SIMMERLING Georgia

Olympic Games

Year	Location	4km TP
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3

World Championships

Year	Location	3km IP	4km TP
2020	Berlin, GER	9	4
2019	Pruszkow, POL	-	4
2016	London, GBR	-	2

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	3km IP	4km TP
2019	Cochabamba, BOL	1	1

World Cup

Year	Location	4km TP
2019/2020	Brisbane, QLD, AUS	3
2019/2020	Cambridge, NZL	3
2018/2019	Cambridge, NZL	2

Legend
IP - Individual Pursuit, TP - Team Pursuit, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Gee (teamtwenty20.com, 15 Aug 2016)

Athlete

Partner Stephanie Labbe

English

Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club [Vancouver, BC, CAN]

Matt Shallcross [national], NZL

Her older brothers Christian and Julian have played Canadian football. Christian represented the Calgary Stampeders, and Julian played for the University of Calgary Dinos. Her partner Stephanie Labbe has played as goalkeeper for the Canada women's football team, and was part of the squad at the World Cup in 2011, 2015 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 16 Apr 2020; thetelegram.com, 02 Apr 2020; olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016)

She represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in 2010 and 2014, competing in alpine skiing in Vancouver and in freestyle skiing four years later in Sochi. She has also competed in road cycling at an elite level. (SportsDeskOnline, 15 Apr 2020; nsnews.com, 25 Feb 2020; teamtwenty20.com, 15 Aug 2016; cbc.ca, 12 Jan 2016; olympic.ca, 01 Jan 2016)

2016 for Canada, World Cup in Hong Kong, China (olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016)

In January 2018 she broke both her legs and damaged ligaments in her left knee in a ski cross crash. She did not compete in the sport again after the accident but returned to cycling training eight months later. (nsnews.com, 25 Feb 2020; cbc.ca, 26 Feb 2019)

In January 2017 she suffered a concussion, tore a ligament in her knee and a broke one of her ribs in a crash while competing in freestyle skiing at a World Cup event in Watles, Italy. (cbc.ca, 02 Feb 2017)

She broke her wrist while competing in ski cross at the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria. (olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016)

She fractured a bone in her finger while ski cross racing in Germany in February 2013. (firsttracksonline.com, 15 Feb 2013)

In February 2012 she broke three vertebrae [C7, T2 and T3] in her neck and back after falling during a ski cross race in Park City, UT, United States of America. She was in a full body brace for seven weeks, but did not have any serious permanent damage. (cbc.ca, 12 Jan 2016; nsnews.com, 20 Jan 2013)

She sustained a concussion and medial collateral ligament [MCL] damage in both knees during the 2010/11 alpine skiing season. (olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016)

She was airlifted to hospital after crashing during the super G at the 2010 World Cup super combined event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. She suffered facial bruises but no concussion. (nsnews.com, 20 Jan 2013)

In 2005 she accidentally skied off a cliff in Chile and suffered a compound fracture of her jaw and multiple broken teeth. (NOC Media Guide, 2014)

She first rode a track bike on a velodrome in June 2014 at a Cycling Canada talent identification camp in Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016; cbc.ca, 12 Jan 2016)

She used cycling as cross-training during her recovery after breaking her wrist at the 2015 World Freestyle Ski Championships in Kreischberg, Austria. She gave herself the goal of making the Canadian track cycling team, with the aim of competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She had already done a couple of camps with the track cycling development programme and knew that she would be a better fit for endurance racing than sprint racing. (olympic.ca, 07 Jul 2016; cbc.ca, 12 Jan 2016)

To compete in track cycling at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cbc.ca, 05 Oct 2016; Facebook page, 07 Jul 2016)

Competing in alpine skiing in front of a home crowd at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. (nsnews.com, 25 Feb 2020)

Canadian alpine skiers Britt Janyk, Emily Brydon and Kelly VanderBeek. (NOC Media Guide, 2014)

"Never stop believing in yourself. Dream big, and if you work hard, like really really hard, anything is possible." (nsnews.com, 25 Feb 2020)