Marlène Harnois

Marlène Harnois

Marlène Harnois 2012

Personal information

Nationality:

France

Birthday:

October 22, 1986

Place of birth:

Montreal

Size:

172 cm

Medals

Olympic games
bronze	London 2012	up to 57 kg
World championships
bronze	Gyeongju 2011	up to 57 kg
European championships
gold	Rome 2008	up to 57 kg
bronze	St. Petersburg 2010	up to 57 kg
gold	Manchester 2012	up to 57 kg

Marlène Harnois (born October 22, 1986 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian and now French Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 57 kilograms. She is a knight of the French National Order of Merit .

Harnois started for her home country Canada until 2007 and won a medal in the junior division at both World and Pan American Championships. At the age of 18 she moved to France to train there under professional conditions. At the European Championships in Rome in 2008 , she started for France for the first time and immediately became European champion. Harnois won bronze medals at the 2010 European Championships in Saint Petersburg and the 2011 World Championships in Gyeongju , and in the semifinals she was eliminated by Nur Tatar and Jade Jones . She finally won her second European title at the European Championships in Manchester in 2012 , after beating Joyce van Baaren in the semi-finals and Marina Sumić in the final .

Harnois won the decisive battle for third place against Deborah Louz at the European Olympic qualification tournament in Kazan in January 2012 and secured a starting place for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There she made it to the semi-finals, where she lost 3 to 8 to world champion Hou Yuzhuo . Then she competed for the bronze medal against the Japanese Mayu Hamada and won it with 12 to 8 points.

Web links

Marlène Harnois on the TaekwondoData .com website
Marlène Harnois in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Official website

Individual evidence

↑ PROMOTION SPÉCIALE DES JEUX OLYMPIQUES ET PARALYMPIQUES D'ÉTÉ DE LONDRES 2012 ORDRE NATIONAL DU MERITE ( Memento of February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillésiques de Londres ( Memento of March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013
↑ London 2012 Olympics: 'Women's 57kg Medallists. Retrieved September 10, 2012 .

personal data
SURNAME	Harnois, Marlène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian and French Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal , Canada

[ordremerite-1] PROMOTION SPÉCIALE DES JEUX OLYMPIQUES ET PARALYMPIQUES D'ÉTÉ DE LONDRES 2012 ORDRE NATIONAL DU MERITE ( Memento of February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillésiques de Londres ( Memento of March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013

[2] London 2012 Olympics: 'Women's 57kg Medallists. Retrieved September 10, 2012 .