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Émilie Mondor (April 29, 1981 – September 9, 2006) was a Canadian
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athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.


Early life

She was born in
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,
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in 1981. Mondor studied at
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, later moving to
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to study and train. She had a promising performance at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing tenth in the junior race at the age of sixteen. She did not build on these performances, however, and she finished some minutes behind the leaders at the 1999 and 2000 world junior races.


Career

Mondor won the
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in March 2003 with a time of 18:51 – one of the fastest recorded on the course. A twelfth-place finish at the
2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 29/30, 2003. The races were held at the L'Institut Équestre National d'Avenches, L'Institut Équestre National in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland. Reports of the event were ...
confirmed her one of the better cross country runners of her generation. She finished twelfth in
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at the
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, and near the close of the season she became the first Canadian woman to dip under 15:00 in the 5000 m. She improved further in cross country the following year, finishing in eighth in the long race at the
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and thirteenth in the short race at the same competition. She began to take up
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and won the
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in early 2004. At the
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she finished seventeenth overall in the
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. She also won the Belfast International Cross Country that year. She was the most successful athlete in the history of the North American 5K Championships, coming runner-up in 2002, then winning three straight titles in the following years.North American 5 Kilometres Challenge
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-20. Mondor was unable to compete for much of 2005 and 2006 due to a rare medical condition affecting the strength of her bones. After drug treatments for the condition, she placed second in a 10 kilometre road race held in
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on May 7, 2006.Crash leaves champion runner dead
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'' (2006-09-11). Retrieved on 2010-03-01.


Death

She died in a car accident on Highway 417 near
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. According to the Ontario Provincial Police, Ms. Mondor lost control of her car after passing two other vehicles.


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