Tania Vicent

Tania Vicent
nation	Canada
birthday	January 13, 1976
place of birth	Laval, Quebec
size	168 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
society	Laval Fabreville
Trainer	Sébastien Cros, Martin Gagné
National squad	Since 1993
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 6 × 10 ×
winter Olympics bronze Nagano 1998 Season bronze Salt Lake City 2002 Season silver Turin 2006 Season silver Vancouver 2010 Season  Short track world championships bronze Gjøvik 1995 Season bronze Zoetermeer 1995 team bronze Bormio 1998 team silver St. Louis 1999 team bronze Sheffield 2000 Season bronze Minamimaki 2001 team bronze Montreal 2002 Season bronze Milwaukee 2002 team silver Warsaw 2003 Season gold Beijing 2005 Season bronze Chuncheon 2005 team silver Minneapolis 2006 Season bronze Montreal 2006 team silver Gangneung 2008 Season bronze Harbin 2008 team silver Sofia 2010 Season silver Bormio 2010 team
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1998  1000 m world cup 8. ( 00/01 ); 8. ( 05/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Relay / team 0 2 5
last change: January 24, 2012

Tania Vicent (born January 13, 1976 in Laval ) is a former Canadian short tracker . She started at four consecutive Olympic Games and won a medal in the relay competition every time she participated. At world championships she was also successful in relay and team competitions and won a total of 17 medals, including a world champion title.

Vicent started speed skating and short track at the age of ten . She started for the Laval Fabreville club and trained under Sébastien Cros and Martin Gagné at the performance center in Montreal . She was part of the Canadian national team since 1993.

Vicent celebrated her first international success at the 1995 World Cup in Gjøvik , where she won bronze in the relay. In the same year she also achieved bronze at the team world championship in Zoetermeer . In the 1997/98 season Vicent made his debut in the World Cup. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Nagano . Over 500 m and 1000 m she retired early, but with the relay she won her first Olympic medal with bronze. By her second participation in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , Vicent won five other World Championship medals in relay and team competitions, four in bronze, one in silver. At the Olympics, Vicent started this time only in the relay competition, where she again won bronze with the relay.

Their first and only title win at an international championship reached Vicent at the 2005 World Cup in Beijing . She won the gold medal with the relay. In 2006 she took part in the Olympic Games in Turin for the third time . Over 1000 m she reached the final and was fourth, with the relay she won the silver medal.

In total, Vicent won 17 medals at world championships by the time she retired, nine with the Canadian team and eight with the relay. Her best World Championship result in an individual race was fifth in the all-around event at the 2001 World Championship in Jeonju . She also came fourth over 1500 m.

She took part in the Olympic Games in Vancouver for the fourth time . Over 1000 m she reached the quarter-finals, over 1500 m the semi-finals and with the relay she again won silver and thus a medal in the fourth attempt. After the Games, Vicent ended her active career.

Web links

• Tania Vicent in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Tania Vicent in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Laval welcomes Olympic silver medalist Tania Vicent home. (PDF; 15.6 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 24, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.