Karen Paquin
Date of birth | August 3, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Quebec City, Quebec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record | ||
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Women's rugby union | ||
World Cup | ||
2014 France | ||
Women's rugby sevens | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Team | |
Pan American Games | ||
2015 Toronto | Team |
Karen Paquin (born August 3, 1987) is a Canadian rugby union player.[1]
International play
She represented Canada at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.[2][3] She was a member of Canada's women's sevens team that were runners-up at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia.[4]
She won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team.[1][5][6]
In 2016, Paquin was named to Canada's first ever women's rugby sevens Olympic team.[7]
Personal
She studied chemical engineering at Université Laval.[8]
References
- 1 2 "Karen Paquin". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ↑ Ben Kerr (June 30, 2014). "Canada’s Roster Announced for Women’s Rugby World Cup". lastwordonsports.com. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ↑ Bryan Kelly (July 31, 2014). "Canada roster announced for Women’s World Cup opener vs France". Rugby Canada Communications (BC Rugby.com). Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Squad Lists With RWC Totals" (PDF). rwcsevens.com. 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Canada's rugby sevens teams take gold". The Canadian Press. July 12, 2015. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Karen Paquin". Toronto2015.org. 2015 Pan American Games. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ↑ MacDonnell, Beth (July 8, 2016). "Historic first Canadian women selected for Olympic rugby at Rio 2016". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Les étoiles du rugby universitaire féminin dévoilées". RSEQ. October 28, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
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