Maëlle Ricker
Maëlle Ricker receives her gold medal at the 2010 Olympic medal ceremony. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | December 2, 1978 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.maellericker.ca/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboard cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maëlle Danica Ricker (/maɪˈɛl/; born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian retired snowboarder, who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, to become the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics. She is also the 2013 World Champion and two-time Winter X Games Champion (1999, 2006).