Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | March 3, 1983 Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, |
| Sport | |
| Country | Canada |
| Event | Synchronized swimming |
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Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon (born March 3, 1983 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian synchronized swimmer from Montreal. She is currently swimming on Canada's National "A" Team, where the team has been centralized to the National Training Centre – Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal. Marie-Pier represented Canada in solo at the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal.
She first became interested in synchronized swimming at the age of seven after watching Sylvie Fréchette on television. The sport opened a whole new world for Marie-Pier and led her to believe that determination and passion are the route to success. She has been a member of Synchro Canada's national team since 1998.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won two gold medals, in the Free routine solo and Free routine duet (with Isabelle Rampling).
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she finished in sixth place with partner Isabelle Rampling in the women's duet.[1]
References
http://www.synchro.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=33
External links
- 1983 births
- Canadian synchronized swimmers
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- French Quebecers
- Living people
- Olympic synchronized swimmers of Canada
- People from Rivière-du-Loup
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada