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Frédérique Turgeon

Canadian para-alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ63372455 ↗
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Frédérique Turgeon (born March 25, 1999) is a Canadian para-alpine skier and a Big Brother Célébrités contestant in 2024 and 2025.

Career

She won gold at the 2015 Canada Winter Games and silver and bronze twice at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships. She also represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics and finished ninth in the giant slalom.

She was born with congenital femoral deficiency resulting in one of her legs being 50% shorter than the other. She broke her leg during a crash in December 2013. After the crash she stopped competing on both legs and now competes on one leg.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2024, 2025, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-03-25. For this dossier, Frédérique, Turgeon and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Frédérique Turgeon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.