Marie-Pier Beaudet

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Marie-Pier Beaudet (born December 12, 1986) is a former Canadian archer who competed at three Summer Olympic Games between 2004 and 2012. Beaudet made her international debut in 2002, and in addition to the Olympic Games has contested the Pan American Games, in which she won a silver medal in 2007, and the Commonwealth Games, in which she earned a bronze medal in 2010.

Career

Beaudet was born on December 12, 1986, in Quebec City, Quebec.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/marie-pier-beaudet/|title=Marie-Pier Beaudet|website=Olympic.ca|date=September 18, 2011 |publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|accessdate=17 February 2020}} She made her debut to the Canadian national team at the World Archery Youth Championships in 2002,{{cite web|url=https://worldarchery.org/news/120004/three-time-olympian-marie-pier-beaudet-retires|title=Three-time Olympian Marie-Pier Beaudet retires|publisher=World Archery Federation|first=Ludivine|last=Maitre Wicki|date=4 June 2015|accessdate=16 February 2020}} and won her first international competition in Arizona that same year, a moment she reflected in 2015 as her greatest achievement.{{cite web|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/720003/mariepier-beaudet-retraite-tir-londres|title=Marie-Pier Beaudet arrête le tir à l'arc|language=French|website=Radio Canada|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date=9 May 2015|accessdate=16 February 2020}}

Following the 2012 Summer Olympics Beaudet took a year's break from archery to prioritise her mental health, returning to the sport in 2014. Beaudet announced her retirement in 2015 to focus on her nursing studies at Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon.

;Olympic Games

Beaudet's selection to represent Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics made her the country's youngest ever Olympic archer at seventeen years old.

Beaudet won selection to the 2008 Summer Olympics in July 2008 after a successful appeal against the results of a national trial held in May, which Beaudet argued was not clarified prior to competition as the basis for Olympic selection.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/beaudet-earns-women-s-archery-place-at-beijing-1.711641|title=Beaudet earns women's archery place at Beijing|website=CBC Sports|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date=20 July 2008|accessdate=17 February 2020}} Beaudet entered the 2008 Games holding a world ranking of 53. She finished the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, which determined the seedings for the elimination rounds, in thirty-fourth position and advanced to the second round of the women's individual event after a narrow opening round win against India's Dola Banerjee. Beaudet was eliminated by her second round opponent Yun Ok-hee of South Korea, who had earlier won gold medal in the women's team event.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/canada-s-beaudet-bounced-in-women-s-archery-1.696806|title=Canada's Beaudet bounced in women's archery|website=CBC Sports|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date=12 August 2008|accessdate=16 February 2020}}

Beaudet qualified for the Canadian Olympic team for the 2012 Summer Olympics shortly after winning a qualification spot for Canada in Medellín in April that year, having set a new Canadian national record points score of 1,340 from a maximum of 1,440 in the process. At the Games Beaudet concluded the ranking round in twenty-ninth position for the women's individual event with 645 points from a maximum of 720.{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/whitfield-leads-in-canadian-team-now-the-work-begins/article4445984/|title=Whitfield leads in Canadian team, now the work begins|website=The Globe and Mail|agency=The Canadian Press|first=Phil|last=Noble|date=27 July 2012|accessdate=16 February 2020}}

;Pan American and Commonwealth Games

Beaudet won silver medal in the women's team recurve event the 2007 Pan American Games with teammates Kristen Niles and Kateri Vrakking, losing to Colombia in the final by two points. She was praised by the Canadian coach for adapting to shooting last in sequence within the team as opposed to her usual position as first.{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/canada-paddles-to-more-medals/article20404124/|title=Canada paddles to more medals|website=The Globe and Mail|first=James|last=Christie|date=28 July 2007|accessdate=16 February 2020}}

In July 2010 Beaudet was announced as a member of the Canadian team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi,{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/12-archers-to-compete-for-canada-at-commonwealth-games-1.934512|title=12 archers to compete for Canada at Commonwealth Games|website=CBC Sports|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|agency=The Canadian Press|date=6 July 2010|accessdate=16 February 2020}} where she won bronze medal in the women's team recurve event.