Marie-Pier Préfontaine
Marie-Pier Préfontaine 
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 Canada
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| birthday | 18th October 1988 (age 31) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts , Canada | ||||||||||
| size | 162 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg | ||||||||||
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Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination |
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| society | Saint-Sauveur | ||||||||||
| National squad | since 2005 | ||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||
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| last change: March 16, 2016 | |||||||||||
Marie-Pier Préfontaine (born October 18, 1988 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts , Québec ) is a Canadian ski racer . Their strongest discipline is the giant slalom . From December 2006 until the end of the 2015/16 season she started in the World Cup.
biography
Préfontaine played her first FIS races in December 2003 and in January 2004 she first took part in competitions in the Nor-Am Cup . A year later, with ninth place in the giant slalom of Mont Sainte-Anne, she achieved the first top 10 place in the Nor-Am Cup. At the Junior World Championships 2005 in Bardonecchia , her best result was the 26th place in the slalom.
In the 2005/06 season , Préfontaine was consistently among the top ten in the Nor-Am Cup and on January 3, achieved second place in the giant slalom of Mont Sainte-Anne, the first podium. This made her fifth in the Super G ranking, sixth in the giant slalom ranking and ninth in the overall ranking. At the Junior World Championships in 2006 in her home town of Québec, she was 27th in the downhill and giant slalom and 32nd in the Super-G and slalom.
At the end of December 2006, she took part in the slalom and giant slalom in Semmering for the first time in World Cup races, but did not make it into the second round in any of these competitions. In the 2006/07 season of the Nor-Am Cup, she achieved third place on the podium in the Super-G of Panorama and with a further four top 10 places she came under the in both the Super-G and the giant slalom best ten, although she had to end the season early at the end of January due to a knee injury.
Her first race after the injury break was the World Cup giant slalom in Panorama on November 27, 2007, in which, however, as in her two other World Cup races this winter, she did not finish. She fared better in the Nor-Am Cup, where she celebrated her first victory in the giant slalom of Mont Sainte-Anne on January 3rd, 2008 and finished third in the second giant slalom the next day. So she reached third place in the giant slalom classification in the 2007/08 season . On February 11, she was behind Larisa Yurkiw Canadian runner-up in the Super-G and two weeks later she reached ninth place in the giant slalom at the 2008 Junior World Championships in Formigal .
In the 2008/09 Nor-Am Cup season , Préfontaine achieved a second place in the giant slalom of Georgian Peaks and three other top 10 results, but in the overall standings she did not make it into the top ten in any discipline. In her three World Cup starts this winter, she was again unable to qualify for the second round in any race. In February 2009 she took part in the World Championships in Val-d'Isère and finished 35th in the giant slalom. On November 28, 2009, Préfontaine won her first World Cup points with 25th place in the giant slalom in Aspen and a few days later she won two more victories in the Nor-Am Cup at the same location. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was 29th in the giant slalom.
The Canadian achieved her best World Cup result so far on February 6, 2011 with 9th place in the giant slalom in Zwiesel . Shortly afterwards she achieved two 24th places in the giant slalom and in the Super-G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the Nor-Am Cup, she won the giant slalom classification in the 2010/11 season with five wins and a second place. In the 2011/12 season , Préfontaine achieved second place in the giant slalom and super combination rankings, again with five wins, and, as in the previous year, sixth place overall in the Nor-Am Cup.
For two seasons, Préfontaine could hardly achieve any results worth mentioning. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, she achieved a significant increase. On December 28, 2014, she finished 6th in the giant slalom in Kühtai , which was her best World Cup result. The Canadian competed in her last World Cup race on February 28, 2016 at the Super Combined in Soldeu.
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 29th giant slalom
- Sochi 2014 : 20th Super-G
World championships
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 35th giant slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 24th Super-G, 24th giant slalom
- Schladming 2013 : 28th Super-G, 28th giant slalom
- Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 2nd team competition
World cup
- 4 placements among the top ten
Nor-Am Cup
- 2005/06 season : 9th overall classification, 5th Super-G classification, 6th giant slalom classification
- 2006/07 season : 7th Super-G classification, 9th giant slalom classification
- 2007/08 season : 3rd giant slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 2nd giant slalom ranking
- 2010/11 season : 6th overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking
- Season 2011/12 : 6th overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 2nd super combination ranking, 6th Super G ranking
- 2012/13 season : 4th super combination ranking
- 2013/14 season : 6th super-G classification, 8th super combination classification
- 27 podium places, of which 15 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 3, 2008 | Mont Sainte-Anne | Canada | Giant slalom |
| November 30, 2009 | Aspen | United States | Giant slalom |
| December 1, 2009 | Aspen | United States | Giant slalom |
| December 2, 2010 | Aspen | United States | Giant slalom |
| January 3, 2011 | Sunday River | United States | Giant slalom |
| January 4, 2011 | Sunday River | United States | Giant slalom |
| March 17, 2011 | Whistler | Canada | Giant slalom |
| March 18, 2011 | Whistler | Canada | Giant slalom |
| November 30, 2011 | Aspen | United States | Giant slalom |
| December 1, 2011 | Aspen | United States | Giant slalom |
| December 11, 2011 | panorama | Canada | Super combination |
| December 12, 2011 | panorama | Canada | Super G |
| March 13, 2012 | Mont Garceau | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 17th March 2013 | Squaw Valley | United States | Giant slalom |
| December 7, 2013 | Copper Mountain | United States | Super G |
Junior World Championships
- Bardonecchia 2005 : 26th slalom, 30th giant slalom, 43rd downhill, 50th Super-G
- Québec 2006 : 11th combination, 27th downhill, 27th giant slalom, 32nd Super-G, 32nd slalom
- Formigal 2008 : 9th giant slalom, 22nd Super-G
More Achievements
- 1 Canadian championship title (giant slalom 2015)
- 1 win in the Australian New Zealand Cup
- 10 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Marie-Pier Préfontaine website (French)
- Marie-Pier Préfontaine in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Marie-Pier Préfontaine in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Marie-Pier Préfontaine in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Préfontaine, Marie-Pier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts , Canada |