Meagan Duhamel

Meagan Duhamel (born December 8, 1985) is a retired Canadian pair skater.

Meagan Duhamel was born on December 8, 1985, in Sudbury, Ontario, and raised in the Lively neighbourhood.

She is of Finnish descent on her mother's side and French on her father's, Duhamel is an old French surname meaning "Of the Hamlet", implying her French ancestors were from a small farming village.

She is studying holistic health.

Duhamel began skating when she was three years old, in 1988.

At age 14, she moved to Barrie, Ontario to train at the Mariposa School of Skating.

Duhamel competed in both singles and pairs for several years.

She teamed up with Ryan Arnold in the spring of 2004.

Duhamel and her previous partner, Ryan Arnold, were the first pair to land a side-by-side triple Lutz jump in competition, which they did at the 2005 Canadian Championships.

At the 2005 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, they became the first team to land a throw triple Lutz jump in international competition.

They were the first skaters to land a side-by-side triple Lutz jump in competition, which they did at the 2005 Canadian Championships.

At the 2005 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, they became the first team to land a throw triple Lutz jump in international competition.

They ended their partnership in March 2006.

Duhamel had a stress fracture and was off the ice for four months.

She withdrew from both her Grand Prix events due to injury.

She competed at the 2007 Canadian Championships and placed sixth; it was the last time she competed as a single skater.

She was coached by Lee Barkell.

In June 2007, Duhamel moved to Montreal and teamed up with Craig Buntin.

She became a vegan in December 2008.

In January 2008, the pair won the bronze medal at the Canadian Nationals but during the exhibition Buntin injured his shoulder, with which he had previous problems, as a result of a timing issue.

They missed the Four Continents but competed at the 2008 World Championships in Sweden on March 19, 2008, despite the shoulder still being a problem, and finished 6th.

However, their participation aggravated Buntin's injury, tearing the rotator cuff, the labrum and three tendons; he had surgery in April and the recovery took seven to eight months.

They could not practice lifts until two weeks before 2008 Skate America so they worked on adding variations to their elements, such as a spread eagle entrance into a lift and a death spiral with the opposite hand.

In November 2008, during the long program at the Trophée Eric Bompard, Duhamel accidentally sliced Buntin's hand a minute into the program, on their side-by-side salchow jumps, and blood dripped onto the ice; the pair stopped to get his hand bandaged and then resumed the program to win the bronze medal.

With previous partner Craig Buntin, Duhamel became the 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist and a three-time Canadian national medallist (one silver, two bronze).

In July 2010, Buntin announced his retirement from competitive figure skating.

Having experienced two stress fractures, a bulging disc in her back, and a nerve dysfunction in her leg, Duhamel also considered retiring but soon decided to continue competing.

At a coach's suggestion, Duhamel had a tryout with Eric Radford and they decided to compete together.

They won a silver medal at the 2011 Canadian Championships and were assigned to the 2011 Four Continents Championships and the 2011 World Championships.

At Four Continents, the pair won a silver medal.

During the short program at the 2011 World Championships, Radford's nose was broken when Duhamel's elbow hit him on the descent from a triple twist, their first element – she opened up too early.

During the 2014 Olympics, Duhamel and Radford became the first pair to land a side-by-side triple Lutz jump at any Winter Olympic competition.

In July 2014, it was publicly announced that she was engaged to her coach Bruno Marcotte.

With partner Eric Radford, she is a two-time world champion (2015, 2016), a 2018 Olympic gold medallist in the team event, a 2014 Olympic silver medallist in the team event, a 2018 Olympic bronze medallist in the pairs event, a two-time Four Continents champion (2013, 2015), the 2014–15 Grand Prix Final champion, and a seven-time Canadian national champion (2012–18).

The couple married on June 5, 2015, in Bermuda.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, 32-year-old Duhamel won a gold medal as part of the figure skating team event, becoming one of the oldest Olympic champions in figure skating.

Three days later, during the individual pairs free skate, Duhamel and Radford became the first team to complete a quadruple throw jump at any Winter Olympic competition when she landed their throw quadruple Salchow.

In August 2018, Greater Sudbury City Council renamed the street in Lively that Duhamel grew up on in her honour.

Their daughter Zoey was born October 25, 2019.

Duhamel and Marcotte welcomed another daughter, Miya, on July 14, 2022.