Turgeon first caused a stir in 1994 when she won five medals at the Junior World Championship in Lake Placid (gold in giant slalom and combined , silver in super-G and bronze in downhill and slalom ). She won a race in the World Cup ; the Super-G in Innsbruck in February 2000. In addition, she was on the podium a total of seven more times, in Downhill and Super-G.
Turgeon celebrated her greatest success at the 2003 World Ski Championships in St. Moritz when she became world champion in the downhill. In the following season she could not start due to chronic back pain, in the 2004/05 season she only competed in five speed races, with her best result being a 16th place (departure Lake Louise on December 4th). The last time she contested a Super-G (45th place) in St. Moritz on December 21st , she had called for the downhill run on January 6th in Santa Caterina , but had not started. So she was not at the world championships and therefore could not defend her title. She planned a comeback for the 2005/2006 season, but then ended her career.
Turgeon is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .
Career record
1 World Cup victory (1 × Super-G)
8 World Cup podiums (6 × Super-G, 2 × Downhill)
1 world title (downhill in St. Moritz 2003)
7 Canadian championship titles (giant slalom 1993, 1995 and 1996; Super-G 1995 and 1997; slalom 1996; downhill 2001)
Canada
