MAILLIARD Maria

World Championships

Year	Location	C1 200m	C1 5000m	C2 200m	C2 500m
2019	Szeged, HUN	4	2	-	8
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	-	3	13	9
2015	Milan, ITA	-	-	-	12
2014	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	6
2013	Duisburg, GER	-	-	-	3
2010	Poznan, POL	15	-	-	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	C1 200m	C2 500m
2019	Lima, PER	2	2

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	C1 200m	C1 1000m	C2 200m	C2 500m	C2 1000m
2018	Dartmouth, NS, CAN	2	1	1	3	1
2017	Ibarra, ECU	-	1	2	1	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	C1 200m	C2 500m
2021	1 x 2nd, 1 x 10th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 9th
2020	1 x 3rd	1 x 3rd
2019	1 x 8th	1 x 8th, 1 x 21st
2018	-	1 x 9th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2021	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Barnaul, RUS	49.297
3	2021	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Barnaul, RUS	2:06.566
3	2020	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	47.05
3	2020	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	2:02.91
8	2019	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	48.174
8	2019	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Poznan, POL	2:01.021
9	2021	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	2:06.98
9	2018	Canoe Double 500m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	2:11.696
10	2021	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	49.01
21	2019	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	DNS

Legend
C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Cote, Majo (Facebook profile, 27 Nov 2019; ciudaddeldeporte.com, 07 Aug 2012)

Reading sports books, painting, trekking, cycling, solving puzzles. (farodeportivo.cl, 14 Sep 2019)

Athlete, Student

Business Administration - Andres Bello National University, Vinya del Mar, CHI

Partner Raul

Spanish

Club Nautico Piraguistas de Laja [Chile]

Evidio Gonzalez [national], CUB

She represented Chile in open water swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (mercuriovalpo.cl, 22 Nov 2010)

In 2014 she suffered a tibial plateau fracture as a result of a longboarding accident, and she was unable to paddle for a year and a half. (tokyo2020.org, 13 Oct 2020)

She took up the sport in 2011. (farodeportivo.cl, 14 Sep 2019)

She was initially a swimmer and competed at an elite level. She was encouraged to begin paddling by coach Rolando Rill. "I was fed up with swimming, and was thinking about giving it up. One day I had lunch with Rolando Rill and he told me about canoeing. The first time I tried it I ended up with my legs all cut because of the fibreglass of the boat. But I am persistent, I started training, and before I knew it I was competing." (latercera.com, 22 Aug 2018; mercuriovalpo.cl, 22 Nov 2010; tokyo2020.org, 13 Oct 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to compete at the 2024 Games in Paris. (alairelibre.cl, 26 Aug 2019; tokyo2020.org, 13 Oct 2020)

Coach Rolando Rill, and her father. (Instagram profile, 22 Nov 2019; tokyo2020.org, 13 Oct 2020)

"You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do." (Twitter profile, 01 Aug 2020)

She was named 2019 Paddler of the Year by the Chilean Olympic Committee. (coch.cl, 11 Dec 2019)

In 2015 she received the Paddler of the Year Award from the Chilean Circle of Sports Journalists. (cartaabierta.cl, 01 Dec 2015)

She was named 2013 Athlete of the Year in the Biobio Region in Chile. (biobiodeportivo.cl, 14 Jan 2014)