Hugo Barrette

Hugo Barrette (born 4 July 1991 in Cap-Aux-Meules, Quebec) is a Canadian cyclist, specializing in track time trials. Barrette is from the Magdalen Islands, Quebec and now lives in Santa Monica, California, in the USA.[1]

Hugo Barrette

Medal record
Representing  Canada
Men's track cycling
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 TorontoSprint
Gold medal – first place 2015 TorontoTeam sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2015 TorontoKeirin
Pan American Championships
Silver medal – second place2012 Mar del PlataTeam sprint
Silver medal – second place2013 Mexico CityTeam sprint
Silver medal – second place2014 AguascalientesKeirin
Silver medal – second place2015 SantiagoTeam sprint
Bronze medal – third place2015 SantiagoSprint

Records

On 28 August 2014 at Aguascalientes, he set a new Canadian record in the flying 200 m time trial of 9.77 seconds. The following day, he broke the 1 km against the clock record with a time of 1:00:9. With his teammates Joseph Veloce and Stéphane Cossette, he also holds the Canadian record in team sprints; the team achieved a time of 43.922 seconds at the Panamerican Cycling Championships in Mexico City on 7 February 2013.

Injuries

In 2015, Hugo Barrette survived a horrific crash while training for a UCI World Cup in Cali, Colombia, with two broken lumbar vertebrae, a broken nose, split lip, concussion, neck dislocation and severe contusions.[2] At the World Track Cycling Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, Hugo Barrette had an accident as he exited the fourth turn at full speed while the German Lea Sophie Friedrich was climbing the track.[3] During the same year, in 2019, he fell off his bike and broke his scapula, one of the strongest bones. Since he had qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[4] the postponement of one year of the Tokyo Olympics was a blessing.[5]

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Hugo Barrette represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6][7]

References
  1. Marc Durand, "Hugo Barrette: contre vents et marées", Radio Canada, 23 July 2014 (in French)
  2. "Hugo Barrette's Injury Recovery".
  3. "Hugo Barrette frôle la catastrophe" (in French).
  4. "Hugo Barrette". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  5. "Un athlete completement different".
  6. "Qualifying for Tokyo Olympics an unprecedented challenge because of COVID-19". torontosun. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  7. "Cycling Track BARRETTE Hugo". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
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