Laurence St-Germain (born 30 May 1994) is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer, and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. She made her World Cup debut in November 2015, and is the current world champion in slalom.
_(cropped).jpg) St-Germain in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 May 1994 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Slalom, giant slalom | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Mont-Sainte-Anne University of Vermont | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut |
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| Olympics | |||||||||||||||
| Teams | 2 – (2018, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (2019–2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 9 – (2016–2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (30th in 2021) | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (8th in SL, 2021) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editFrom Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Quebec, St-Germain competed for Canada at the Junior World Championships in 2013; she was 25th in the slalom but failed to finish the second run of the giant slalom on home snow at Mont-Sainte-Anne.[1][2] She made her World Cup debut in November 2015 in slalom at Aspen, and was 27th.[3] She scored her first World Cup points in November 2017 at Levi with a 17th-place finish in the slalom.[4]
St-Germain made her Olympic debut in 2018, and was 15th in the slalom.[5] At her first World Championships in 2019, she was sixth in the slalom.
St-Germain raced collegiately in the United States for the Catamounts of the University of Vermont, just over the border in Burlington; she was a three-time All-American and the national runner-up in the slalom in 2016.[6][7]
In January 2022, St-Germain was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[8][9]
At the 2023 World Championships in Méribel, St-Germain won the gold medal in the slalom.[10] She was the first Canadian woman in 63 years to win an alpine skiing world championship.[11]
World Cup results
editSeason standings
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| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| 2016 | 21 | no World Cup points | ||||||
| 2017 | 22 | |||||||
| 2018 | 23 | 90 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | 42 | 13 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2020 | 25 | 48 | 18 | — | — | — | — | 11 |
| 2021 | 26 | 30 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | 52 | 15 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2023 | 28 | 47 | 14 | — | — | — | — | |
- Standings through 11 March 2023
Top ten finishes
edit- 0 podiums; 14 top tens
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| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2019 | 29 Dec 2018 |  Semmering, Austria
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Slalom | 10th |
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| 19 Feb 2019 |  Stockholm, Sweden
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Parallel slalom | 6th | |
| 2020 | 15 Dec 2019 |  St. Moritz, Switzerland
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Parallel slalom | 5th |
| 29 Dec 2019 | Lienz, Austria
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Slalom | 9th | |
| 14 Jan 2020 | Flachau, Austria
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Slalom | 10th | |
| 2021 | 21 Nov 2020 |  Levi, Finland
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Slalom | 6th |
| 20 Dec 2020 | Slalom | 8th | ||
| 12 Jan 2021 | Flachau, Austria
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Slalom | 8th | |
| 6 Mar 2021 |  Jasná, Slovakia
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Slalom | 10th | |
| 2022 | 29 Dec 2021 | Lienz, Austria
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Slalom | 9th |
| 11 Jan 2022 | Schladming, Austria
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Slalom | 8th | |
| 2023 | 20 Nov 2022 | Levi, Finland
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Slalom | 9th |
| 29 Jan 2023 |  Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic
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Slalom | 7th | |
| 11 Mar 2023 | Åre, Sweden
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Slalom | 5th |
World Championship results
edit| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
| 2019 | 24 | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | 17 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results
edit| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
| 2018 | 23 | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | 17 | — | — | — | — |
References
edit- ^ "FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Ladies' Slalom 21.02.2013". data.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Ladies' Giant slalom 22.02.2013". data.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "FIS World Cup - Ladies' Slalom 28.11.2015". data.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "FIS World Cup - Ladies' Slalom 11.11.2017". data.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Athletes, Medals & Results". Olympics.com. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Laurence St. Germain and Kevin Drury to Represent Canada in Winter Olympics". University of Vermont.
- ^ "UVM Athletics". uvmathletics.com.
- ^ Nichols, Paula (21 January 2022). "13 alpine skiers and eight ski cross racers nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "21 Alpine Skiing and Ski Cross Athletes Nominated to Compete at Beijing 2022". www.alpinecanada.org/. Alpine Canada. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Canadian skier St-Germain beats Shiffrin to slalom gold". www.ctvnews.ca/. CTV News. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ St-Germain, Laurence (10 November 2023). "My perfectly strange world championship win". CBC Sports. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
External links
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- Laurence St-Germain at FIS (alpine)
- Laurence St-Germain at Olympics.com
- Laurence St-Germain at Olympedia
- Laurence St-Germain at Team Canada
- Laurence St-Germain at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Laurence St-Germain at Alpine Canada
- Laurence St-Germain at University of Vermont Athletics
