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Feb 16, 2014 · Laumann is 49 and living with her husband, GoodLife Fitness founder David (Patch) Patchell-Evans, and their children in a gated North Saanich waterfront home. In her memoir, she recalls how her...
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David 'Patch' Patchell-Evans is a Canadian entrepreneur and business executive. He is the CEO of GoodLife Fitness, a position he has held since founding the gym chain in April 1979.
While Patchell-Evans runs more than 400 clubs in Canada, and hundreds more in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia, he looks to home in Victoria for the inspiration that helps drive his business. He marvels at the story of his wife, rower Silken Laumann, who won a heroic Olympic bronze medal after having her leg torn open just weeks before the ...
GoodLife was founded in 1979 in London, Ontario by David Patchell-Evans. After suffering multiple broken bones following a motorcycle accident, Patchell-Evans began to workout following rehabilitation. He later bought the gym he exercised in. [4]
Feb 8, 2014 · Laumann had struggles with her own children. It would be a few years before she met her second husband, David Patchell-Evans, founder of the GoodLife Fitness chain and the “love of my life.”
Another setback came — her first marriage dissolved. Then, she met David Patchell-Evans, founder of the chain of GoodLife Fitness Clubs, and began a new life as part of a blended family.
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Dec 23, 2022 · For GoodLife Founder and CEO David Patchell-Evans, fitness is a right and he is on a lifelong mission to ensure everyone gets to exercise it.
