics.

Kyle Shewfelt stayed in Calgary, training with coach Tony Smith at the University of Calgary.

In 2000 Kyle Shewfelt was unexpectedly, due to his young age, selected for the Sydney Olympics.

Kyle Shewfelt competed in the individual floor and vault event qualifications in ranks of 12 and 26, respectively, and did not qualify to the finals in either.

Kyle Shewfelt caught the attention of judges performing a new vault, a Yurchenko with two and one half twists.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, there was some controversy when Kyle Shewfelt was marginally edged out by Marian Dragulescu of Romania with an average combined score of 9.612 to the bronze medal in the individual vault final by 0.013 points despite Dragulescu falling in his second vault and Kyle Shewfelt completing two comparatively well-executed vaults with an average combined score of 9.599.

In 2005 Kyle Shewfelt played Kelly Manjak in the Hungarian made film White Palms.

In 2006 Kyle Shewfelt made a comeback to the international scene, leading the Canadian team to a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, collecting bronze on Floor and gold on Vault for himself.

That same year, Kyle Shewfelt helped his team to a second-place finish at the Pacific Alliance competition.

Kyle Shewfelt was selected to represent Canada in Beijing after proving that he was in top form at a test competition capping a week-long training camp in Calgary.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Kyle Shewfelt competed in the preliminary artistic gymnastics round.

Kyle Shewfelt was unable to reach the top eight in either of his specialties, finishing ninth in vault and 11th in floor.

Kyle Shewfelt received the highest execution score for the two vaults he performed.

On May 21,2009, Kyle Shewfelt announced on his blog that he was retiring from competition.

Kyle Shewfelt would take on an ambassador role with Gymnastics Canada to promote this sport.