Dominique Maltais
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Born | 2015) | 9 November 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 2 (0 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seasons | 10 (2004–2006, 2008-2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 5 - Snowboard Cross (2006, 2011-2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dominique Maltais (born 9 November 1980) is a Canadian
Snowboarding career
Born in
In Turin, Maltais was in a final of four with fellow Canadian Maëlle Ricker. Ricker fell in the early stages, and Maltais crashed out of a corner farther down. After the other two racers (Tanja Frieden and Lindsey Jacobellis) finished, Maltais was able to get up and finish the race, earning her the bronze. Dominique had a disappointing 2010 Winter Olympics falling in both of her qualifying runs and therefore did not qualify for the finals.[3]
Maltais followed a disappointing Olympics with a successful start to the 2010–11 FIS Snowboard World Cup leading the World Cup snowboard cross category heading into the 2011 World Snowboarding Championships. There she managed to take third place for the bronze medal.[4] Maltais finished the World Cup season as the overall and Crystal Globe champion in her category. This was her second overall title having previously achieved the feat in 2005–06.
At the XVI Winter X Games Maltais won her first medal which came as the gold and X Games champion in 2012. She had followed this with several successes on the World Cup tour that year, including a home nation victory at Blue Mountain.[5] This victory, among others, helped propel her to her second straight Crystal Globe championship as the overall winner on the FIS tour.[6] Success continued further into the following season where Maltais again won several events, in the early stages.[6] Maltais would also find further accomplishment by winning the silver at the 2013 World Snowboarding Championships which took place in her home province of Quebec. There she would place second, finishing familiarly behind teammate Ricker who won her first World Championship gold medal there.[7]
Maltais went into the
Personal
Her father is the mayor of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, her birthplace and hometown where she also fulfills her career as a firefighter.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Snowboard Canada profile". Snowboarding Canada. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ "Dominique Maltais". Canadian Olympic Committee. 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ "Fog delays women's snowboard cross". CBC News. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ "Maltais takes bronze in snowboard cross at worlds". CBC News. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "Canadian Maltais wins snowboard cross gold, Ricker 3rd". CBC Sports. 8 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Canadian Athlete of the Weekend: Dominique Maltais". CBC Sports. 17 December 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Canadians grab gold, silver in snowboard cross worlds event". January 26, 2013.
- Huffington Post Canada. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.