Justine Dufour-Lapointe

Canadian freestyle skier

Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born March 25, 1994 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She skied in the moguls events for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she won a gold medal. Her sister Chloé Dufour-Lapointe also won a silver medal in the event which was the first time that Canadian sisters stood together on the podium.[1] When she won the gold medal, she became the youngest freestyle skiing Olympic champion ever at 19.[2] She also won a bronze medal in the moguls event at the 2013 FIS World Championships. It was the first gold medal win for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Justine Dufour-Lapointe

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  1. "Justine, Chloé Dufour-Lapointe win gold, silver in women's moguls". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  2. "Dufour-Lapointe sisters win gold and silver in Olympic moguls". CTV News. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09.

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