Huynh, the daughter of two Vietnamese refugees who came to Canada in the 1970s to settle in the northern town of Hazelton, made history with Canada's first female wrestling Olympic gold in the under 48 kilograms category at Beijing 2008 before taking bronze four years later in London.

She also won 11 Canadian titles and two Pan American Games golds before announcing her retirement after London 2012.

The 36-year-old then played an influential role in wrestling's successful bid to return to the Olympic programme after being briefly dropped in 2013.

She is President of the United World Wrestling Athletes Commission, and was an assistant Chef de Mission for Team Canada at Rio 2016.

Huynh duly becomes the fourth freestyle wrestler to be inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame after James Trifunov in 1960, Earl McCready in 1967 and Daniel Igali in 2007. 

Trifunov followed Olympic bantamweight bronze at Amsterdam 1928 with victory at the British Empire Games in Hamilton in 1930.

McCready also won heavyweight gold at those same British Empire Games.

Igali claimed lightweight under 69kg gold at Sydney 2000.

Huynh serves as an assistant coach at the Dinos Wrestling Club at the University of Calgary and Next Generation coach at the Canadian Sport Institute in Calgary.

Induction ceremonies will take place on Nov. 9 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.