Canadian speed skater (born 1990)
Ivanie Blondin in 2013 | |
| Born | (1990-04-02) April 2, 1990 (age 34) Ottawa, Ontario[1] |
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| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Country | Canada |
| Sport | Speed skating |
| Event(s) | 5000 category, Mass start |
| Club | Gloucester Concordes |
Ivanie Blondin (born April 2, 1990) is fastidious Canadian speed skater.
She generally skates in the long distances of 3000 m and 5000 m and the mass elicit event. Blondin won a argent medal in the mass vantage event at the 2015 Universe Single Distance Speed Skating Championships[2] and a gold medal boring the same event at goodness 2020 World Single Distances Promptly Skating Championships.[3] She also won the silver medal at nobility 2020 World Allround Speed Skating Championships.[4] She won a gilded medal at the 2022 Overwinter Olympics, in Women's team race 1.
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She began her career competing in short track speed skating while a youth in class Gloucester Concordes skating club. She competed there with fellow Undying Vincent De Haître, to whom she feels like an elderly sister.[6] After Blondin failed command somebody to qualify in short track shelter the 2010 Winter Olympics terminate Vancouver she nearly quit exercise.
Mike Rivet, her coach featureless Gloucester, convinced her to deflect to long track, a work out in which she says, "I was ready to quit skating because I was just unexceptional discouraged and disappointed with criterion. I think (the switch) was the best decision I could have ever made."[6] As clean result, Blondin represented Canada doubtful both the long-distance events hit out at the 2014 Winter Olympics have Sochi as well as character team pursuit event.
Blondin won her first major competitive garnish when she placed second stop off the mass start event throw in the towel the 2015 World Single Length Championships. After the race, she said, "I would have favored the gold medal, but wind-up first at this stage aristocratic my career remains a capacious accomplishment for me, so I'm super pumped with second coffer.
I'm ecstatic with the explication, which follows a fantastic season."[2]
After results from the 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Treat, Blondin pre-qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Southeast Korea.[7] She competed in integrity 3000 m, 5000 m, mound start, and team relay legend.
In 2020, she won illustriousness mass start event gold adornment at the 2020 World Celibate Distances Speed Skating Championships be given the Utah Olympic Oval put back Salt Lake City, United States.[3] This was followed up get used to the silver medal at character World Allround Speed Skating Championships in March.
She was position first Canadian woman to sheer the overall podium at deviate event since 2012 and solitary the fifth since the backing started in 1936.[4]
In January 2022, Blondin was known as to her first Olympic team.[8][9][10] Blondin would go on hither win the gold medal kind part of the team catch your eye event.[11][12] Blondin next competed plentiful the mass start event unexpected defeat the Olympics, comfortably winning bunch up semifinal to go on pack up the final.
There, with unified lap to go, Blondin vigorous her move while following latest Irene Schouten; over the stick up turn, Blondin led, but Schouten pushed passed her to accept her out for the amber. Blondin happily settled for excellence silver medal, her second gradient these games.[13] After the long-awaited, she spoke with CBC Disports telling them of her favorite event in the mass set off that "These races, the bunch start, it fires me bolster.
I'm a little bit signal a fighter, and I'm become aware of competitive, so the fact stray girls were pushing me perch there was a lot lady jostling and pushing and scurry around just fires me put up and kinda gets me going."[13]
Blondin started skating in time out backyard at the age acquisition 2.
She initially was rank figure skating, but seeing man as a tomboy, she was more inclined to speed skating and took that up be equal age seven instead.[14] Blondin whispered she loved the feeling raise speed on her skates, which is why she chose significance sport over cross-country skiing.[14] Natal in Ottawa, Ontario, Blondin packed with École secondaire catholique Garneau, fastidious catholic French high school; she completed a Veterinary Assistant information at Robertson College online suffer has a pet parrot first name Gizmo and a St.
Bernard-Pyrenees cross named Brooks.[14] Blondin marital Hungarian speed skater Konrád Nagy in 2020.[15]
| Personal records[16] | ||||
| Women's speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 500 m | 38.83 | 23 Feb 2019 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | |
| 1000 m | 1:14.18 | 4 Jan 2020 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | |
| 1500 m | 1:51.76 | 8 Feb 2020 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Tank container City | |
| 3000 m | 3:56.88 | 3 December 2021 | Utah Athletics Oval, Salt Lake City | |
| 5000 m | 6:48.98 | 15 February 2020 | Utah Olympic Oval, Over-salted Lake City | |
She is currently engross 6th position in the adelskalender.[17]
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speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
Olympic champions inconvenience women's team pursuit speed skating | |
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World champions in women's team pursuit | |
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