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
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Slalom, giant slalom
Club	Mont-Sainte-Anne University of Vermont
World Cup debut	28 November 2015 (age 21)
Olympics
Teams	2 – (2018, 2022)
Medals	0
World Championships
Teams	4 – (2019–2025)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	9 – (2016–2024)
Podiums	0
Overall titles	0 – (30th in 2021)
Discipline titles	0 – (8th in SL, 2021)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing   Canada World Championships 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 slalom 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	50	16	—	—	—	—
2024	29	68	26	—	—	—
2025	30	43	14	—	—	—

Standings through 15 February 2025

Top ten finishes

• 0 podiums; 17 top tens

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2019	29 Dec 2018	Semmering, Austria	Slalom	10th
	19 Feb 2019	Stockholm, Sweden	Parallel slalom	6th
2020	15 Dec 2019	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Parallel slalom	5th
	29 Dec 2019	Lienz, Austria	Slalom	9th
	14 Jan 2020	Flachau, Austria	Slalom	10th
2021	21 Nov 2020	Levi, Finland	Slalom	6th
	20 Dec 2020		Slalom	8th
	12 Jan 2021	Flachau, Austria	Slalom	8th
	6 Mar 2021	Jasná, Slovakia	Slalom	10th
2022	29 Dec 2021	Lienz, Austria	Slalom	9th
	11 Jan 2022	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	8th
2023	20 Nov 2022	Levi, Finland	Slalom	9th
	29 Jan 2023	Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic	Slalom	7th
	11 Mar 2023	Åre, Sweden	Slalom	5th
2024	12 Nov 2023	Levi, Finland	Slalom	7th
2025	16 Nov 2024		Slalom	10th
	1 Dez 2024	Killington, USA	Slalom	7th

World Championship results

Year
	Age	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined	Team Combined	Team Event
2019	24	6	—	—	—	—	—	—
2021	26	17	—	—	—	—		—
2023	28	1	—	—	—	—		—
2025	30	DNF1	—	—	—	—	—	19

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.

External links

• Laurence St-Germain at FIS (alpine)
• Laurence St-Germain at Olympics.com
• Laurence St-Germain at Team Canada
• Laurence St-Germain at Olympedia
• Laurence St-Germain at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Laurence St-Germain at Alpine Canada
• Laurence St-Germain at University of Vermont Athletics