Caroline Brunet

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Caroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Québec ) is a former Canadian canoeist . She won two Olympic silver medals, one Olympic bronze medal and ten world titles.

Athletic career

Brunet was part of the Canadian national team from 1987. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , she retired prematurely both over 500 meters in a single kayak and in a four-person kayak . Four years later she reached the finals in both disciplines at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . In the single kayak she took seventh place, in the four she reached sixth place together with Alison Herst , Klara MacAskill and Kevyn Stafford .

She won her first international medal at the World Championships in 1993 when she fought bronze over 500 meters behind the German Birgit Schmidt and the Swede Anna Olsson . In 1994 in Mexico City she won bronze in the single on the new 200-meter course behind the Hungarian Rita Kőbán and Anna Olsson. The Canadian four with Caroline Brunet, Klara MacAskill, Alison Herst and Corrina Kennedy won bronze behind the Hungarians and the Germans on the 200-meter course. At the 1995 World Championships in Duisburg , Brunet won silver behind Rita Kőbán in both the 200 and 500 meter single. The Canadian foursome with Brunet, Kennedy, Herst and Marie Josée Gibeau won over 200 meters ahead of the Germans and the Swedes. The 200-meter course was not on the program at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . In the one over 500 meters, Rita Kőbán won 0.2 seconds ahead of Caroline Brunet, followed by the Italian Josefa Idem bronze.

At the 1997 World Championships in Dartmouth, Canada, the 1000 route was on the program for women for the first time. In front of a home crowd, Caroline Brunet won the individual competitions over 200, 500 and 1000 meters ahead of Josefa Idem. In 1998 in Szeged , Caroline Brunet won over 200 meters ahead of Josfa Idem and over 500 meters in front of Australian Katrin Borchert . Idem won over 1000 meters ahead of Brunet and Borchert. At the 1999 World Championships in Milan , Caroline Brunet won the three individual courses, as in 1997, before Josefa Idem. In a two-person kayak, the Poles Beata Sokolowska and Aneta Pastuszka won over 500 meters ahead of Caroline Brunet and Karen Furneaux . For the canoeists at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, as four years earlier, only the 500-meter route was on the program. Josefa Idem won in the single with 0.8 seconds ahead of Caroline Brunet. Together with Karen Furneaux, she took fifth place in the two.

After a medalless year 2001, Brunet won at the 2002 World Championships in Seville in the single over 200 meters silver behind the Spanish Maria Teresa Portelo and over 500 meters silver behind the Hungarian Katalin Kovács . In 2003 at the World Championships in Gainesville , Caroline Brunet received another full set of medals. She won over 200 meters in the single in front of Maria Teresa Portelo, over 500 meters she won silver behind Katalin Kovács. Together with Mylanie Barré , she won bronze in a pair of over 1000 meters behind the Hungarians and the Germans. At the end of her career, Caroline Brunet took part in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 , the women still only had the 500 meter competitions on the program. In the one category Brunet won bronze again behind the Hungarian Natasa Janics and Josefa Idem. In the two, she finished seventh together with Mylanie Barré.

Honors

In 1999, Caroline Brunet was the first female canoeist to receive the Lou Marsh Trophy for the best female athlete in Canada. In 2004 Adam van Koeverden was the second canoeist to win the trophy.

Caroline Brunet carried the Canadian flag into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney .

Five years after retiring, Caroline Brunet was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports and the Panthéon des Sports du Québec in 2009 . She has also been in the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame since 2010 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The place of birth Québec is given in the Canadian Hall of Fame and in the Pantheon of the Province of Québec, in the Olympic database SportsReference Montreal is named as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ World championship results over 500 meters on sports complete
  3. ↑ World championship results over 200 meters on sports complete
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV.Soul 1988 - Atlanta 1996 . Sportverlag Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 848
  5. ↑ World championship results over 1000 meters on sports complete
  6. ^ Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
personal data
SURNAME Brunet, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec