Dominique Maltais
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| Born | November 9, 1980 Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72.5 kg (160 lb; 11.42 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.dominiquemaltais.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada |
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| Sport | Snowboard cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dominique Maltais (born November 9, 1980) is a Canadian snowboarder with her specialty in snowboard cross. Born in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec. She is a firefighter in her professional career.
[edit] Snowboarding career
Maltais started competing in 2002, and won the Canadian Championship in 2003 and again in 2004. Internationally, she came 5th in the World Cup during her rookie year (2003–04) with 2 podium finishes that year. In her second year (2004–05), she won the European Cup and came in 8th in the World Cup. During that World Cup she had two podium finishes, including her first gold. In the 2005 World Championships, Maltais finished 4th, letting her set her sights on an Olympic medal in Turin in 2006, the first time Snowboard Cross would be contested at the Winter Olympics.
In Turin, Maltais was in a final of four with fellow Canadian Maëlle Ricker. Ricker fell in the early stages, and Maltais crashed out of a corner farther down. After the other two racers (Tanja Frieden and Lindsey Jacobellis) finished, Maltais was able to get up and finish the race, earning her the bronze. Dominique had a disappointing 2010 Winter Olympics falling in both of her qualifying runs and therefore did not qualify for the finals.[1]
Maltais followed a disappointing Olympics with a successful start to the 2010–11 FIS Snowboard World Cup leading the World Cup snowboard cross category heading into the 2011 World Snowboarding Championships. There she managed to take third place for the bronze medal.[2] At the XVI Winter X Games Maltais won her first medal which came as the gold and X Games champion in 2012. She had followed this with several successes on the World Cup tour that year, including a home nation victory at Blue Mountain.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Fog delays women's snowboard cross". CBC News. 16 February 2010. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/snowboarding/story/2010/02/16/spo-weather-wom-snowboard-cross.html. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ^ "Maltais takes bronze in snowboard cross at worlds". CBC News. January 18, 2011. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/story/2011/01/18/sp-fis-snowboard-worlds.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "Canadian Maltais wins snowboard cross gold, Ricker 3rd". CBC Sports. February 8, 2012. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2012/02/08/sp-snowboardcross-maltais-gold.html.
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