Sophiane Méthot
{{Short description|Canadian trampoline gymnast (born 1998)}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's trampoline gymnastics }}
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalBronze | 2024 Paris | Individual }}
{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 2017 Sofia | Individual }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 2019 Tokyo | Individual team }}
{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Championships }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2016 Bogotá | Individual }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2016 Bogotá | Synchro }}
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{{Medal|Gold| 2018 Lima | Individual }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2018 Lima | Synchro}}
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Sophiane Méthot (born August 3, 1998) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She is the 2024 Olympic and 2017 World bronze medalist in the individual event. She also won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships with the trampoline team. She is a two-time Pan American champion (2016, 2018) in both individual and synchronized trampoline.
Gymnastics career
Méthot began gymnastics at the age of eight after being inspired by the movie Stick It.{{cite web |title=Sophiane Méthot |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/sophiane-methot/ |website=Canadian Olympic Committee |date=June 17, 2019 |access-date=March 12, 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Lidbetter |first1=Mark |title=Canada's golden Summer and silver lining Paris Olympics |url=https://www.thesuburban.com/sports/canada-s-golden-summer-and-silver-lining-paris-olympics/article_9944a194-55f0-11ef-9d4f-a7e0f2db25f3.html |website=The Suburban |access-date=March 14, 2025 |date=August 14, 2024}}
= 2015–2017 =
Méthot won the individual title at the 2015 World Age Group Competition in the 17–18 age group.{{cite web |title=Sophiane Méthot domine en trampoline individuel à Odense au Danemark |trans-title=Sophiane Méthot dominates individual trampoline in Odense, Denmark |url=https://www.rds.ca/amateurs/gymnastique-sophiane-methot-domine-en-trampoline-individuel-a-odense-au-danemark-1.2760808 |website=Réseau des sports |access-date=March 13, 2025 |language=fr |date=December 6, 2015}}
Méthot made her senior international debut at the 2016 Shanghai World Cup and placed eighth in the synchro event with Sarah Milette.{{cite web |title=Trois trampolinistes finalistes en Chine |trans-title=Three trampolinists finalists in China |url=https://www.rds.ca/sports-divers/raphaelle-villotte-sophiane-methot-et-sarah-milette-finalistes-en-chine-trampoline-1.3353342 |website=Réseau des sports |access-date=March 13, 2025 |language=fr |date=May 15, 2016}} She also competed at the 2016 Coimbra World Cup, finishing 29th as an individual.{{cite web |title=Canadian tumbler Michael Chaves wins bronze medal in Portugal |url=https://sirc.ca/news/canadian-tumbler-michael-chaves-wins-bronze-medal-in-portugal/ |website=Sport Information Resource Centre |access-date=March 13, 2025}} She won three gold medals at the 2016 Pan American Championships- in the individual, synchro, and team events.{{cite web |title=Campeonato Panamericano de Trampolin 2016 Results |url=https://gymcan.org/uploads/results_file/2016%20SR%20PAN%20AM%20CH%20-%20Bogota%CC%80,%20COL%20-%20Results.pdf |website=Gymnastics Canada |access-date=March 13, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220214249/https://gymcan.org/uploads/results_file/2016%20SR%20PAN%20AM%20CH%20-%20Bogota%CC%80,%20COL%20-%20Results.pdf |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |date=April 12, 2016 |url-status=dead}}
Méthot won the bronze medal behind Rosie MacLennan and Samantha Smith at the 2017 Canadian Championships.{{Cite news|date=July 16, 2017|title=Rosie MacLennan defends Canadian trampoline title|work=CTV News|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/rosie-maclennan-defends-canadian-trampoline-title/|access-date=April 30, 2020}} She won a bronze medal in synchro alongside Sarah Milette at the 2017 Minsk World Cup.{{cite web |title=Olympic champion Hancharou helps Belarus soar in Minsk |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=1855257 |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=August 21, 2017}} At the 2017 Loule World Cup, she finished 12th in the individual qualification round.{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Lauren |title=Strong results for Canadian gymnasts at Portugal World Cup |url=https://www.gymnasticsontario.ca/26864/ |website=Gymnastics Ontario |access-date=March 13, 2025 |date=October 3, 2017}} Then at the Valladolid World Cup, Milette and Méthot finished 12th in the synchro qualification round.{{cite web |title=Un manque de synchronisme coûte la finale à Milette et Méthot |trans-title=A lack of synchronization costs Milette and Méthot the final |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/10/08/un-manque-de-synchronisme-coute-la-finale-a-milette-et-methot |website=Le Journal de Montréal |access-date=March 13, 2025 |language=fr |date=October 8, 2017}} She then competed at the 2017 World Championships and won the individual bronze medal behind Tatsiana Piatrenia and Ayano Kishi.{{cite web |title=Gao Lei retains Trampoline title and Piatrenia finally clinches gold as curtain falls on 2017 Worlds |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=1948361 |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=November 12, 2017}}
= 2018–2019 =
Méthot and Sarah Milette finished sixth at the 2018 Brescia World Cup.{{cite web |title=FIG TRA World Cup Brescia (ITA) – Synchro Women |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/t_18aero_wsyfinal.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=March 13, 2025 |date=April 28, 2018}} She successfully defended her individual and synchro Pan American Championships titles.{{cite web |url=https://sporttech.io/events/717e8f86-0192-43cc-577c-b20fa728c3d1/ovs/stages/33/results |title=2018 Trampoline Gymnastics Senior Pan American Championships: Individual trampoline — Women — Final |publisher=Sporttech Ltd. |access-date=September 12, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://sporttech.io/events/717e8f86-0192-43cc-577c-b20fa728c3d1/ovs/stages/27/results |title=2018 Trampoline Gymnastics Senior Pan American Championships: Synchronised trampoline — Women — Final |publisher=Sporttech Ltd. |access-date=September 12, 2018}} She then competed at the 2018 World Championships, finishing 56th and 11th in the individual and synchro qualification rounds, respectively.{{cite web |title=33rd FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships 2018 St. Petersburg (Russia), 7–10 November 2018 Women's Trampoline Qualifications |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/t_18worlds_w_tr_qual.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=March 13, 2025 |pages=3 |date=November 7, 2018 |publisher=International Gymnastics Federation}}{{cite web |title=33rd FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships 2018 St. Petersburg (Russia), 7–10 November 2018 Women's Synchronised Trampoline Qualifications |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/t_18worlds_sy_qual.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |publisher=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 13, 2025 |pages=3 |date=November 8, 2018}}
At the 2019 World Championships held in Tokyo, Japan, Méthot won the bronze medal in the women's team event alongside Samantha Smith, Sarah Milette and Rosie MacLennan.{{Cite news|date=November 29, 2019|title=Canada wins women's team bronze at trampoline worlds|work=CBC Sports|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/gymnastics/world-trampoline-tumbling-women-team-bronze-1.5377873|access-date=April 30, 2020}}
= 2020–2022 =
Méthot was one of Canada's alternates for the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |last1=Dichter |first1=Myles |title=Sophiane Méthot bounced the 'monster' in her head, then jumped to the Olympic podium |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/gymnastics/trampoline/olympics-trampoline-sophiane-methot-monsters-1.7284230 |website=CBC News |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=August 2, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Rosie MacLennan headlines Canada's trampoline gymnastics team for Tokyo 2020 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/gymnastics/trampoline/canadian-olympic-trampoline-gymnastics-team-announced-for-tokyo-1.6090796 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=March 13, 2025 |date=July 5, 2021}} She competed at the 2021 World Championships and finished fourth in the synchro competition with Sarah Milette.{{cite web |title=35th FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships Baku (AZE), 18–21 November 2021 Women's Synchronised Trampoline Final |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2021/t_21worlds_sy.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |publisher=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 13, 2025 |pages=2 |date=November 20, 2021}}
Méthot won a bronze medal in the individual event at the 2022 Coimbra World Cup.{{cite web |title=Japan writes a golden trilogy on the trampoline at the Coimbra World Cup |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=3556400 |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=June 28, 2022}} She qualified for the final at the Rimini World Cup in first place, but she fell in the final and finished eighth.{{cite web |title=Sophiane Méthot termine huitième après avoir subi une chute en finale |trans-title=Sophiane Méthot finishes eighth after suffering a fall in the final |url=https://gymqc.ca/sophiane-methot-termine-huitieme-apres-avoir-subi-une-chute-en-finale/ |website=Gymnastique Québec |access-date=March 13, 2025 |language=fr |date=May 30, 2022}} Then at the 2022 World Championships, she finished fifth in the synchro final with Milette.{{cite web |title=36th FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships Sofia (BUL), 16–19 November 2022 Women's Synchronised Trampoline Final |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2022/t_22worlds_sy.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |publisher=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 13, 2025 |pages=2 |date=November 19, 2022}}
= 2023–2024 =
Méthot finished eighth in the individual final at the 2023 Santarem World Cup,{{cite web |title=FIG Trampoline World Cup – Santarem 2023 Event subtitle Individual trampoline —Senior Female —Final |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2023/t_23santarem_tr.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=March 13, 2025 |format=2}} and she finished seventh at the Coimbra World Cup.{{cite web |title=FIG Trampoline World Cup – Coimbra 2023 4th Edition Individual trampoline —Female —Final |url=https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2023/t_23coimbra_tr.pdf |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=March 13, 2025 |pages=2}} She then finished fourth at the Varna World Cup.{{cite web |last1=Charlebois |first1=Michael |last2=McGoldrick |first2=Hayley |title=Weekend Roundup: Men's volleyball team books ticket for Paris 2024 |url=https://olympic.ca/2023/10/10/weekend-roundup-mens-volleyball-team-books-ticket-for-paris-2024/ |website=Canadian Olympic Committee |access-date=March 13, 2025 |date=October 10, 2023}} Méthot finished fifth in the individual event at the 2023 World Championships and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |title=How Sophiane Methot became Canada's new Trampoline princess |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=4279321 |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=August 29, 2024}}
Méthot won a silver medal at the 2024 Coimbra World Cup behind Anzhela Bladtceva.{{cite web |title=Portugal's Trampoline World Cup provides pre-Olympic lift |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=421020 |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=March 12, 2025 |date=July 9, 2024}} She represented Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics and was the last qualifier for the women's trampoline final after finishing in eighth place. In the final, held the day before her 26th birthday, she improved her performance and won the bronze medal.{{Cite web |last=Lacroix |first=Audrey |date=August 2, 2024 |title=Perfect timing leads Sophiane Méthot to Olympic bronze in Paris |url=https://olympic.ca/2024/08/02/perfect-timing-leads-sophiane-methot-to-olympic-bronze-in-paris/ |access-date=August 3, 2024 |website=Canadian Olympic Committee}}
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Category:Canadian female trampolinists
Category:Medalists at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships
Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen
Category:Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gymnasts for Canada
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Canada