Marc-Antoine Gagnon
Marc-Antoine Gagnon 
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| birthday | 6th March 1991 (age 29) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Montreal | ||||||||||||
| size | 173 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Moguls, dual moguls | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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Marc-Antoine Gagnon (born March 6, 1991 in Montreal ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . He starts in the moguls disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls.
Career
Gagnon mainly participated in the Nor Am Cup from 2005 to 2011. He won his only victory to date in Val Saint-Côme in February 2011 . In the World Cup he made his debut on January 15, 2011 in Mont Gabriel and finished ninth in the Dual Moguls competition. At the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley , he came 15th in the dual moguls competition. He achieved his first World Cup podium on March 18, 2012 with third place in the Dual Moguls competition in Megève . At the 2013 World Championships in Voss , he finished 17th in the Moguls and 15th in the Dual Moguls.
In the 2013/14 World Cup season , Gagnon came third in Deer Valley and second in Inawashiro . In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he was fourth in the Mughal competition. At the 2015 World Championships on Kreischberg , he finished fifth in the Moguls and then won the bronze medal in the Dual Moguls competition. In March 2015 he became the Canadian champion in the Dual Moguls. In the 2016/17 season , Gagnon achieved three top 10 placements in the World Cup, including 2nd place in the Dual Moguls in Deer Valley, which brought him to ninth place in the Moguls World Cup. At the season highlight, the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , he was classified 19th in the Dual Moguls and 10th in the Moguls competition.
Gagnon has taken part in 65 World Cup races so far and was in the top ten 34 times. (Status: end of season 2016/17)
At the 2018 Olympic Games , he again missed the medal ranks in the Moguls competition. He finished fourth.
successes
Olympic games
- Sochi 2014 : 4th moguls
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 4th Moguls
World championships
- Deer Valley 2011 : 15th Dual Moguls
- Voss 2013 : 15th Dual Moguls, 17th Moguls
- Kreischberg 2015 : 3rd moguls, 5th dual moguls
- Sierra Nevada 2017 : 10th moguls, 19th dual moguls
World cup
Gagnon has achieved 5 podiums in the World Cup so far.
World Cup ratings:
| season | total | Moguls | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2010/11 | 50. | 18th | 13. | 202 |
| 2011/12 | 15th | 35 | 5. | 449 |
| 2012/13 | 26th | 31 | 5. | 368 |
| 2013/14 | 23. | 33 | 6th | 368 |
| 2014/15 | 20th | 32 | 8th. | 290 |
| 2015/16 | 190. | 2.75 | 39. | 22nd |
| 2016/17 | 52. | 23.27 | 9. | 256 |
More Achievements
- 1 Canadian championship title (Dual Moguls 2015)
- 5 podium places in the Nor-Am Cup, including 1 victory
- 1 podium in the Australian New Zealand Cup
Web links
- Marc-Antoine Gagnon in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Marc-Antoine Gagnon in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait at Freestyle Ski Canada
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| SURNAME | Gagnon, Marc-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian freestyle skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |