Laurence Vincent-Lapointe

Laurence Vincent-Lapointe (born May 27, 1992 ) is a Canadian canoe racer who starts in the Canadian . At the canoe racing world championships she was eleven times world champion.

Career

At the Canoe Racing World Championships 2010 on Lake Malta in Poznan , Laurence Vincent-Lapointe started in the single-Canadian over the 200 meters and won ahead of the Chinese Li Tianian and the Russian Maria Kazakova . She was able to defend this title three times up to the canoe racing world championships in 2015 . In 2015, when Stanilija Stamenova won , she missed a medal. At the Canoe Racing World Championships 2017 in Račice u Štětí , she won her fifth gold medal over this distance in the single-Canadian over the 200 meters.

At the Canoe Racing World Championships 2011 in Szeged , she also started in the two-man Canadian over the 500 meters and became world champion in this discipline together with Mallorie Nicholson . In contrast to 2011, she competed in the Canoe Sprint World Championships 2013 on Regattabahn Duisburg  in  Duisburg Sports Park along with Sara-Jane Caumartin and could share with her the title in a two-Canadians defended about 500 meters. While she missed a medal in 2014 as fourth and did not start in the two-man Canadian in 2015, she won the world title in this discipline for the third time at the 2017 World Championships together with Katie Vincent .

In both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games , there was no women's competition in the Canadian, which is why Laurence Vincent-Lapinte has not yet been able to start at the Olympic Games.

In August 2019 Vincent-Lapointe tested positive for doping and was temporarily banned.

Web links

• Laurence Vincent-Lapointe on canoeicf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eleven times world champion - and now a doping case
2. ↑ Eleven times world champion - and now a doping case