17 Facts About Meagan Duhamel

Meagan Duhamel was born on December 8,1985 and is a Canadian pair skater.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, 32-year-old Meagan Duhamel won a gold medal as part of the figure skating team event, becoming one of the oldest Olympic champions in figure skating.

Meagan Duhamel was born on December 8,1985, in Sudbury, Ontario, and raised in the Lively neighbourhood.

Meagan Duhamel is of Finnish descent on her mother's side and French on her father's, Duhamel is an old French surname meaning "Of the Hamlet", implying her French ancestors were from a small farming village.

Meagan Duhamel began skating when she was three years old, in 1988.

Meagan Duhamel competed in both singles and pairs for several years.

Meagan Duhamel teamed up with Ryan Arnold in the spring of 2004.

Meagan Duhamel had a stress fracture and was off the ice for four months.

Meagan Duhamel withdrew from both her Grand Prix events due to injury.

Meagan Duhamel competed at the 2007 Canadian Championships and placed sixth; it was the last time she competed as a single skater.

In June 2007, Meagan Duhamel moved to Montreal and teamed up with Craig Buntin.

In November 2008, during the long program at the Trophee Eric Bompard, Meagan Duhamel accidentally sliced Buntin's hand a minute into the program, on their side-by-side salchow jumps, and blood dripped onto the ice; the pair stopped to get his hand bandaged and then resumed the program to win the bronze medal.

At a coach's suggestion, Meagan Duhamel had a tryout with Eric Radford and they decided to compete together.

Meagan Duhamel had not done a triple twist since 2005, and the new pair only began performing it before the Canadian Championships.

In spring of 2019, it was announced that Meagan Duhamel would move to Oakville, Ontario to coach at the Skate Oakville Skating Club with husband, Bruno Marcotte.

Meagan Duhamel competed on the sixth season of the CBC series Battle of the Blades, partnered with retired NHL player Wojtek Wolski.

Meagan Duhamel stated that she and Radford had had a verbal agreement to continue doing show skating, which had included shows being arranged while he was trying out with James, and that she felt "blindsided" by the news.