Marianne St-Gelais

Marianne St-Gelais
nation	Canada
birthday	17th February 1990
place of birth	Roberval, Quebec
size	162 cm
Weight	60 kg
job	college student
Career
society	CPV St-Félicien
Trainer	Sébastien Cros, Jeffrey Scholten
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 12 × 4 × Junior World Championship medals 1 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver 500 m silver 2010 Vancouver Season silver 2014 Sochi 3000 m relay  Short track world championships bronze 2010 Sofia 500 m silver 2010 Sofia Season silver 2010 Bormio team bronze 2011 Sheffield Season silver 2013 Debrecen 3000 m silver 2013 Debrecen 3000 m relay bronze 2013 Debrecen 1500 m silver 2014 Montreal 3000 m relay gold 2016 Seoul 1500 m silver 2016 Seoul All-around silver 2016 Seoul 500 m silver 2016 Seoul 3000 m relay silver 2017 Rotterdam All-around silver 2017 Rotterdam 500 m silver 2017 Rotterdam 1000 m silver 2017 Rotterdam 1500 m bronze 2018 Montreal 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships bronze 2008 Bolzano 500 m bronze 2008 Bolzano Season gold 2009 Sheerbrooke 500 m silver 2009 Sheerbrooke Season
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup February 2007  World Cup victories 19 (including 18 individual wins)  500 m world cup 1. ( 2010/11 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 , 2017/18 )  1000 m world cup 2. ( 2014/15 )  1500 m world cup 5. (2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 12 9 8th  1000 meters 5 5 4th  1500 meters 1 3 2  Relay / team 1 10 16
last change: February 27, 2019

Marianne St-Gelais (born February 17, 1990 in Roberval ) is a Canadian short tracker .

Career

St-Gelais started ice skating at the age of ten. After her first national successes in the junior sector, she started at the Canada Winter Games 2007 and won a total of four national titles. Then St-Gelais debuted in the 2006/07 season in Budapest for the first time in the World Cup. She reached fifth place over 500 m and 14th over 1000 m. In the 2007/08 season she was not used in the World Cup, but started in Bolzano at the Junior World Championship. There she won bronze medals over 500 m and with the relay, in the overall ranking she was seventh. In the following season 2008/09 St-Gelais reached over 500 m and with the relay their first podium places in the World Cup. In Sherbrooke, not far from her hometown, she was also Junior World Champion over 500 m and won silver with the relay.

The 2009/10 season was St-Gelais' final breakthrough to the top of the world. At the four World Cup events she achieved six podium finishes. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Vancouver . There she achieved her greatest sporting success to date. On her 20th birthday she won silver over 500 m behind Wang Meng and in front of Arianna Fontana and was then able to win silver with the relay. At the World Championships in Sofia , she won bronze over 500 m and was seventh overall. With the season she also achieved silver. Shortly afterwards she also won silver at the team world championship in Bormio . She dominated the 2010/11 World Cup over her parade course of 500 m, won a total of five of the eight races and was the overall World Cup winner over this distance. At the 2011 World Championships in Sheffield , she was surprisingly unable to win a medal over 500 m, but took bronze with the relay. In the 2011/12 season , St-Gelais won her first World Cup races over 1000 m in Saguenay and Dordrecht , and she took six podium places in the season, including two more victories over 500 m. She finished fifth in the World Cup over 500 m and 1000 m. At the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai , she only started in the relay and finished fourth in the final. In the 2012/13 season she was second and third in the World Cup five times and thus reached fourth place in the 500 m World Cup. At the 2013 World Championships in Debrecen , she won silver twice and bronze once. In the following season she achieved third place in Shanghai over 500 m and in Seoul with the relay and reached seventh place in the World Cup over 500 m at the end of the season. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won the relay silver, which she succeeded again at the following World Cup in Montreal .

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, St-Gelais won over 1000 m in Salt Lake City and also took third place there over 500 m and with the relay. In the further course of the season she won three times second and four times third. In Dresden she won her first World Cup victory with the relay. Her best result at the 2015 World Championships in Moscow was sixth place over 500 m and with the relay. She finished the season in third place in the World Cup over 500 m and in second place in the World Cup over 1000 m. In the 2015/16 season she came in second place six times and third place four times in the World Cup. In addition, she had four victories and thus won the world cup over 500 m. In addition, she achieved sixth place in the World Cup over 1500 m and fourth place in the World Cup over 1000 m. At the season highlight, the 2016 World Championships in Seoul , she won the 500 m, in the all-around and with the relay the silver medal and the gold medal over 1500 m. After finishing second over 500 m in Calgary at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, she won the 500 m in Salt Lake City and also took third place in the relay and second place over 1500 m. This was followed by four third places and two second places. In addition, she won the 500 m and 1000 m in Dresden and finally, like last year, the World Cup over 500 m. In the World Cup over 1000 m, she was sixth. At the 2017 World Championships in Rotterdam , she won the silver medal in the 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and all-around competitions. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season she took second place with the relay at the World Cup in Budapest and third with the relay and first place over 500 m in Dordrecht . In Shanghai she achieved third place over 1500 m and second place over 1000 m and finally achieved first place in the World Cup over 500 m for the third time in a row. In addition, she was eighth in the World Cup over 1000 m and fifth in the World Cup over 1500 m. Her best placings at the highlight of the season, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , were 11th place over 1000 m and eighth place with the relay. In March 2018, she won the bronze medal with the relay at the World Championships in Montreal . In the all-around competition, she achieved 19th place there.

St-Gelais lives in Montreal and trains at the national training center there. She is in a relationship with the short tracker and Olympic champion Charles Hamelin .

World Cup victories

singles No. date place discipline 1. October 23, 2010  Montreal 500 m 2. October 30, 2010  Quebec 500 m 3. February 12, 2011  Moscow 500 m 4th February 19, 2011  Dresden 500 m 5. February 20, 2011  Dresden 500 m 6th October 22, 2011  Salt Lake City 500 m 7th October 29, 2011  Saguenay 500 m 8th. October 30, 2011  Saguenay 1000 m 9. February 11, 2012  Dordrecht 1000 m 10. November 8, 2014  Salt Lake City 1000 m 11. November 1, 2015  Montreal 500 m 12. February 6, 2016  Dresden 1000 m 13. February 7, 2016  Dresden 500 m 14th February 13, 2016  Dordrecht 1500 m 15th November 13, 2016  Salt Lake City 500 m 16. 4th February 2017  Dresden 1000 m 17th 5th February 2017  Dresden 500 m 18th October 7, 2017  Dordrecht 500 m

Season No. date place 1. February 8, 2015  Dresden 1 1With Kim Boutin , Kasandra Bradette and Audrey Phanauf .

Personal bests

• 500 m 42.441 sec. (installed on November 13, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m 1: 28.053 min. (installed on September 16, 2012 in Calgary)
• 1500 m 2: 19.744 min. (installed on October 20, 2012 in Calgary)
• 3000 m 5: 06.264 min. (installed on March 21, 2010 in Sofia)

Web links

• Marianne St-Gelais in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)
• Marianne St-Gelais in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography at Speedskating.ca (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic hopeful loves to go fast, on and off the ice. Retrieved November 2, 2011 .