Lise Meloche

Marie Lise Meloche ( born April 19, 1960 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a former Canadian athlete kayaking, cross-country skier and biathlete. She took biathlon at two Winter Olympic Games in part.

Sporty and professional career

Lise Meloche was before her biathlon career success already as a five- year-old alpine skier and then by canoe racing. In 1979 she was Canadian junior champion in the double kayak. After starting in 1983 in the long run had some successes - among other things she was seventh at the North American Championships and took part in a World Cup race, she started as a member of the National Capital in 1984 with the sport of Biathlon, winning only their first Canadian Championships as well as their single title at North America Championships. She participated in the first World Women's Championship in Chamonix already in the same year. With the tenth place in the sprint she succeeded equally good results. Also in 1984 she debuted in the Biathlon World Cup. From the beginning, she placed on front ranks and succeeded in 1985 as a third party its first podium. Still in the 1986 season they also managed a second place and finished the season in the overall standings of the World Cup third place behind Eva Korpela and Sanna Gronlid. This was their best finish in the overall rankings, even if they still occupied front seats and in 1991 as the first Canadian ever to win a World Cup race.

For further world championships her reach of top positions, a medal win which she did not. In 1985, she was ninth in the sprint, 1986 Sixth and Seventh in individual sprint, in 1987 per one rank behind in seventh in the sprint and eighth in singles. In her last Biathlon year at the Biathlon World Championships in 1994 in Canmore in their home country, where the non-Olympic team competitions were carried out, it came with the Canadian team ( Meloche, Yvonne Visser, Inger -Kristin Berg, Jane Isakson ) sixth. Meloche was also in the military world championships for Canada at the start and won two medals for the World Championship in 1988 was still a bronze plaque in 1993.

The participation at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1994 in Albertville and Lillehammer were the highlights of their athletes life. In 1992 she was 47th and 50th in the sprint and individual, with 3 x 7.5 km relay in the cast Meloche, Myriam Bédard and Jane Isakson it ranked eleventh. Two years later you get much better results, although in fifth place in the final shooting shot two errors at 15 km Individual and even fell back to place eighteen in the final result. With this result Meloche was however overshadowed by her compatriot Myriam Bédard, the double Olympic champion was. In the sprint was a 37th place to book and it was with Jane Isakson, Myriam Bédard and Inger -Kristin Berg 15 in the 4 x 7.5 km relay competition.

After the 1994 season, she finished her biathlon career, overall they had started at about 200 races in the World Cup and came 21 times in the top ten. Then she turned back and other sporting events to, among other things, she won the 1995 Winterman triathlon.

Lise Meloche married the biathletes and runner David McMahon and lives in Old Chelsea, Outaouais, Québec. She is an exercise physiologist and kinesiologist and operates with her husband, a production company for training and instruction films in cross-country skiing area. With him, she has produced several ski films and videos in which she was involved partially self. She also teaches at the John Mccrae Secondary School. She was inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).

(Data not complete and may be wrong disciplines assigned )

Publications

• Tao of Skiing. Aide Memoire for Cross - Country Skiing aficionados. ( The Way to learn to cross country ski). 1999, ISBN 0-9685666-1-8.