Laurence St-Germain

Laurence St-Germain
St-Germain in 2023
Personal information
Born (1994-05-30) 30 May 1994 (age 30)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
OccupationAlpine skier
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Skiing career
DisciplinesSlalom, giant slalom
ClubMont-Sainte-Anne
University of Vermont
World Cup debut
28 November 2015 (age 21)
Olympics
Teams2 – (2018, 2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams3 – (2019–2023)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons9 – (2016–2024)
Podiums0
Overall titles0 – (30th in 2021)
Discipline titles0 – (8th in SL, 2021)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Canada
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Méribel Slalom

Laurence St-Germain (born 30 May 1994) is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer, and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. She made her World Cup debut in November 2015, and is the current world champion in slalom.

Career

From Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Quebec, St-Germain competed for Canada at the Junior World Championships in 2013; she was 25th in the slalom but failed to finish the second run of the giant slalom on home snow at Mont-Sainte-Anne.[1][2] She made her World Cup debut in November 2015 in slalom at Aspen, and was 27th.[3] She scored her first World Cup points in November 2017 at Levi with a 17th-place finish in the slalom.[4]

St-Germain made her Olympic debut in 2018, and was 15th in the slalom.[5] At her first World Championships in 2019, she was sixth in the slalom.

St-Germain raced collegiately in the United States for the Catamounts of the University of Vermont, just over the border in Burlington; she was a three-time All-American and the national runner-up in the slalom in 2016.[6][7]

In January 2022, St-Germain was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[8][9]

At the 2023 World Championships in Méribel, St-Germain won the gold medal in the slalom.[10] She was the first Canadian woman in 63 years to win an alpine skiing world championship.[11]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2016 21 no World Cup points
2017 22
2018 23 90 33 — — — — —
2019 24 42 13 — — — —
2020 25 48 18 — — — — 11
2021 26 30 8 — — — — —
2022 27 52 15 — — — —
2023 28 47 14 — — — —
Standings through 11 March 2023

Top ten finishes

  • 0 podiums; 14 top tens
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2019 29 Dec 2018 Austria Semmering, Austria Slalom 10th
19 Feb 2019 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Parallel slalom 6th
2020 15 Dec 2019  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Parallel slalom 5th
29 Dec 2019 Austria Lienz, Austria Slalom 9th
14 Jan 2020 Austria Flachau, Austria Slalom 10th
2021 21 Nov 2020 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 6th
20 Dec 2020 Slalom 8th
12 Jan 2021 Austria Flachau, Austria Slalom 8th
6 Mar 2021 Slovakia Jasná, Slovakia Slalom 10th
2022 29 Dec 2021 Austria Lienz, Austria Slalom 9th
11 Jan 2022 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom 8th
2023 20 Nov 2022 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 9th
29 Jan 2023 Czech Republic Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic Slalom 7th
11 Mar 2023 Sweden Åre, Sweden Slalom 5th

World Championship results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined
2019 24 6 — — — —
2021 26 17 — — — —
2023 28 1 — — — —

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined
2018 23 15 — — — —
2022 27 17 — — — —

References

  1. ^ "FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Ladies' Slalom 21.02.2013". data.fis-ski.com.
  2. ^ "FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Ladies' Giant slalom 22.02.2013". data.fis-ski.com.
  3. ^ "FIS World Cup - Ladies' Slalom 28.11.2015". data.fis-ski.com.
  4. ^ "FIS World Cup - Ladies' Slalom 11.11.2017". data.fis-ski.com.
  5. ^ "Athletes, Medals & Results". Olympics.com. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  6. ^ "Laurence St. Germain and Kevin Drury to Represent Canada in Winter Olympics". University of Vermont.
  7. ^ "UVM Athletics". uvmathletics.com.
  8. ^ Nichols, Paula (21 January 2022). "13 alpine skiers and eight ski cross racers nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  9. ^ "21 Alpine Skiing and Ski Cross Athletes Nominated to Compete at Beijing 2022". www.alpinecanada.org/. Alpine Canada. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Canadian skier St-Germain beats Shiffrin to slalom gold". www.ctvnews.ca/. CTV News. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  11. ^ St-Germain, Laurence (10 November 2023). "My perfectly strange world championship win". CBC Sports. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
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