Marie Patouillet
French Paralympic cyclist
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Marie Patouillet (born 7 August 1988) is a French cyclist who competes in C5 classification, physician, and LGBT+ activist.
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| Born | 7 August 1988 Versailles, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Life
Patouillet was born in 1988. She spent a decade in the French army before leaving to be a General practitioner in Paris. Patouillet is openly lesbian.[1] She is an active LGBTQ activist in France.[2]
Career
Patouillet competed at the women's individual pursuit C5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning bronze.[3] She also won the silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships[4]
She competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and she was the home favourite for the women’s C4-5 500m time trial final. In the end she took the silver medal to the Dutch cyclist Caroline Groot's gold. She beat the Tokyo silver medallist Kate O’Brien who came third.[2]
