- Émilie Mondor
Émilie Mondor (
April 29 1981 –September 9 2006 ) was a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres.She was born in
Mascouche, Quebec in 1981. Mondor studied atMcGill University , later moving toSimon Fraser University to study and train.She finished twelfth in
5000 metres at the2003 World Championships in Athletics , eighth in the long race at the2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and seventeenth overall in the 5000 m at the2004 Summer Olympics . In late 2003 she became the first Canadian woman to dip under 15:00 in the 5000m before competing in the 2004 Olympic 5000m race and coming 17th .Mondor was unable to compete for much of 2005 and 2006 due to a rare medical condition affecting the strength of her bones. After drug treatments for the condition, she placed second in a 10
kilometre road race held inToronto on May 7, 2006.She died in a car accident on Highway 417 near
Hawkesbury, Ontario .External links
* [http://www.athleticscanada.com/article.asp?id=9276 Athletics Canada]
* [http://www.emiliemondor.com/bio.html Biography at official web site]
* [http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=177058&hubname= Notice of her death - Canadian Press article]
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