SIMONEAU Jacqueline

Artistic Swimming

Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1996

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Place of birth: MONTREAL, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : MONTREAL, QC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Swimming	Duet CAN Canada	5
	Team CAN Canada	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Free Routine Preliminary	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Technical Routine	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Free Routine Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Team Technical Routine	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Team Free Routine	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Duet
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (179.892)

World Championships - Solo and Duet events

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR
2019	Gwangju, KOR	5th (89.293)	5th (90.700)	6th (88.865)	7th (89.766)
2017	Budapest, HUN	5th (89.500)	6th (90.133)	7th (87.652)	7th (89.000)
2015	Kazan, RUS	6th (89.023)	6th (90.233)	6th (89.417)	7th (89.367)

World Championships - Team events

Year	Location	Team TR	Team FR	FR Combination	Teams Highlights
2019	Gwangju, KOR	7th (89.499)	7th (90.100)	-	F (89.933)
2017	Budapest, HUN	7th (86.204)	7th (88.800)	-	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	6th (88.888)	7th (90.000)	6th (90.367)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	5th (90.300)	6th (88.620)	5th (90.410)	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	Duet	Team
2019	Lima, PER	1st (180.034)	1st (179.673)

Legend
TR - Technical Routine, FR - Free Routine, PR - Preliminary Round, X - Mixed

Collecting snow globes from different countries, cooking, baking, learning about human anatomy, reading, golf, horse riding. (olympic.ca, 11 Aug 2019; synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016)

Occupation:

Athlete, Public Speaker

Health Science - Vanier College, Saint-Laurent, QC, CAN

Languages spoken:

English, French

Katarzyna Kulesza [national]; Karine Dore [national]

2012 for Canada (huffingtonpost.ca, 11 Jul 2015)

She took up the sport at age eight. She was at diving practice when she became intrigued by the artistic swimmers at the other end of the pool. (synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016; cbc.ca, 11 Jul 2015; synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016)

As a child she practised artistic swimming, diving, water polo and swimming, but narrowed the sports down to diving and artistic swimming. She had a diary listing the pros and cons of both, and was eventually forced to choose when she was scheduled to compete in both sports on the same day. "I always loved participating in many different sports as a kid and had trouble picking just one. In my search for finding a sport that would cover many different aspects, I discovered synchronised swimming. It is a sport that requires cross training and I can do everything that I love - running, weights, speed swimming, diving, water polo, trampoline and much more." (olympic.ca, 11 Aug 2019; synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016; cbc.ca, 11 Jul 2015; synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016)

To finish in the top five in the duet event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Panam Sports Channel YouTube channel, 05 Feb 2020)

Canadian artistic gymnast Kyle Shewfelt, Russian artistic swimmer Natalia Ishchenko. (journalmetro.com, 02 Oct 2017; synchro.ca, 16 Aug 2016)

Philosophy:

"A healthy mind in a healthy body." (olympic.ca, 11 Aug 2019)

She was named 2012 Athlete of the Year by Synchro Canada. (synchro.ca, 2013)

General Interest

General
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
She believes her physique has made it harder for her to progress in the sport. "When I first started the sport, it was actually hard to share my goals with my coaches and teammates because I am not a naturally-built synchronised swimmer. I'm not naturally tall, like Natalia Ischenko who is gorgeous, tall and with long legs. That's one thing I didn't have. And natural flexibility is also something I didn't have." (insidesynchro.org, 15 Nov 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She is a spokesperson for Coeliaque Quebec after being diagnosed with Coeliac disease when she was younger. "I thought that I could no longer play sports. When I got my diagnosis I thought my whole world was falling apart and I could never achieve my dreams. But that's not what a diagnosis should mean. It should rather say that we will be taken care of and well supervised." She has also worked with other charities including Fondation des Etoiles, the Make a Wish Foundation, and Fast and Female. (vaniercollege.qc.ca, 30 Jun 2020; journaldechambly.com, 23 May 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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