François Hamelin

François Hamelin
nation	Canada
birthday	18th December 1986
place of birth	Lévis
job	college student
Career
society	Les Fines Lames de Ste-Julie
Trainer	Derrick Campbell, Stephen Gough
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 × World team championships 0 × 3 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver 5000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 2008 Gangneung Season silver 2010 Sofia 500 m gold 2011 Sheffield Season World team championships silver 2008 Harbin team silver 2009 Heerenveen team silver 2010 Bormio team bronze 2011 Warsaw team  Short track junior world championships bronze 2005 Belgrade 2000 m relay silver 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 2000 m relay bronze 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 1000 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup February 1, 2008  World Cup victories 9 (including 1 individual victory)  500 m world cup 5. ( 2015/16 )  1000 m world cup 4th ( 2009/10 )  1500 m world cup 4. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 1 1 3  1000 meters 0 1 2  1500 meters 0 0 1  Relay / team 8th 4th 9
last change: February 14, 2016

François Hamelin (born December 18, 1986 in Lévis ) is a Canadian short tracker and Olympic champion .

Life

Hamelin, who lives in Montreal, started shorttrack when he was five. He competed internationally for the first time in January 2005 at the Junior World Championship. There he missed the finals in all individual races, but achieved this with the 2000 m relay and won bronze. Hamelin also won the bronze medal a year later when he reached third place over 1000 meters at the Junior World Championships. Since he had also placed himself at the front in the other races, he was also allowed to take part in the superfinal of the top eight and just missed the podium in fourth. With the Canadian season he even came second and won silver.

In the 2006/07 season, Hamelin did not start at any major event, but only at national races. Only one winter later he was nominated for the first time for the Short Track World Cup 2007/08 by the Canadian team. He was able to achieve results in all disciplines, but especially over 500 meters he placed in the top twenty places in the overall World Cup because he even finished the last race of the season over this distance in third place on the podium. At the 2007 World Cup, Hamelin was eleventh. In the 2007 season, Hamelin also set a new world record over 500 meters, which, however, only lasted for a short time and was undercut during the season.

Hamelin also got off to a good start in the 2008/09 Short Track World Cup and achieved a podium finish for the second time at the second World Cup in Vancouver , this time finishing third over the 1000 meters. The winner of that race was his older brother Charles Hamelin .

Web links

• François Hamelin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on speedskating.ca
• Report on Hamelin's third place in Vancouver