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Gaétan T. Boucher OC CQ (born May 10, 1958) is a former Canadian speed skating Olympic champion. Biography. Boucher first trained in ice hockey, the leading sport in Canada but then changed to speed skating after winning a national title in 1972.
Sep 18, 2011 · Gaétan Boucher is a four-time Olympic medallist in long track speed skating. At just 14, Boucher won his first Canadian title. Realizing his great potential, at the early age of 17 Boucher participated in his first Olympic Winter Games at Innsbruck 1976.
Gaétan Boucher, O.C. (né à Charlesbourg le 10 mai 1958) est un patineur de vitesse sur longue piste québécois quadruple médaillé olympique. Il conserva le titre d'olympien canadien le plus décoré des jeux d'hiver jusqu'aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002.
Feb 23, 2010 · In 1977 he was world indoor speed-skating champion and in 1978, 1980 and 1982 he finished second at the more prestigious World Sprint Speed-skating Championships. Canada's greatest speed skater, Boucher won two gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games (Canapress Photo Services).
Biography. In an era where speed skating was not a popular sport in Canada, Gaétan Boucher’s first calling on the ice was hockey but, after winning his first Canadian Championship at the age of 14, he realized that speed skating was his future and participated in his first Winter Olympics in 1976, at the age of 17.
Jan 7, 2022 · Gaétan Boucher's unprecedented success on the speed skating oval during the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Winter Games is a signature moment in Canadian Olympic hist...
At the Sarajevo Games in 1984 he earned a bronze medal in the 500m and then beat Sergei Khlebnikov by 83 hundredths of a second at 1,000m to gain his first gold medal. Two days later, the marketing student from Quebec went on to win double Olympic gold with another exploit in the 1,500m event.
