Justine Dufour-Lapointe
Justine Dufour - Lapointe ( born March 25, 1994, Montreal ) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She specializes in the moguls and dual moguls mogul disciplines. Her sisters Chloé and Maxime operate the same sport. 2014, it became Olympic champion.
Biography
From January 2009, aged 14 years, took Dufour - Lapointe of moguls competitions in the Nor- Am Cup, the North American Continental Championship, in part, scoring in her first season as the best result a fourth place. In the winter of 2009/10 was followed by a second and two third places.
Her debut in the World Cup were Dufour - Lapointe on December 11, 2010 in Ruka, where they immediately drove to fifth place. Four days later she was in Méribel as third parties for the first time on the podium. In their third World Cup competition, on 15 January 2011 at Mont Gabriel, she succeeded in the discipline Dual Moguls already the first victory; 16 years and 9 months, she is thus the youngest freestyle World Cup winner ever. In the World Cup season 2011/12 Dufour - Lapointe definitively established at the top. First, they classified six times in second, behind each of the superior Hannah Kearney And it came up a third place. At the end of the season she finally succeeded in Megève, the second World Cup victory. In the overall World Cup, this resulted in the fourth and in the moguls World Cup second place.
In the World Cup season 2012/13 Dufour - Lapointe get four podium finishes, including a victory. At the World Championships in 2013, she won the bronze medal in moguls. In the World Cup Winter 2013/14 she stood on the podium eight times, including four times as the winner, which she took second place in the discipline standings and third in the overall standings. The greatest success of her career, she celebrated on 8 February 2014, the Olympic gold medal in Sochi, before their second-placed sister Chloé.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Sochi 2014: 1 Moguls
World Championships
- Voss 2013: 3 Moguls, Dual Moguls 15
World Cup
- Season 2010/ 11: 4 - Mogul World Cup
- Season 2011/12: 4th overall World Cup, 2nd Mogul World Cup
- Season 2012/13: 7 Overall World Cup, 2nd Mogul World Cup
- 24 podiums, 7 Wins:
Other successes
- 3 podiums in the Nor -Am Cup
- 2 wins in FIS races