Marie-Claude Asselin is a
Canadian former
freestyle skier
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...
competing from 1977 to 1982 in which she was a three-time world champion.
Skiing career
Asselin competed from 1977 to 1982 in the aerial, ballet and moguls categories of freestyle skiing.
In that time, she won 35
Freestyle World Cup competitions,
was the Freestyle World Cup champion in both combined and aerials in
1981
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,
1982
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, and
1983
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and was the Freestyle World Cup overall champion in 1981 and 1982.
In 1983, Asselin was awarded the
Elaine Tanner Trophy for Canadian Female Athlete of the year. Asselin was inducted into the
Canadian Ski Hall of Fame The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (french: Le Temple de la renommée du ski canadien) was created by the Canadian Ski Museum in 1982 to honour skiing pioneers, competitors, coach (sports), coaches, officials, and builders.
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in 1991.
World Cup podium finishes
References
External links
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Canadian female freestyle skiers
1962 births
Living people
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