Marie-Michèle Gagnon

Gagnon joined the Canadian national team at the age of eighteen, although a leg fracture halted her progress at the start of her rookie season.^[1] She made her World Cup debut in December 2008 and has represented Canada at two Winter Olympics and six World Championships.

Gagnon's first World Cup podium came in March 2012, a third-place in a slalom at Åre, Sweden.^[2][3] Her first victory was in January 2014, a combined event at Altenmarkt, Austria.^[4] which was the first podium for a Canadian in a World Cup combined event in thirty years.^[5] The previous day she scored her first World Cup points in downhill at the same venue.^[6] That season she also took her first top ten World Cup finishes in super-G, finishing tenth and sixth in races in Lake Louise and St. Moritz respectively.^[7] At the Winter Olympics, Gagnon crashed out of the slalom run of the combined, dislocating her shoulder,^[8] before failing to finish the super-G and giant slalom, and securing a ninth place in the slalom. She finished thirteenth in the overall World Cup standings and sixth in slalom.^[6]

In January 2022, Gagnon was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.^[9][10]

Gagnon was the third of five siblings and left the family home at age twelve to pursue her education and ski racing in Mont-Sainte-Anne and Quebec City. Her childhood idols included Mélanie Turgeon, Geneviève Simard, and Erik Guay.^[1]

Gagnon has been in a relationship with American alpine racer Travis Ganong since 2008.^[5][11] The pair met through mutual friend Louis-Pierre Hélie;^[1] in 2014, the couple moved to a new home in Lake Tahoe, California.^[7][6] They became engaged at the Matterhorn on 15 September 2021.^[12] They married in July 2024.