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Name: Marie-Hélène Prémont

Hometown: Chateau Richer, QC

Date of Birth: October 24, 1977

Member of Canadian National Team since: 2000

Member of Rocky Mountain Team since: 2004

2012 Bio photo by Patrice Belle-Isle Marie was a Canadian National Team snowboarder, she started competitive cycling in 1995. She has steadily worked her way up through the ranks in Quebec Cup, Canada Cup and World Cup races, capturing her first Elite Women Canadian Championship in 2003 and holding that National Champion jersey until 2009. She won two consecutive Pan American Championships 2000-2001. She won an Olympic silver medal at Athens in 2004, raising her profile and showing all of Canada that huge smile that was already well known in the mountain bike racing community.

She had her first World Cup gold medal at Spa Francorchamps in 2005 followed up by another gold medal at her home race at Mont Sainte Anne in Quebec that same year. She dominated the 2006 Commonwealth Games race in Melbourne, despite little distractions like having a 6' tall kangaroo leap across the trail in front of her on the way to a gold medal. In 2006 Marie won gold medals in World Cup races at Mont Sainte Anne and at Schladming in Austria. Marie finished the 2007 World Cup season in second overall.

Marie had a great 2008 season with her 6th National Championship and in the World Cup had two gold, three silver and three bronze medals and secured the World Cup series first place after eight of the nine races of the 2008 season. She was the only woman to win a medal in every World Cup race she entered.

2009 had its own challenges for Marie as she struggled with sporadic breathing difficulties since Beijing in 2008. She had significant breathing problems at the World Cup race in Bromont which led to being diagnosed with exercise induced asthma in early August. Since then, Marie has been adapting to the additional challenges of competing at a high level with asthma.

The 2010 season was a combination of strong performance and bad luck, with a mechanical DNF in Houffalize combined with a 4th place in Offenburg and a silver medal at Windham, NY, and then she missed the Canadian Nationals in Canmore due to severe bronchitis.

Marie had one goal for 2011; finish in the top 5 in the World Cup series, and she did, finishing 4th overall in the World Cup series at the final race in Val di Sole, making 2011 the best World Cup season since 2008.

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PALMARES

UCI World Cup, Canada Cup, Quebec Cup, Canadian National Championships finishes from 1997-2011. Medal finishes marked in bold.

2011

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5th in US Pro XCT #2, Fontana, California
9th UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1 Pietermaritzburg, RSA (Interview)
11th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Dalby Forest, UK
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Offenburg, Germany (Interview)
5th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec (Interview)
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Windham, New York (Interview)
2nd in National Championship MTB, Canmore, AB (Interview)
9th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Nove Mesto Na Morave, CR
11th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#7, Val di Sole, Italy (Interview)
4th in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB
9th in UCI World Championships, Champéry, Switzerland

2010

8th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Dalby Forest, UK (Interview)
DNF in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Houffalize, Belgium (mechanical)
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Offenburg, Germany
DNS in National Championship MTB, Canmore, AB (bronchitis)
13th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Champéry, Switzerland
8th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Val di Sole, Italy (Interview)
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Windham, New York. (Interview)
8th in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB
9th in UCI World Championships, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
14th in Pro Women, XTERRA Off Road Triathlon World Championships, Maui, Hawaii

2009

No Entry in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1 Pietermaritzburg, RSA
14th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Offenburg, Germany (Interview)
6th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Houffalize, Belgium
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Madrid, Spain (Interview) (Race hilights)
2nd in National Championship MTB, Saint Félicien, Quebec
10th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
13th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6 Bromont, Quebec
12th in UCI World Championships, Canberra, Australia
11th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#7, Champéry, Switzerland
5th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#8, Schladming, Austria (Interview)
6th in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB
12th in Pro Women, XTERRA Off Road Triathlon World Championships, Maui, Hawaii

2008

3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Houffalize, Belgium (Interview)
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Offenburg, Germany (Interview)
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Madrid, Spain (Interview)
3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Vallnord, Andorra (Interview)
1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Fort William, Scotland (Interview)
4th in UCI World Championships, Val di Sole, Italy (Interview)
1st in National Championship MTB, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec (Interview)
1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec (Interview)
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#7 Bromont, Quebec
DNF Beijing Olympics (asthma)
No Entry in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#8 Canberra, Australia
3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#9, Schladming, Austria (Interview)
1st in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB

2007

6th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Houffalize, Belgium
1st in Canada Cup MTB XC#1, Elite Women, Baie-St-Paul, QC
1st in Canada Cup MTB XC#2, Elite Women, Bromont, QC
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Offenburg, Germany
3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Champéry, Switzerland
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Saint Félicien, Quebec
1st in National Championship MTB, Mt. Washington, BC
4th in UCI World Championships MTB, Fort William, Scotland
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Maribor, Slovenia
2nd in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB

2006

4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Curacao
1st in Commonwealth Games, MTB, Melbourne, Australia
10th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Madrid, Spain (More details)
3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Fort William, Scotland
1st in Canada Cup MTB XC#3, Elite Women, Hardwood Hills, ON
1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
1st in Canada Cup MTB XC#4, Elite Women, Whistler, BC
1st in National Championship MTB, Sun Peaks Resort, BC
3rd in UCI World Championship, MTB, XC Elite Women, Rotorua, NZ
1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Schladming, Austria
2nd in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB

2005

1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
1st in Canada Cup MTB XC#1, Elite Women, Bromont, QC
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Madrid, Spain
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Houffalize, Belgium
3rd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Willingen, Germany
1st in National Championship MTB, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
1st in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
no entry in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#7, Angel Fire Resort, USA
4th in UCI World Championships MTB, Livigno, Italy
DNF in UCI World Cup MTB, XCO#8 Fort William, Scotland (food poisoning)
3rd in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB

2004

1st in Women's Biker Cross-K, Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC
10th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#1, Madrid, Spain
6th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#2, Houffalize, Belgium
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#3, Fort William, Scotland
no entry in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#4, Schladming, Austria
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#5, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
1st in National Championship MTB, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
4th in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#6, Calgary, Alberta
2nd in Olympic Games, MTB, Athens, Greece (Race Video parts I, II, III, IV)
4th in UCI World Championships MTB, Les Gets, France
2nd in UCI World Cup MTB XCO#7, Livigno, Italy
2nd in UCI World Cup series overall, Elite Women MTB