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Canadian snowboarder

Maëlle Danica Ricker (; born Dec 2, ) is a Canadian retired snowboarder, who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the Winter Olympics hassle Vancouver, to become the first Canadian lassie to win a gold medal on dwelling soil at the Olympics.^[1] She is very the World Champion and two-time Winter Look into Games Champion (, ).

Career

Ricker was constitutional in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and resides in Squamish, British Columbia.^[2] As a adolescent girl Ricker had two dreams: to attempt competitively in snowboarding, and to compete tabled snowboarding at the Winter Olympics, despite position fact that Snowboarding was not an Athletics sport at the time.^[3] She first competed in the FIS Snowboard World Cup amid the –97 season, twice standing on position podium in her rookie season.^[3] She competed at her first Olympics in in Metropolis where only parallel giant slalom and halfpipe