Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born March 25, 1994 in Montreal ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . She specializes in the mogul slope disciplines moguls and dual moguls. In 2014 she was Olympic champion, 2015 Moguls world champion. Her sisters Chloé and Maxime practice the same sport.
From January 2009, at the age of 14, Dufour-Lapointe took part in mogul competitions in the Nor-Am Cup, the North American continental championship, and achieved fourth place as the best result in her first season. In winter 2009/10 a second and two third places followed. She made her debut in the World Cup on December 11, 2010 in Ruka , where she immediately finished fifth. Four days later, she was third on the podium for the first time in Méribel . In her third World Cup competition, on January 15, 2011 at Mont Gabriel , she achieved her first victory in the Dual Moguls discipline; At 16 years and 9 months she is the youngest ever Freestyle World Cup winner.
In the 2011/12 season, Dufour-Lapointe finally established itself at the top of the world. First, she finished second six times, behind the superior Hannah Kearney , and came third. At the end of the season, she finally managed to win the second World Cup in Megève . In the overall World Cup this resulted in fourth place and in the Moguls World Cup second place. In the 2012/13 season you get four podiums, including a win in Calgary . At the 2013 World Championships in Voss , she won the Moguls bronze medal. In the 2013/14 World Cup winter , Dufour-Lapointe stood on the podium eight times, including four times as the winner, placing her in second place in the discipline ranking and third place in the overall ranking. She celebrated the greatest success of her career so far on February 8, 2014 when she won the Olympic Games in Sochi , ahead of her second-placed sister Chloé.
Dufour-Lapointe achieved five podiums in the 2014/15 season , including two wins. With this she finished second in the Moguls World Cup for the fourth time in a row (behind Kearney). At the 2015 World Championships on Kreischberg , she won the gold medal in the Moguls competition and the silver medal in the Dual Moguls competition. In the first half of the 2015/16 season , three more World Cup victories and a second place were added. Since she weakened somewhat in the second half of the season, she had to let her sister Chloé overtake her in the Aerials discipline and took second place again. In the winter of 2016/17 , she achieved a World Cup victory, added four second and one third place, which made her third in the Moguls discipline. At the highlight of the season, the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she won the bronze medal in the Moguls competition.
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