Hugo Barrette

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Full name Hugo Barrette
Nickname Huge
Date of birth 4th July 1991
nation CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Train: short term
Most important successes
Track cycling world cup
2018/19 gold - overall ranking Keirin
Pan American Games
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Pan American Championships
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2018 PanAmericanJersey.png - Keirin
Last updated: August 13, 2020

Hugo Barrette (born July 4, 1991 in Cap-aux-Meules ) is a Canadian track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

Athletic career

Hugo Barrette grew up in Québec until his family returned to their home in the Magdalene Islands , where the father works as a family doctor. Barrette initially played ice hockey and cycled on the streets for training in the summer, which was made difficult by the constant, strong wind there. At the age of 17, he moved to Montreal for better training opportunities , but missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympics . The following year he won the team sprint with Travis Smith and Joseph Veloce at the Pan American Cycling Championships with a new national record and was national champion in sprint and keirin .

In January 2014, he finished fourth in the Keirin at the Track Cycling World Cup in Guadalajara , making him seventh in the UCI world rankings, the first Canadian man in the top ten in 20 years.

For some time, lived Barrette in California to train there, but with the opening of Mattamy National Cycling Center in Canada Milton , he moved to Ontario . There he was Canadian Sprint Champion for 2014 in January 2015.

In 2015, Hugo Barrette won three medals at the Pan American Games , whose track competitions were held on the cycle track where he trains: one gold in the sprint and team sprint (with Evan Carey and Joseph Veloce) and a bronze one in the keirin. He had an accident during training before the start of the 2015/16 Track Cycling World Cup competitions in Cali : For inexplicable reasons, he broke through the balustrade of the cycling track with his bike and fell on the stands; he had to be taken care of in the hospital.

Hugo Barrette was born on the Magdalenen Islands, an archipelago with around 12,000 inhabitants (Barrette: "my fan club"), which is located in the southeast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence . The Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Barrette was "99 percent" the only athlete from the islands who had ever managed to become a member of a Canadian national team for the Olympic or Pan-American Games.

In 2016 Barrette was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ; in the Keirin he was ranked 13th. The following year he was Pan-American Champion in the Sprint, 2018 in the Sprint and Keirin. In 2019 he won the overall Keirin ranking of the Track Cycling World Cup 2018/19 .

In the same year Barrette went to Trinidad and Tobago to train for a few months , where Erin Hartwell coached the local national team until January 2020 . In September he broke his shoulder during the Pan American Championships when he fell in the Keirin race and was therefore unable to qualify for the UCI Track World Championships 2020 in Berlin . In July 2020, the Canadian Association appointed him to the squad to take part in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo the following year.

successes

2012
2013
2014
  • silver Pan American Championship - Keirin
  • MaillotCanadá.PNG Canadian champion - sprint
2015
  • goldPan American Game Winner - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Evan Carey and Joseph Veloce )
  • bronze Pan American Games - Keirin
  • bronze Pan American Championship - Sprint
  • MaillotCanadá.PNGCanadian Champion - Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Evan Carey and Joseph Veloce )
2017
2018
2019

Web links

Commons : Hugo Barrette  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hugo Barrette. In: Canadian Olympic Team - Official Website. June 4, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Rob Sturney: Hugo Barrette hurt in track workout accident in Cali, Colombia. In: Canadian Cycling Magazine. October 28, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Jean-François Racine: [VIDÉO] L'espoir olympique Hugo Barrette victime d'une grave chute en plein entraînement. In: Le Journal de Montréal. October 30, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015 .
  4. ^ Canadian cyclist Hugo Barrette proud of Magdalen Islands roots. In: torontosun.com. July 21, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  5. ^ Hugo Barrette mise sur l'exil pour progresser. In: ici.radio-canada.ca. August 22, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2020 (French).
  6. ^ Canadian cyclist Hugo Barrette involved in crash at Pan Am track championships. In: cbc.ca. September 6, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ecarte of Mondiaux, Hugo Barrette voit son rêve olympique se compliquer. In: ici.radio-canada.ca. February 13, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Cycling Canada announces road and track teams for the Tokyo Olympics. In: everythinggp.com. July 29, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Barrette, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Cap-aux-meules