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Marie-Philip Poulin | Olympic Champion

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From Beauceville, Quebec

Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau is an ice hockey forward. Poulin as a member of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

  • Born in 1991 in Beauceville, Quebec.

In 2010 she had been the youngest member of the team (18 years old) that won gold in Vancouver.

Marie-Philip had started figure skating when she was four but didn’t like it.

She started playing hockey at age five.


 

Beauceville is a city in the Municipalité régionale de comté Robert-Cliché in Quebec. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region. The population was 6,354 (2011).

 
Beauceville – Début du siècle

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