Guillaume Ouellet
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Born | Sorel-Tracy, Canada | 3 October 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (69 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Disability | Visual impairment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Club d'Athletisme de l'Universite Laval | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Felix-Antoine Lapointe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guillaume Ouellet (born 3 October 1986) is a Canadian para-athlete competing in T13 middle and long-distance races.[1]
Career history[]
Ouellet began took up athletics in 2011 at college. In 2013 he was selected to represent Canada at the 2013 World Championships in Lyon in the 1500 metres race, finishing fourth.[2] Two years later he was back in the Canadian team to compete at his second World Championships, this time in Doha. He competed in both the 1,500m and 5,000m, winning gold in the latter, with a time of 15:07.64.[2]
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships held in London, United Kingdom he won the bronze medal in the men's 5000 metres T13 event.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Ouellet, Guillaume". official website London 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Ouellet, Guillaume". IPC. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ "Men's 5000 metres T13" (PDF). 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors
- Canadian male middle-distance runners
- Canadian male long-distance runners
- People from Sorel-Tracy
- People from Victoriaville
- Paralympic track and field athletes of Canada
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
- World Para Athletics Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Canadian track and field athletics biography stubs