Marie Patouillet

Marie Patouillet
Personal information
Born (1988-08-07) 7 August 1988 (age 36)
Versailles, France
Sport
Country France
SportCycling
Disability classC5
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Ind. pursuit C5
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Time trial C4–5
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Pursuit C5
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Road Race C4–5
Road World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Baie-Comeau Road race C5
Track World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Rio de Janeiro Scratch race C5
Gold medal – first place 2024 Rio de Janeiro Omnium C5
Silver medal – second place 2019 Apeldoorn Time trial C5
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Time trial C5
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Omnium C5
Silver medal – second place 2023 Glasgow 500m time trial C5
Silver medal – second place 2024 Rio de Janeiro 500m time trial C5
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Scratch race C5
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Glasgow Omnium C5

Marie Patouillet (born 7 August 1988) is a French cyclist who competes in C5 classification, physician, and LGBT+ activist.

Life

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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 a proud LGBT+ activist in France using British Olympiand and other gay paralympians as role models.[2]

Career

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Holmes, Jon. "Out gay cyclist Marie Patouillet wins gold at Paralympics before podium 'wobble'". OutSports. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
  2. ^ a b Holmes, Jon. "Team LGBTQ athletes on podium in Paris Paralympics' first medal event". OutSports. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  3. ^ "Marie Patouillet". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Résultat de la course: UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships". votrecourse.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
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