Marie-Michèle Gagnon
Marie-Michèle Gagnon 
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 Canada
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| birthday | 25th April 1989 (age 31) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Lévis , Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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| discipline |
Giant slalom , slalom , super-G , combination |
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| society | Mont-Orignal | ||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||
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| last change: March 13, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
Marie-Michèle Gagnon (born April 25, 1989 in Lévis , Québec ) is a Canadian ski racer . Her strongest disciplines are giant slalom and slalom as well as the combination .
biography
Gagnon drove her first FIS race in December 2004. In the Nor-Am Cup , she started in November 2005 for the first time. In the 2006/07 season she achieved first place in the super combination ranking with two wins, second place in the Super G ranking and fifth place in the overall ranking. Due to injury, she was unable to contest a single race in the 2007/08 season.
On December 13, 2008, Gagnon had her World Cup premiere at the giant slalom in La Molina . After failing to qualify for the second round in the following three races, she surprised on January 25, 2009 in Cortina d'Ampezzo : With the high starting number 43, she finished ninth in the giant slalom and thus scored her first World Cup points. In February she had no success at the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , both in giant slalom and in slalom, she failed in the first round. In the Slalom of Ofterschwang on March 7th, 2009 she finished eighth and got her first World Cup points in slalom. In the 2008/09 Nor-Am Cup , Gagnon celebrated four victories and thus secured the overall victory and victory in the giant slalom classification. At the end of the 2008/09 season she was Canadian champion in the super combined.
In winter 2009/10 her best World Cup result was a 14th place in the Levi slalom . In the 2009/10 Nor-Am Cup , she achieved third place in the giant slalom classification and fifth in the overall ranking with two wins. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she achieved 21st place in giant slalom and 31st place in slalom. She ended the season with two Canadian championship titles in the super combined and in the slalom. Since the winter of 2010/11, Gagnon no longer competes in the Nor-Am Cup, but is now fully focused on the World Cup. On December 12, 2010, she achieved the best result of the 2010/11 season when she finished fifth in the giant slalom in St. Moritz . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was 22nd in the Super-G and 23rd in the giant slalom. At the end of the season another three Canadian championship titles were added.
Also in the 2011/12 World Cup season , Gagnon stayed close to the world's best and achieved several top 10 placements. After finishing fifth in the Ofterschwang slalom on March 4, 2012, after equalizing her best career result, six days later she finished third in the Åre slalom , which was her first podium finish. In the Slalom World Cup she was tenth. She celebrated her first World Cup victory in the 2013/14 World Cup season in the Super Combined in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee on January 12, 2014. It was the first ever World Cup podium for a Canadian skier in this discipline. Due to the cancellation of the second super combination in Crans-Montana , Gagnon was determined to be the combined World Cup winner after just one competition.
In the following winter of 2014/15, Gagnon could not quite maintain this level and was classified five times in the top 10. The winter of 2015/16 brought another increase in performance: She was third in the slalom in Crans-Montana and won on February 28, 2016 in Soldeu again a World Cup combination. Her best result in the 2016/17 season was fourth. At the beginning of December 2017, she had a bad fall during downhill training in Lake Louise and tore her right knee with a cruciate ligament , which meant she was out for the rest of the season.
Private
Gagnon is in a relationship with the American ski racer Travis Ganong .
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 21st giant slalom, 31st slalom
- Sochi 2014 : 9th slalom
World championships
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 22nd Super-G, 23rd giant slalom
- Schladming 2013 : 8th giant slalom, 13th slalom
- St. Moritz 2017 : 6th Alpine Combination, 19th Super-G, 20th Giant Slalom, 20th Slalom
- Åre 2019 : 14th Alpine Combined, 21st Super-G, 23rd Giant Slalom, 32nd descent
World Cup victories
- 4 podium places, including 2 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 12, 2014 | Zauchensee | Austria | Super combination |
| February 28, 2016 | Soldeu | Andorra | Super combination |
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | ||||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2008/09 | 73. | 63 | - | - | - | - | 35. | 31 | 33. | 32 | - | - |
| 2009/10 | 103. | 21st | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43. | 21st | - | - |
| 2010/11 | 29 | 225 | - | - | 49. | 5 | 16. | 87 | 22nd | 85 | 15th | 48 |
| 2011/12 | 21st | 373 | - | - | 44. | 5 | 26th | 75 | 10. | 248 | 12. | 45 |
| 2012/13 | 21st | 349 | - | - | 32. | 25th | 23. | 104 | 17th | 143 | 4th | 77 |
| 2013/14 | 13. | 521 | 51. | 2 | 19th | 66 | 19th | 121 | 6th | 232 | 1. | 100 |
| 2014/15 | 28. | 279 | - | - | 31. | 29 | 34. | 19th | 11. | 186 | 5. | 45 |
| 2015/16 | 16. | 598 | - | - | 44. | 8th | 14th | 174 | 11. | 271 | 4th | 145 |
| 2016/17 | 14th | 452 | - | - | 30th | 44 | 15th | 156 | 15th | 152 | 7th | 100 |
| 2017/18 | 86. | 40 | - | - | - | - | 37. | 14th | 38. | 26th | - | - |
| 2018/19 | 46. | 167 | - | - | 23. | 77 | 24. | 70 | - | - | 13. | 20th |
| 2019/20 | 63. | 95 | 30th | 49 | 37. | 27 | 49. | 3 | - | - | 27. | 16 |
Nor-Am Cup
- 2006/07 season : 5th overall ranking, 1st combined ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking
- Season 2008/09 : 1st overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 6th slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 5th overall ranking, 3rd giant slalom ranking, 10th slalom ranking
- 2013/14 season : 7th slalom ranking
- Season 2015/16 : 6th giant slalom ranking, 7th slalom ranking
- 25 podium places, including 16 wins
Junior World Championships
- Québec 2006 : 45th giant slalom
- Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 2007 : 15th Super-G, 45th giant slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 9th giant slalom, 24th Super-G
Championship title
Gagnon is 15 times Canadian champion :
- Super-G (2): 2013, 2016
- Giant Slalom (4): 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019
- Slalom (6): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
- Combination (3): 2009, 2010, 2011
More Achievements
- Canadian junior champion in Super-G 2005
- 2 podium places in the European Cup
- 2 wins in the Australia New Zealand Cup
- 17 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon's website (English / French)
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile at the Canadian Ski Association (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gagnon celebrates 1st World Cup win, Canada's 1st in super combined. alpinecanada.org, January 12, 2014, archived from the original on January 15, 2014 ; accessed on January 14, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Canadian ski ace missed the Olympics. Kleine Zeitung , December 2, 2017, accessed December 14, 2017 (French).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gagnon, Marie-Michèle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lévis , Québec , Canada |