Marie-Ève Drolet

Marie- Ève Drolet ( born February 3, 1982 in Chicoutimi ) is a Canadian Shorttrackerin.

She began at age six with short track speed skating and starts for the club Comètes de Chicoutimi and trained today at the power center in Montreal. She denied at the Junior World Championship 1997 in Marquette its first international competition and won over 500 m bronze in the all around competition, she finished fourth. Since 1998, Drolet officially part of the national squad. In 1999, she was again successful at the Junior World Championship. In multiplayer battle she again Fourth, about 500 meters, she won silver and 1500m bronze. Also in the Team World Championship 1999 in St. Louis, she won silver. The following season, 1999/ 00 Drolet reached about 1500 m and 3000 m for the first time a World Cup podium. At the Junior World Championships in Székesfehérvár Drolet won gold in the all around and also on the individual routes 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m respectively silver. Even more successful was the following season 2000/ 01. Drolet won over 500 m bronze at the World Championships in Jeonju and was in the all around sixth. Also in the World Team Championships, she won bronze. Three gold and two silver medals she won also at the Junior World Championships in Warsaw. Drolet could repeat winning the bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships in Montreal in both the Team World Cup 2002 in Milwaukee and with the relay. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. There they took over 1000 m and 1500 m the ranks of four and six, in the relay competition, she won the bronze medal. After the season Drolet finished her career first.

Only six years later, in the 2008 /09 season, Drolet returned to the ice. In the World Cup, it reached more semifinals. Successes, she won again in season 2010/11. They won seven podiums, three with the season and four in a single race. At the World Championships in Sheffield she reached over 500 m as the best single result eighth and won with the relay another bronze medal. The 2011/12 season was a success for Drolet. About 1000 m and with the season it was in the World Cup once each second. Over 1500 m, it was in the discipline Appreciation seventh. Drolet could each win the bronze medal at the World Championships in Shanghai about 1500 m and 3000 m. With the season they also finished in the final ranking fourth in the all around and they finished seventh. In the following World Championships in Debrecen, she won silver in the relay, which she succeeded again in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Drolet broke up in 2000 in a national race a vertebra, but was lucky and was able to continue her career in the following season. She completed a degree in psychology.