Geneviève Lalonde
Geneviève Lalonde 
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| birthday | 5th September 1991 (age 28) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Montreal , Canada | |||||||||
| size | 170 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | |||||||||
| Best performance | 9: 29.82 min 
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| society | Speed River TFC | |||||||||
| Trainer | Dave Scott-Thomas | |||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||
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| last change: August 23, 2019 | ||||||||||
Geneviève Lalonde (born September 5, 1991 in Montreal ) is a Canadian middle-distance and obstacle runner .
Athletic career
Geneviève Lalonde gained her first international experience at the 2007 Youth World Championships in Ostrava , where she finished tenth in the 1,500-meter run in 4: 30.90 minutes . At the Cross Country World Championships in Edinburgh in 2008 she was 36th in the U20 rankings in 21:35 min. She then reached fifth place in the 3000 meter run and sixth place over 1500 meters at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune . At the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Amman , she could not finish her run. In 2010, she retired from the Junior World Championships in Moncton at home with 4: 19.20 minutes in advance and was sixth in the obstacle course in 9: 57.74 minutes. At the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen 2011 she finished eleventh in 10: 09.43 minutes and fourth at the U23 NACAC Championships 2012 in Irapuato in 10: 56.38 minutes. In 2013 she won the bronze medal at the Francophonie Games in Nice in 9: 53.35 minutes.
Two years later she won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto in 9: 53.03 minutes behind the two Americans Ashley Higginson and Shalaya Kipp . So she qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 9: 36.83 minutes in the lead . In the following year she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the first time and finished there in 9: 41.88 min in the final in 16th place. In 2017 she reached the finals at the World Championships in London , where she finished 13th with 9: 29.99 minutes. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she finished eleventh over 3000 meters in 9: 03.91 minutes. She then finished seventh in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast in 9: 46.68 minutes. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , she won the gold medal with a new player record of 9: 41.45 min.
In 2017, 2018 and 2019 Lalonde became Canadian Champion in the obstacle course. She graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in geography . Her father Marc Lalonde was active as a squash player.
Personal bests
- 1500 meters: 4: 08.54 min, June 7, 2019 in Guelph
- 1500 meters (hall): 4: 18.80 min, January 27, 2018 in Montreal
- 3000 meters: 9: 42.99 min, October 16, 2008 in Pune
- 3000 meters (hall): 8: 49.78 min, February 10, 2018 in Boston
- 3000 m obstacle: 9: 29.82 min, May 18, 2019 in Shanghai ( Canadian record )
Web links
- Geneviève Lalonde in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Geneviève Lalonde in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Lalonde, Geneviève |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian obstacle runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th September 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |