Éric Bédard
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Born | December 17, 1976 (1976-12-17) (age 47) Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Éric Bédard (born December 17, 1976, in Sainte-Thècle, Quebec) is a Canadian short track speed skater who has won 4 Olympic medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze). He participated in three individual events at the 2006 Winter Olympics and finished fourth in the 500 meters. He also led a team into the 5000 meter relay, winning the silver medal. He has been a longtime member of Canada's short track team and has won four medals in three Olympic games: bronze in the 1,000 meters in Nagano, and two golds and a silver in the 5,000 meter relay. He has also had a lot of success at the World Championships, capturing 10 medals, including three golds (5,000 m relay in 2005 and 1998 and 500 m in 2000).
Bédard was national squad coach of Germany from 2008 until 2010.[1] From 2010 until 2014 he coached the Italy national team.[2] From 2018-2020 Bédard coached the Canadian national team. [3] Since 2020, Bédard has worked for Nagano Skate. [4]
See also
References
- ^ http://shorttrack.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/wie-eric-bedard-ein-%C2%BBitaliener%C2%AB-wurde/ Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Bedard changes to Italy on German Shorttrack Newssite
- ^ https://olympic.ca/team-canada/eric-bedard/ Canadian Olympic Team Official Website
- ^ "Ex-Olympian Bedard named coach of Canadian men's short-track team".
- ^ "About Us".
External links
- Bedard's web site (in French)
- Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 March 2006)
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- 1992: Kim Ki-hoon, Lee Joon-ho, Mo Ji-soo, Song Jae-kun (KOR)
- 1994: Maurizio Carnino, Orazio Fagone, Hugo Herrnhof, Mirko Vuillermin (ITA)
- 1998: Éric Bédard, Derrick Campbell, François Drolet, Marc Gagnon (CAN)
- 2002: Éric Bédard, Marc Gagnon, Jonathan Guilmette, François-Louis Tremblay, Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)
- 2006: Ahn Hyun-soo, Lee Ho-suk, Oh Se-jong, Seo Ho-jin, Song Suk-woo (KOR)
- 2010: Charles Hamelin, François Hamelin, Olivier Jean, François-Louis Tremblay, Guillaume Bastille (CAN)
- 2014: Viktor An, Semion Elistratov, Vladimir Grigorev, Ruslan Zakharov (RUS)
- 2018: Shaoang Liu, Shaolin Sándor Liu, Viktor Knoch, Csaba Burján (HUN)
- 2022: Charles Hamelin, Steven Dubois, Pascal Dion, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Maxime Laoun (CAN)
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