Dominique Maltais
Dominique Maltais 
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| birthday | November 9, 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Petite-Rivière-Saint-François , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Snowboard cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | François Boivin, Marcel Mathieu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 World cup
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Dominique Maltais (born November 9, 1980 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François , Québec ) is a Canadian snowboarder who specializes in snowboard cross and won two Olympic medals in this discipline.
Career
Maltais began snowboarding at the age of eleven and first took part in the Canadian snowboard cross championships in March 2002 . In the following two years, 2003 and 2004, she won the national championship title in the discipline.
On December 11, 2003, Maltais made their debut in the Snowboard World Cup at the Whistler race . Already in the second World Cup race she achieved a podium position when she came second in Bad Gastein . In the following season 2004/05 she drove to her first World Cup victory in snowboard cross at the race in Nassfeld . At the end of the season she was finally in first place ahead of her compatriot Maëlle Ricker and won her first snowboard cross world cup. When she first participated in the Snowboard World Championship in 2005 , however, she missed a medal in the final and came in fourth.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Maltais took part in the first ever snowboard cross competition and achieved the second fastest time in the qualification round. In the final, she won the bronze medal despite a collision with the later Olympic champion Tanja Frieden after Maëlle Ricker had also fallen. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , four years later , she was eliminated in the qualifying round after having had a serious fall in training.
After four years without a World Cup victory, Maltais won three races in a row in December 2010 and thus laid the foundation for their second overall victory in the 2010/11 Snowboard Cross World Cup . In the following seasons, 2011/12 and 2012/13 , the Canadian was able to repeat her victories in the discipline world cup. In the three years she won a total of eight World Cup races and was not among the top four participants in only three cases. At the same time, she won her first medal at a snowboard world championship in 2011 when she won bronze in snowboard cross in La Molina . Two years later, at the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in their home province of Québec, Maltais won the silver medal.
In 2014 she qualified for the third time in a row for the Olympic Winter Games . After she had achieved the third-best time in the qualifying round, she reached the finals through victories in the quarter and semi-finals. There she won the silver medal behind the Czech Eva Samková .
In January 2015, she finished fifth at the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . In the same month she won silver at the Winter X Games 2015 . In March 2015 she won her 15th World Cup victory in Veysonnaz and finished the 2014/15 season in second place in the Snowboard Cross World Cup.
Web links
- Official website (French, English)
- Dominique Maltais in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Dominique Maltais in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Dominique Maltais on the xgames.espn.go.com website
- Dominique Maltais on the 2014 Winter Olympics website
- Profile on the Canada Snowboard website
Individual evidence
- ^ Lindsay Berra: Jacobellis makes rookie mistake on biggest stage , ESPN , February 18, 2006
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| SURNAME | Maltais, Dominique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petite-Rivière-Saint-François , Québec |