Hugo Barrette

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Hugo Barrette
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Medal record
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Men's track cycling
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Sprint
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Team sprint
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Toronto Keirin
Pan American Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 Mar del Plata Team sprint
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Mexico City Team sprint
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Aguascalientes Keirin
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Santiago Team sprint
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Santiago Sprint

Hugo Barrette (born 4 July 1991 in Cap-Aux-Meules, Quebec) is a Canadian cyclist, specializing in track time trials. Barrette is from the Magdalen Islands, Quebec and now lives in Santa Monica, California, in the USA. [1]

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Records

On 28 August 2014 at Aguascalientes, he set a new Canadian record in the flying 200 m time trial of 9.77 seconds. The following day, he broke the 1 km against the clock record with a time of 1:00:9. With his teammates Joseph Veloce and Stéphane Cossette, he also holds the Canadian record in team sprints; the team achieved a time of 43.922 seconds at the Panamerican Cycling Championships in Mexico City on 7 February 2013.

Injuries

In 2015, Hugo Barrette survived a horrific crash while training for a UCI World Cup in Cali, Colombia, with two broken lumbar vertebrae, a broken nose, split lip, concussion, neck dislocation and severe contusions. [2] At the World Track Cycling Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, Hugo Barrette had an accident as he exited the fourth turn at full speed while the German Lea Sophie Friedrich was climbing the track. [3] During the same year, in 2019, he fell off his bike and broke his scapula, one of the strongest bones. Since he had qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics, [4] the postponement of one year of the Tokyo Olympics was a blessing. [5]

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Hugo Barrette represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [6] [7]

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References

  1. Marc Durand, "Hugo Barrette: contre vents et marées", Radio Canada, 23 July 2014 (in French)
  2. "Hugo Barrette's Injury Recovery".
  3. "Hugo Barrette frôle la catastrophe" (in French).
  4. "Hugo Barrette". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  5. "Un athlete completement different".
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  7. "Cycling Track BARRETTE Hugo". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2021-08-28.