Samuel Girard (short tracker)

Samuel Girard
Samuel Girard at the 2015 Short Track World Championships in Moscow
nation	Canada
birthday	26th June 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Ferland-et-Boilleau , Canada
Career
status	resigned
End of career	May 25, 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 5 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang 1000 m bronze 2018 Pyeongchang 5000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 2016 Seoul 1000 m silver 2016 Seoul 5000 m relay silver 2017 Rotterdam 1500 m bronze 2017 Rotterdam All-around silver 2018 Montreal 5000 m relay silver 2019 Sofia 1500 m  Short track junior world championships silver 2014 Erzurum 500 m silver 2014 Erzurum 1500 m superfinal
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup November 8, 2014  World Cup victories 10 (including 5 individual wins)  500 m world cup 3. ( 2015/16 , 2017/18 , 2018/19 )  1000 m world cup 5. (2017/18)  1500 m world cup 8. (2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 4th 0 1  1000 meters 0 2 2  1500 meters 1 0 0  Relay / team 5 5 3
last change: March 19, 2019

Samuel Girard (born June 26, 1996 in Ferland-et-Boilleau ) is a former Canadian short tracker .

Career

Girard had his first international success at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Erzurum . There he won the 500 m and the silver medal in the 1500 m superfinal. In the World Cup , he started in Salt Lake City for the first time at the beginning of the 2014/15 season , finishing tenth over 500 m and fifth over 1500 m. In the further course of the season he achieved his first podium positions in the World Cup with third place at the World Cup in Shanghai and second place in Seoul, each with the relay over 5000 m. His best placings at the 2015 World Championships in Moscow were 18th place over 1500 m and seventh place with the relay over 5000 m. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he came on the podium for the first time in an individual at the World Cup in Montreal with third place in the 1000 m. In the further course of the season he reached eight top ten positions in the individual World Cup, including third place over 500 m in Shanghai. He was also third in the relay in Shanghai and second in the relay in Dresden . In Toronto he won over 1000 m and with the relay his first World Cup victories. At the season highlight, the 2016 World Championships in Seoul, he won the 1000 m and the silver medal with the relay. He finished the season in seventh place in the World Cup over 1000 m and third place in the World Cup over 500 m. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he won the 500 m in Calgary and also finished third in the 1000 m there. At the following World Cup in Salt Lake City, he triumphed over 1500 m. This was followed by three top ten results in the world cup singles and second place in the relay in Gangneung and thus fifth place in the world cup over 500 m. At the 2017 World Championships in Rotterdam , he won the bronze medal in the all-around event and the silver medal in the 1500 m. In the 2017/18 World Cup season he won in Budapest with the relay and in Dordrecht over 500 m and with the relay. He was also second in Dordrecht over 1000 m and third in Shanghai with the relay and in Seoul over 1000 m. He took eighth place in the World Cup over 1500 m, fifth place in the World Cup over 1000 m and third place in the World Cup over 500 m. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Girard won the gold medal over 1000 m. With the relay he won the bronze medal over 5000 m. In March 2018 he won the silver medal with the relay at the World Championships in Montreal.

In the 2018/19 season Girard won in Almaty over 500 m and in Dresden with the relay and took second place in Almaty with the relay. He also triumphed in Almaty with the mixed relay and ran in Turin to second place with the mixed relay. At the end of the season he reached third place in the 500 m World Cup. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , he won the silver medal over 1500 m. In the all-around competition he was fourth there and sixth with the season.

On May 25, 2019, he ended his career due to motivation problems.

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 7, 2015	Toronto	500 m
2.	4th November 2016	Calgary	500 m
3.	November 12, 2016	Salt Lake City	1500 m
4th	October 7, 2017	Dordrecht	500 m
5.	December 9, 2018	Almaty	500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	November 8, 2015	Toronto 1
2.	October 1, 2017	Budapest 2
3.	October 8, 2017	Dordrecht 2
4th	December 9, 2018	Almaty 3
5.	3rd February 2019	Dresden 2

¹With Charle Cournoyer , Charles Hamelin and Patrick Duffy .

²With Charles Hamelin, Charle Cournoyer and Pascal Dion .

³With Cédrik Blais , Kim Boutin and Alyson Charles .

Personal bests

• 500 m 39.987 sec. (installed on February 22, 2018 in Gangneung)
• 1000 m 1: 23.192 min. (installed on August 20, 2017 in Montreal)
• 1500 m 2: 09.723 min. (installed on November 12, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 4: 48.550 min. (installed on March 12, 2017 in Rotterdam)

Web links

• Samuel Girard at ISU
• Samuel Girard on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic champion Girard ended his career at the age of 22. sport.orf.at, May 25, 2019, accessed on May 25, 2019 .