Marie-Pier Préfontaine

Marie-Pier Préfontaine ( born October 18, 1988 in Sainte -Agathe -des- Monts, Quebec ) is a Canadian alpine skier. Your strongest discipline of giant slalom. Since December 2006, it starts in the World Cup.

Biography

Préfontaine denied her first FIS races in December 2003 and in January 2004 they first participated in competitions in Nor- Am Cup. A year later, her ninth in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte -Anne, the first top-10 place in the Nor- Am Cup. At the Junior World Championship 2005 in Bardonecchia was her best result of 26th place in the slalom.

In the season 2005/ 06 Préfontaine drove resistant in Nor- Am Cup into the top ten and reached on January 3, with second place in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte -Anne the first podium. Thus they finished fifth in the super -G standings, sixth in the giant slalom standings and ninth overall. At the Junior World Cup in 2006 in her native Quebec they were each 27 in the downhill and giant slalom and 32nd in the Super -G and Slalom.

End of December 2006, she took in the slalom and giant slalom in Semmering first time in World Cup races in part, but came in any of these contests in the second round. In the season 2006/ 07 of the Nor -Am Cup she managed third place in the Super- G of Panorama of second place on the podium and with four other top 10 places they came in both the Super - G and the giant slalom rating under the top ten, even though they already had to end prematurely due to a knee injury, the season in late January.

Your first race after the injury was the World Cup giant slalom in Panorama on 27 November 2007, in which they, as well as in their other two World Cup races this winter, however, brought no result at the finish. Fared better in their Nor- Am Cup, where they celebrated their first victory in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte -Anne, on 3 January 2008 and the next day drove in the second giant slalom in third place. So she reached the third place in the giant slalom standings in the 2007/ 08 season. On 11 February, she was behind Larisa Yurkiw Canadian Vice-Champion in the Super- G and two weeks later it reached at the Junior World Championship 2008 in Formigal ninth place in the giant slalom.

In the Nor- Am Cup season 2008/ 09 Préfontaine managed a second place finish in the giant slalom at Georgian Peaks and three other top 10 results, but in the overall standings they came in any discipline among the top ten. In their three World Cup starts this winter they managed to qualify again in any race for the second pass. In February 2009, she participated in the World Championships in Val d'Isere, finishing in 35th place in the giant slalom. On November 28, 2009 won Préfontaine with rank 25 in the giant slalom in Aspen their first World Cup points and a few days later you arrive at the same place two more victories in the Nor- Am Cup. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 she went to rank 29 in the giant slalom.

My best ever World Cup result obtained, the Canadian 6 February 2011 with 9th place in the giant slalom in Zwiesel. Shortly thereafter, she scored two 24th places in the Giant Slalom and Super- G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In the Nor- Am Cup it secured in the 2010/11 season with five wins and a second place winning the giant slalom standings. In the season 2011/12 Préfontaine reached again five wins each second in the giant slalom and Super - Combination Evaluation and like last year the sixth overall in Nor- Am Cup. In the World Cup their best result of the season 2011/12 was a 16th in the Super G in Garmisch -Partenkirchen.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010: 29 Giant Slalom
  • Sochi 2014: 20 Super -G

World Championships

  • Val d'Isere 2009: 35 Giant Slalom
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 24 Super -G, Giant Slalom 24
  • Schladming 2013: 28 Super -G, Giant Slalom 28

World Cup

  • 2 Placement in the top ten

Nor- Am Cup

  • Season 2005/ 06: 9th overall, 5th Super-G standings, 6 giant slalom rating
  • Season 2006/ 07: 7 Super-G standings, 9 Giant Slalom rating
  • Season 2007/ 08: 3rd giant slalom rating
  • Season 2009/ 10: 2nd Giant Slalom rating
  • Season 2010/ 11: 6th overall, 1st Giant Slalom rating
  • 2011/12 season: 6th overall, 2nd giant slalom standings, second super combined standings, 6 Super -G standings
  • Season 2012/13: 4 Super Combined Score
  • Season 2013/14: 6 Super-G standings, 8 Super - combined score
  • 27 podiums including 15 victories:

Junior World Championships

  • Bardonecchia 2005: 26 Slalom, Giant Slalom 30, 43 downhill, super-G 50
  • Quebec 2006: 11 Combination 27 exit 27, Giant Slalom, Super-G, 32, 32 Slalom
  • Formigal 2008: 9 Giant Slalom, Super -G 22

Other successes

  • Canadian Vice-Champion in the Super- G in 2008 and in the giant slalom in 2010
  • 1 victory in the Australia New Zealand Cup
  • 9 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts Mont Sainte-Anne Panorama Mountain Village FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 Aspen (Colorado) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 Whistler (British Columbia)
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