Marie-Michèle Gagnon (born 25 April 1989) is a Canadian former alpine ski racer.
Career Gagnon joined the Canadian national team at the age of eighteen, although a leg fracture halted her progress at the start of her rookie season. She made her World Cup debut in December 2008 and has represented Canada at two Winter Olympics and six World Championships.
Gagnon's first World Cup podium came in March 2012, a third-place in a slalom at Åre, Sweden. Her first victory was in January 2014, a combined event at Altenmarkt, Austria. which was the first podium for a Canadian in a World Cup combined event in thirty years. The previous day she scored her first World Cup points in downhill at the same venue. That season she also took her first top ten World Cup finishes in super-G, finishing tenth and sixth in races in Lake Louise and St. Moritz respectively. At the Winter Olympics, Gagnon crashed out of the slalom run of the combined, dislocating her shoulder, before failing to finish the super-G and giant slalom, and securing a ninth place in the slalom. She finished thirteenth in the overall World Cup standings and sixth in slalom.
In January 2022, Gagnon was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.
Personal life Gagnon was the third of five siblings and left the family home at age twelve to pursue her education and ski racing in Mont-Sainte-Anne and Quebec City. Her childhood idols included Mélanie Turgeon, Geneviève Simard, and Erik Guay.
Gagnon has been in a relationship with American alpine racer Travis Ganong since 2008. The pair met through mutual friend Louis-Pierre Hélie; in 2014, the couple moved to a new home in Lake Tahoe, California. They became engaged at the Matterhorn on 15 September 2021. They married in July 2024.
World Cup results
Season titles 1 title (1 combined) Season Discipline2014 Combined Crystal globes in combined were not awarded during these seasons, but medals were.
Season standings Season Age Overall Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2009 19 73 33 35 — — — 2010 20 103 43 — — — — 2011 21 29 22 16 49 — 15 2012 22 21 10 26 44 — 12 2013 23 21 17 23 32 — 4 2014 24 13 6 19 19 51 1 2015 25 28 11 34 31 — 5 2016 26 16 11 14 44 — 4 2017 27 20 13 16 — — 21 2018 28 86 38 37 — — — 2019 29 46 — 24 23 — 13 2020 30 63 — 49 37 30 27 2021 31 24 — — 11 16 rowspan="3" 2022 3236— —26 18 2023 3362——2233
Race podiums 2 wins – (2 SC) 5 podiums – (2 SL, 2 SC, 1 SG); 61 top tens Season Date Location Discipline Place2012 10 Mar 2012 Åre, Sweden Slalom 3rd2014 12 Jan 2014 Altenmarkt, Austria Super combined 1st2016 15 Feb 2016 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Slalom 3rd28 Feb 2016 Soldeu, Andorra Super combined1st2021 30 Jan 2021 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 3rd
World Championship results Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2009 19 DNF1 DNF1 — — — 2011 21 DNF1 23 22 — DNF2 2013 23 13 8 — — — 2015 25 10 23 DNF — DNF1 2017 27 20 20 19 — 6 2019 29 — 23 21 32 14 2021 31 — — 6 13 DNF2 2023 33 — — 26 10
Olympic results Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2010 20 31 21 — — — 2014 24 9 DNF1 DNF — DNF2 2018 28Injured in November, missed rest of season 2022 32 — — 14 8 —
References
External links
Marie-Michèle Gagnon at Alpine Canada (archived)