Shelley Gautier

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Shelley Gautier Road cycling
Shelley Gautier (2016)
Shelley Gautier (2016)
To person
Date of birth October 31, 1968
nation CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Street (T1)
Most important successes
Paralympics
2016 Bronze medal Paralympics.svg - individual time trial
Last updated: January 19, 2018

Shelley Gautier (born October 31, 1968 in Niagara Falls ) is a Canadian paracycler .

biography

Private and professional

Shelley Gautier is a physiotherapist by profession . In 2001 she had an accident with her mountain bike and suffered severe head injuries. She was in a coma for six weeks and has been paralyzed on one side since then. A year after her accident, she started cycling again. In 2007 she trained 50 kilometers a day.

Athletic career

Shelley Gaultier starts on a tricycle in class T1 and was one of the first female athletes in this performance class. In 2009 she won her first world championship medal in road racing. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , she took bronze in the individual time trial . Up to and including 2018 she was in road races and time trials 16 times.

Honors (selection) and commitment

In 2015 Gaultier was nominated for the Laureus Award for the World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability . In 2014 and 2015 she was named Female Cyclist of the Year by the Ontario Cycling Association . She was one of the torch bearers at the Parapan American Games 2015 . In 2015, Gautier was inducted into the newly formed Toronto Sports Hall of Honor . In a ranking by the Canadian Cycling Magazine website , she was ranked fifth among the top ten Canadian cyclists of the 2010s.

She founded the Shelley Gautier Para-Sport Foundation to support disabled people in sports.

successes

2009
2010
2011
  • World Champion World Champion - road race, individual time trial
  • silver Parapan Am Games - Individual Time Trial
2013
2014
2015
  • World Champion World Champion - road race, individual time trial
  • silver Parapan Am Games - Individual Time Trial
2016
2017
2018

Web links

Commons : Shelley Gautier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todd Aalgaard: Shelley Gautier Recognized As the Toronto Sports Hall of Honor's Female Athlete of the Year with a Disability for 2015. In: Canadian Cycling Magazine. February 26, 2016, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Top 10 Canadian cyclists of the decade. In: Canadian Cycling Magazine. December 13, 2019, accessed June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Canadian para-cyclist hopes to inspire other people with disabilities to get active. In: CBC News. December 21, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gautier, Shelley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian paracycler
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Niagara Falls