Maxime Boilard (sometimes listed as Maxim Boilard, born June 26, 1978) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s through 2004. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec. His career highlight was a fourth-place finish in the C-1 500 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He also won two silver medals in the C-4 1000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2002 and 2003. He was a silver medalist in the C-2 500 m event at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.[1]
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Since his paddling career ended, Boilard has become a successful businessperson in Quebec, founding CANU, a company that supports corporate leadership development. In 2008 and 2012, Boilard served as a French-language analyst for Radio Canada and Reseau des Sports at the Olympic Games, covering canoe-kayak and rowing.[2] In 2008, he was selected as a member of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Results Day 2". Canoe.ca. Slam! Sports. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "DUTCHYSHEN, ONRAIT, O'TOOLE JOIN 2012 OLYMPIC BROADCAST TEAM". TSN.ca. TSN. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "Members by Home Province/Territory - Québec". leadershipcanada.ca. The Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference. Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Sports-reference.com profile
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