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Karen Paquin
Date of birth (1987-08-03) August 3, 1987 (age 37)
Place of birthQuebec City, Quebec
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
WeightTemplate:Unit weight
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loose Forward
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Club de Rugby de Québec ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Canada

Medal record
Women's rugby union
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2014 France
Women's rugby sevens
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Team

Karen Paquin (born August 3, 1987) is a Canadian rugby union player.[1]

International play

She represented Canada at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.[2][3] She was a member of Canada's women's sevens team that were runners-up at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia.[4]

She won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team.[1][5][6]

In 2016, Paquin was named to Canada's first ever women's rugby sevens Olympic team.[7]

Personal

She studied chemical engineering at Université Laval.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Karen Paquin". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  2. ^ Ben Kerr (June 30, 2014). "Canada's Roster Announced for Women's Rugby World Cup". lastwordonsports.com. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Bryan Kelly (July 31, 2014). "Canada roster announced for Women's World Cup opener vs France". Rugby Canada Communications (BC Rugby.com). Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Squad Lists With RWC Totals" (PDF). rwcsevens.com. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 19, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Canada's rugby sevens teams take gold". The Canadian Press. July 12, 2015. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Karen Paquin". Toronto2015.org. 2015 Pan American Games. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  7. ^ MacDonnell, Beth (July 8, 2016). "Historic first Canadian women selected for Olympic rugby at Rio 2016". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 10, 2016. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  8. ^ "Les étoiles du rugby universitaire féminin dévoilées". RSEQ. October 28, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
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