Amélie Goulet-Nadon
Amélie Goulet - Nadon ( born January 24, 1983 in Laval ) is a former Canadian Shorttrackerin.
Goulet - Nadon trained under Guy Thibault and André Guilmette at the power center in Montreal and started for the club Montréal International. Her first international title fights they played at the Junior World Championship in 1999, where they reached 1500 m as the best result the semi-finals. The following year she again took part in the Junior World Championship, but there could not survive the prelims. In January 2000, Goulet - Nadon debuted in Gothenburg finally in the World Cup and drew over 1000 m immediately to the semi-finals. In The Hague, she contested for the first time the World Cup team and finished with teammates fourth. Also in the next season started Goulet - Nadon only irregularly. She took part in a World Cup, but there could not survive the prelims. At the Junior World Championships in 2001, she reached the final of the 500 m and 1500 m. Their first international medal she won at the World Team Championship 2001 in Minamimaki, where she won the bronze medal. In the 2001 /02 season Goulet - Nadon made a breakthrough in the world's best. It started in three World Cups and reached three semi-finals. In the World Team Championships in Milwaukee she could repeat winning the bronze medal from the Voirjahr. In addition, they could win in Montreal for the first time at the World Championships medals, more than 1500 m, and with the season, she won bronze in the all around competition, she was fifth. Another bronze medal she won at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, where she took in the relay, finishing in the final third.
Goulet - Nadon dominated the 2002/03 season in the World Cup. About 500 m, 1500 m and 3000 m, it reached three times and over 1000m twice the podium in the World Cup, including a total of four World Cup victories. Another World Cup win and three additional podiums won Goulet - Nadon also in the relay. She won the World Cup rankings across all three distances and was in the all-around Ranking second. Also at the World Championships in Warsaw it was successful. She won over 500 m and with the relay in each case the silver medal in the all around, she was again fifth. The following 2003/04 season was a success for Goulet - Nadon. You could take eight podiums in five World Cups, three of them with the relay as well as a victory over 500 meters. Unhappy ran out of their view, the World Team Championships in St. Petersburg, where the Canadian team finished fourth, and the World Championships in Gothenburg. She was eighth in the all around and reached three finals. With two finals, over 3000 m and in the season, however, they did not start after two runners the Canadian team fell hard and then all Canadian athletes were withdrawn.
The career of Goulet - Nadon took in the summer of 2004, an abrupt turn after her a motor disorder occurred, which limited their muscle control greatly. Despite the health problems they started in the 2004/05 season still at the first World Cup and reached the squadron once again the podium, the season but then broke off prematurely and ended her career later final.