Sofiane Gagnon

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Sofiane Gagnon
Personal information
Born (1999-04-12) April 12, 1999 (age 22)
Whistler, British Columbia [1]
Sport
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Sport Freestyle skiing
Event(s) Moguls

Sofiane Gagnon (born April 12, 1999) is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally. [2]

She competed in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019, where she placed tenth in women's moguls and sixteenth in women's dual moguls, and in FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021, where she placed nineteenth in women's moguls, [3] and fourth in women's dual moguls. [4]

On January 24, 2022, Gagnon was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "Sofiane Gagnon". olympic.ca. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  2. "Sofiane GAGNON". data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  3. "Women's Moguls March 08, 2021 – OFFICIAL RESULTS". data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  4. "Women's Dual Moguls March 09, 2021 – OFFICIAL RESULTS". data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  5. Nichols, Paula (24 January 2022). "Team Canada adds 24 freestyle skiers to the roster for Beijing 2022". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. Ewing, Lori (24 January 2022). "Moguls star Kingsbury leads Canada's Beijing Olympic freestyle team". Canadian Press . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved 24 January 2022.