Marie-Claude Asselin

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Marie-Claude Asselin Freestyle skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 1962 (age 58)
place of birth Montréal , Canada
size 163 cm
Weight 55 kg
job Sports official
Career
discipline Aerials, moguls, ballet,
combination
society Mont Gabriel Freestyle Ski Club
status resigned
End of career January 1984
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 17th January 1981
 World Cup victories 35
 Overall World Cup 1. (1980/81, 1981/82)
 Aerials World Cup 1. (1980/81, 1981/82,
1982/83)
 Mughal World Cup 4. (1980/81)
 Ballet World Cup 4. (1980/81)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1980/81, 1981/82,
1982/83)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 17th 6th 0
 Moguls 1 3 1
 ballet 0 0 2
 combination 17th 4th 1
 

Marie-Claude Asselin (* 1962 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian freestyle skier . She started in all disciplines and had her strengths in aerials (jumping). Asselin won the overall Freestyle World Cup twice, as well as six discipline classifications and 35 individual competitions before ending her career at the age of 21.

biography

Athletic career

Marie-Claude Asselin comes from Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and started skiing at the age of seven. During her career she started for the Mont Gabriel Freestyle Ski Club and was trained by John Eaves .

Asselin was accepted into the Canadian youth team in 1977 and in the same year won her first of two national junior championship titles in the freestyle combination. After further successes in the youth field, she made her debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in January 1981 . After finishing her first three competitions, ballet , aerials and combination in Livigno , all on the podium, she won the fourth competition on the mogul slope in Tignes . With ten further victories in her debut season, she immediately won the overall World Cup and also won the discipline rankings in aerials and combinations.

In the winter of 1981/82 she was able to continue her dominance and again won three crystal balls with 14 wins this season. In her two weaker disciplines, ballet and moguls, she fell slightly behind the respective specialists. A year later she won aerial and combined rankings for the third time, but had to admit defeat to Swiss Conny Kissling in the overall World Cup despite another ten wins . Asselin played her last World Cup in January 1984 at the age of 21. With her 35 World Cup victories, she set an early record in freestyle skiing, which was only exceeded a few years later by Jan Bucher and Kissling.

Further career

Asselin remained loyal to the sport after the end of her career. In 1985 she founded the Circuit Mini-Bosses to bring children up to the age of eleven closer to competition on the mogul slope. In 1991 she earned a Masters Degree in Sports Science from Laval University in Québec . She also completed training as a commercial helicopter pilot. From 1988 she was a member of the organizing committee for the World Cup at Mont Gabriel, in February of the same year she commented on the Winter Olympics in Calgary for TVA . After holding positions in the Canadian Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency , she has been CEO of the Sport Dispute Resolution Center of Canada (SDRCC), a state-subsidized dispute settlement body for top Canadian athletes, since 2007 .

Marie-Claude Asselin is the mother of two sons.

successes

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials Moguls ballet combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1980/81 1. 138 1. 46 4th 31 4th 31 1. 30th
1981/82 1. 127 1. 48 6th 27 6th 22nd 1. 30th
1982/83 2. 34 1. 48 5. 32 7th 31 1. 32
1983/84 38. 1 - - 18th 4th - - - -

World Cup victories

Asselin achieved 52 podium places in the World Cup, including 35 victories:

date place country discipline
January 22, 1981 Tignes France Moguls
January 24, 1981 Tignes France Aerials
January 24, 1981 Tignes France combination
1st February 1981 Laax Switzerland Aerials
3rd February 1981 Laax Switzerland combination
February 9, 1981 Seefeld Austria combination
February 15, 1981 Oberjoch Germany Aerials
February 15, 1981 Oberjoch Germany combination
March 1, 1981 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada Aerials
March 18, 1981 Mount Norquay Canada combination
March 18, 1981 Mount Norquay Canada combination
January 10, 1982 Blackcomb Canada combination
January 10, 1982 Blackcomb Canada Aerials
17th January 1982 Calgary Canada Aerials
January 31, 1982 Morin Heights Canada Aerials
4th February 1982 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada combination
February 7, 1982 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada Aerials
February 7, 1982 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada combination
February 28, 1982 Sella Nevea Italy combination
February 28, 1982 Sella Nevea Italy Aerials
March 7, 1982 Adelboden Switzerland combination
March 7, 1982 Adelboden Switzerland Aerials
March 21, 1982 Oberjoch Germany combination
March 26, 1982 Tignes France Aerials
March 26, 1982 Tignes France combination
January 21, 1983 Tignes France Aerials
January 21, 1983 Tignes France combination
January 22, 1983 Tignes France Aerials
4th February 1983 Livigno Italy combination
4th February 1983 Livigno Italy Aerials
February 13, 1983 Ravascletto Italy combination
February 13, 1983 Ravascletto Italy Aerials
February 19, 1983 Angel Fire United States Aerials
February 19, 1983 Angel Fire United States Aerials
February 19, 1983 Angel Fire United States combination

More Achievements

  • 7 Canadian championship titles in combination
  • North America Freestyle Champion 1980
  • Canadian junior champion in combined 1977 and 1978

Awards

  • 1981: Canadian Francophone Athlete of the Year
  • 1982: Sport Excellence Award
  • 1983: Canadian Athlete of the Year U20
  • 1983: Elaine Tanner Trophy (Canada's Female Athlete of the Year)
  • 1991: Induction into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame
  • 1992: Induction into the Laurentian Ski Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marie-Claude Asselin is freestyling to fame. In: The Windsor Star , January 17, 1981 issue, p. 79.
  2. ↑ a b Marie-Claude Asselin. Musée du Ski des Laurentides, accessed on April 12, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Marie-Claude Asselin. Freestyle Canada, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Marie-Claude Asselin. (PDF) The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Personnel. Sport Dispute Resolution Center of Canada, accessed April 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Asselin, Marie-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal