Christine Gauthier
{{Short description|Canadian paracanoeist (born 1970)}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's National Sledge hockey}}
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{{MedalCompetition | IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup}}
{{MedalSilver | 2014 Canada | Tournament}}
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{{MedalSport| Women's paracanoe}}
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{{MedalCompetition| World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2010 Poznań | K-1 200 m LTA}}
{{MedalGold| 2011 Szeged | K–1 200 m LTA }}
{{MedalGold| 2013 Duisburg | K–1 200 m LTA}}
{{MedalSilver| 2013 Duisburg | V–1 200 m LTA}}
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Christine Gauthier (born May 6, 1970) is a Canadian sledge hockey player and paracanoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a gold medal in the K-1 200 m LTA event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań. Gauthier also participated in women's ice sledge hockey.{{Cite web|url=http://www.canadianwomensledgehockey.com/past-rosters.html|title=Women's Team 2014-2015 Roster|website=Women's Sledge Hockey of Canada|access-date=2016-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924071536/http://www.canadianwomensledgehockey.com/past-rosters.html|archive-date=2016-09-24|url-status=dead}} A member of the Canada women's national ice sledge hockey team since 2012, she competed in the first-ever IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup in 2014.
Athletic career
Her musculo-skeletic disorder affects her back, legs and hips.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
=Canada Women's National Sled Hockey Team=
Competing at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup from November 7–9, 2014 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cruisers-sports.com/cruiserscup/ipc/results.shtml|title=IPC Results .::. Cruisers Cup|website=www.cruisers-sports.com|access-date=2016-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211315/http://www.cruisers-sports.com/cruiserscup/ipc/results.shtml|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=dead}} Gauthier emerged with a silver medal.
=Paracanoe=
At the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan, Italy, Gauthier finished in sixth place.{{Cite web|url=http://canoekayak.ca/christine-gauthier-finishes-sixth-at-world-championships/|title=Christine Gauthier finishes sixth at World Championships|website=Canoe Kayak Canada|access-date=2016-05-09}}
Personal life
In December 2022, Gauthier testified that a Veterans Affairs Canada employee offered her medical assistance in dying (MAiD) as an option when she was fighting for installing a wheelchair lift or ramp at her house.{{cite news |last=Brewster |first=Murray |date=Dec 1, 2022 |title=Former paralympian tells MPs veterans department offered her assisted death |work=CBC News |location= |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted-death-macaulay-1.6671721 |access-date=Dec 11, 2022}} This has led to a national controversy, with Prime minister Justin Trudeau called the report "absolutely unacceptable". Subsequently, VAC claimed they found no record that MAID has been offered as an option to Gauthier and only found four such cases, all involving a single now-suspended case manager.{{cite news |last=Brewster |first=Murray |date=Dec 5, 2022 |title=Veterans Affairs says it has no proof former paralympian was offered assisted death |work=CBC News |location= |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/medical-assistance-death-maid-veterans-christine-gauthier-1.6674747 |access-date=Dec 11, 2022}}
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824103448/http://kayak2010.com/regatta/56.HTM 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships women's K-1 200 m LTA results.] – accessed 20 August 2010.
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Category:Canadian sledge hockey players
Category:Canadian female canoeists
Category:Paralympic canoeists for Canada
Category:ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in paracanoe
Category:KL3-classified paracanoeists
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