Anouk English

Anouk English
nation	Canada
birthday	October 21, 1984
place of birth	Prévost ,  Canada
size	170 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
society	Montréal International
National squad	since 2004
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin 3000 m relay bronze 2006 Turin 500 m  Short track world championships bronze 2005 Chuncheon team bronze 2006 Minneapolis 3000 m relay bronze 2006 Montreal team

Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (* 21st October 1984 in Prévost , Québec as Anouk Leblanc-Boucher ) is a former Canadian Shorttrackerin .

Career

English celebrated international success for the first time at the 2004 Short Track Junior World Championships in Beijing , where she won the gold medal over 500 meters. Only a year later she moved to the adult camp and won bronze with the team at the 2005 Short Track Team World Championships in Chuncheon .

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , the ecology student at the Université du Québec in Montreal won the bronze medal in the short track over 500 meters behind Chinese Wang Meng and Bulgarian Evgenija Radanowa . She also won silver in the relay race over 3000 meters with the Canadian team.

A little later, English managed to win the bronze medal with the team again at the 2006 Short Track Team World Championships in Montreal . In addition, she won bronze at the 2006 Short Track World Championships in Minneapolis with the relay over 3000 m.

At the end of 2006, English temporarily withdrew from international sport because of her pregnancy. However, she planned her international return after the birth of her son in June 2007. Shortly after the birth, she finally announced the official end of her active career and began working as a short track trainer. Since 2009 she has been working as a personal trainer at GoodLife Fitness in Quispamsis .

In 2014 the Canadian, who had meanwhile given birth to three children and changed her name to Anouk English, wanted to sell her silver medal from Turin 2006 for 1 million Canadian dollars in order to finance a comeback to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang to use.

Web links

• Anouk English in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anouk Leblanc-Boucher a envie de revenir ( French ) RDS. February 24, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
2. ↑ Olympic speed skater Anouk Leblanc-Boucher wants $ 1M for medal ( English ) CBC / Radio-Canada . February 24, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.