Marie-Michèle Gagnon

Marie-Michèle Gagnon
Gagnon at Courchevel in 2015
Personal information
Born (1989-04-25) 25 April 1989
Lac-Etchemin, Quebec, Canada
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Skiing career
SportAlpine skiing
ClubMont Orignal
Retired2023
DisciplinesSuper-G, downhill, combined, giant slalom
World Cup debut
13 December 2008 (age 19)
Olympics
Teams3 - (2010, 2014, 2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams8 - (2009–2023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons15 - (2009–2023)
Wins2 - (2 SC)
Podiums5 - (2 SL, 2 SC, 1 SG)
Overall titles
0 - (13th in 2014)
Discipline titles
1 - (SC, 2014)[A]

Marie-Michèle Gagnon (born 25 April 1989) is a Canadian former alpine ski racer.

Career

Gagnon joined the Canadian national team at the age of eighteen, although a leg fracture halted her progress at the start of her rookie season.[1] She made her World Cup debut in December 2008 and has represented Canada at two Winter Olympics and six World Championships.

Gagnon's first World Cup podium came in March 2012, a third-place in a slalom at Åre, Sweden.[2][3] Her first victory was in January 2014, a combined event at Altenmarkt, Austria.[4] which was the first podium for a Canadian in a World Cup combined event in thirty years.[5] The previous day she scored her first World Cup points in downhill at the same venue.[6] That season she also took her first top ten World Cup finishes in super-G, finishing tenth and sixth in races in Lake Louise and St. Moritz respectively.[7] At the Winter Olympics, Gagnon crashed out of the slalom run of the combined, dislocating her shoulder,[8] before failing to finish the super-G and giant slalom, and securing a ninth place in the slalom. She finished thirteenth in the overall World Cup standings and sixth in slalom.[6]

In January 2022, Gagnon was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[9][10]

Personal life

Gagnon was the third of five siblings and left the family home at age twelve to pursue her education and ski racing in Mont-Sainte-Anne and Quebec City. Her childhood idols included Mélanie Turgeon, Geneviève Simard, and Erik Guay.[1]

Gagnon has been in a relationship with American alpine racer Travis Ganong since 2008.[5][11] The pair met through mutual friend Louis-Pierre Hélie;[1] in 2014, the couple moved to a new home in Lake Tahoe, California.[7][6] They became engaged at the Matterhorn on 15 September 2021.[12] They married in July 2024.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
2014Combined A
A Crystal globes in combined were not awarded during these seasons, but medals were.[13]

Season standings

SeasonAge Overall  Slalom Giant
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200919733335———
20102010343————
20112129221649—15
20122221102644—12
20132321172332—4
2014241361919511
20152528113431—5
20162616111444—4
201727201316——21
201828863837———
20192946—2423—13
20203063—49373027
20213124——1116N/a
20223236——2618
20233362——2233
Standings through 5 February 2023

Race podiums

  • 2 wins – (2 SC)
  • 5 podiums – (2 SL, 2 SC, 1 SG); 61 top tens
Season Date Location Discipline Place
201210 Mar 2012Sweden Åre, SwedenSlalom3rd
201412 Jan 2014Austria Altenmarkt, AustriaSuper combined1st
201615 Feb 2016 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandSlalom3rd
28 Feb 2016Andorra Soldeu, AndorraSuper combined1st
202130 Jan 2021Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanySuper-G3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200919DNF1DNF1———
201121DNF12322—DNF2
201323138———
2015251023DNF—DNF1
201727202019—6
2019 29 — 23 21 32 14
202131——613DNF2
202333——26 10

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2010203121———
2014249DNF1DNF—DNF2
201828Injured in November, missed rest of season
202232——148—

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bossé, Olivier (18 November 2017). "Marie-Michèle Gagnon: le feu de l'effort" [Marie-Michèle Gagnon: the fire of the effort]. Le Soleil (Quebec) (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Williams, Eric (10 March 2012). "Hoefl-Riesch regains slalom from with win in Are, Gagnon first podium in third". Ski Racing. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Bouzane, Bradley (10 March 2012). "Marie-Michele Gagnon wins first World Cup medal". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  4. ↑ FIS Alpine (12 January 2014). "Altenmarkt – Super Combined". Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 Reguly, Eric (9 February 2014). "Canada's Gagnon draws inspiration from boyfriend's run ahead of alpine Olympic debut". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 Drouin, Simon (31 March 2014). "Changement de cap pour Marie-Michèle Gagnon" [Change of course for Marie-Michèle Gagnon]. La Presse (Canadian newspaper) (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  7. 1 2 Gilbert, Manon (15 October 2014). "Le virage de Marie-Michèle Gagnon" [The turn of Marie-Michèle Gagnon]. Radio-Canada.ca (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  8. ↑ Young, Leslie (10 February 2014). "Skier Marie-Michèle Gagnon dislocates shoulder, still plans to compete". globalnews.ca. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  9. ↑ Nichols, Paula (21 January 2022). "13 alpine skiers and eight ski cross racers nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022". olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "21 Alpine Skiing and Ski Cross Athletes Nominated to Compete at Beijing 2022". alpinecanada.org. Alpine Canada. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Das WM-Liebespaar: Gagnon und Ganong" [The World Championship lovers: Gagnon and Ganong]. Kleine Zeitung (in German). 15 February 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  12. ↑ "Gagnon & Ganong: The tongue twister couple in the ski circus". News Read Online. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "Skiing to revive super-combined". ESPN. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
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