Chloé Dufour-Lapointe (born December 2, 1991 in Montreal ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . She specializes in the mogul slope disciplines moguls and dual moguls. The most significant successes of her career are the dual moguls world championship in 2013 and winning the moguls discipline in the 2015/16 World Cup season. Her sisters Justine and Maxime practice the same sport.
From February 2005, at the age of 13, Dufour-Lapointe took part in mogul competitions in the Nor-Am Cup, the North American continental championship. She achieved 15th place as the best result in her first season, and 4th place in her second 2005/06 season. At the Junior World Championships in Airolo in 2007 , she won gold in the dual moguls and bronze in the moguls discipline.
Dufour-Lapointe made her debut in the World Cup on December 13, 2007, when he was tenth in the Mughal competition in Tignes . The best results in her first 2007/08 World Cup season were two fifth places. After three top 10 placements in the World Cup, she did not get past a 15th place at the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro . Shortly thereafter, however, on March 18, 2009 in La Plagne , she achieved her first podium finish, finishing third in the Moguls competition. In the 2009/10 season she regularly achieved placements in the top ten, but was never on the podium. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she was fifth.
In the 2014/15 World Cup season , Dufour-Lapointe finished second four times and third once, which again resulted in third place in the discipline ranking. On Kreischberg , she just missed a medal win at the 2015 World Championships as fourth in the dual moguls competition. In the 2015/16 World Cup season , she excelled with consistently good performances: She won in Calgary and came second twice and third three times. With that she won the Aerials discipline by a narrow margin over her sister Justine. She could not quite maintain this level in the 2016/17 World Cup season , although two third places resulted. At the season highlight, the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , she finished 9th (Moguls) and 11th (Dual Moguls).
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