Deidra Dionne (born February 5, 1982) is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

freestyle skier. She was born in

North Battleford North Battleford is a city in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the seventh largest city in the province and is directly across the North Saskatchewan River from the Town of Battleford. Together, the two communities are known as "The Batt ...

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. She won bronze in the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

in freestyle aerial ski"National Sport School Opens"
, ''Ski and Snowboard Canada'', October 16, 2003. She also won the bronze medal at the 2001 and 2003 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships. Her health and career appeared in jeopardy on September 1, 2005; when she had a training accident that injured her neck. She came close to being paralyzed. She had to have surgery where two vertebrae in her neck were fused with a titanium plate. A bone graft needed to be taken from her right hip. Eventually she recoverred, and was able to participate in the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

. At the 2002

Salt Lake City Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internationa ...

, Dionne won a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

in women's aerial ski jumping.

Personal life

Dionne graduated from the

National Sport School The National Sport School (NSS) is a public high school (secondary school) in Calgary, Alberta which teaches grades 9 through 12. In partnership with Winsport Canada, the school was created to support student athletes with Olympic potential. Dev ...

in 1999, and then went on to pursue a

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program through

Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public research university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first ...

. After she finished her undergrad degree, Dionne studied law at the University of Ottawa. DD then went on to work at Goodmans LLP in Toronto as an Articling Student. She spent 10 months at the firm during 2013–2014. Between September 2015 and April 2018, she worked as the director of partnership and business strategy at Cimoroni & Company, a sport marketing and consulting company. In April 2018 she joined Rogers Media Inc/Sportsnet as Director of Business Affairs.

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1982 births Canadian female freestyle skiers Living people Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from North Battleford Sportspeople from Saskatchewan Athabasca University alumni Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics {{Canada-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub