Jacqueline Legere (born 1991) is a Canadian

stuntwoman A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career. Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television, as opposed ...

and icecross downhill athlete currently competing in

Red Bull Crashed Ice Crashed Ice (full official name: '' Red Bull Crashed Ice'') is a world tour in the winter extreme sporting event, ''ice cross downhill'' (or downhill ice cross), which involves downhill skating in an urban environment, on a track which include ...

. During the 2016 season, Legere finished atop the Crashed Ice standings, emerging as the women’s world champion. When not competing in ice cross downhill, Legere is employed as a stuntwoman.

Athletic career

Ice hockey

During her teens, Legere competed in Ontario's

Provincial Women's Hockey League The Provincial Women's Hockey League (or PWHL) is a Junior women's ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 2004. It is considered to be the highest level of junior women's amateur ice hockey in Ontario, and is sanctioned by Hocke ...

with the Hamilton Hawks from 2009-11. She also competed in the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League with the Cambridge Roadrunners and won a high school hockey championship in

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Ice cross downhill

Red Bull Crashed Ice

Legere qualified for the

race in Quebec City in 2011, making her debut at the event. During the 2015-16 Crashed Ice season, Legere earned a podium finish in every race except for one, finishing in fifth place in

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. Her first win of the season took place on January 8, 2016 in

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, Germany, beating fellow Canadian Myriam Trepanier, who finished in second. In the final race of the season, held in St. Paul, Minnesota, she finished first in the race, resulting in a first place overall rank in the world rankings. Fellow Ontario native, Tamara Kajah, a former competitor with the UBC Thunderbirds women’s ice hockey program, finished in third place. To begin the 2016-17 Crashed Ice season, Legere finished in first place in the opening race, contested in Marseilles, France.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Legere, Jacqueline 1991 births Canadian women's ice hockey players Living people Ice hockey people from Ontario Sportspeople from Brantford Canadian stunt performers