LANDRY Ghislaine

Date of Birth: 27 Apr 1988

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.63/5'4''

Place of birth: TORONTO, ON

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : TORONTO, ON

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Rugby Sevens	Women CAN Canada	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Pool B #W02 CAN Canada 33 BRA Brazil 0	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Pool B #W07 CAN Canada 12 FIJ Fiji 26	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Pool B #W14 CAN Canada 0 FRA France 31	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Placing 9-12 #W19 CAN Canada 45 BRA Brazil 0	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Placing 9-10 #W28 CAN Canada 24 KEN Kenya 10	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2013	Moscow, RUS
7	Women	2018	San Francisco, CA, USA

World Rugby Sevens Series

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2020
3	Women	2019
3	Women	2016/2017
4	Women	2018

World Rugby Sevens Series - Australia

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Sydney, NSW, AUS
2	Women	2020	Sydney, NSW, AUS
3	Women	2018	Sydney, NSW, AUS
5	Women	2019	Sydney, NSW, AUS

World Rugby Sevens Series - Canada

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2017	Langford, BC, CAN
5	Women	2019	Langford, BC, CAN
5	Women	2018	Langford, BC, CAN

World Rugby Sevens Series - Dubai

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2019	Glendale, CO, USA
2	Women	2018	Dubai, UAE
4	Women	2017	Dubai, UAE
6	Women	2016	Dubai, UAE

World Rugby Sevens Series - France

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Biarritz, FRA
3	Women	2018	Paris, FRA
3	Women	2017	Clermont-Ferrand, FRA

World Rugby Sevens Series - Japan

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2019	Kitakyushu, JPN
2	Women	2017	Kitakyushu, JPN

World Rugby Sevens Series - USA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	Glendale, CO, USA
3	Women	2017	Las Vegas, NV, USA
6	Women	2019	Glendale, CO, USA

Ghis, Pocket Rocket (olympic.ca, 23 May 2015; theglobeandmail.com, 27 May 2016)

Occupation:

Human Movement Studies, Physiology - St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, CAN

Wife Michaela, one child

Languages spoken:

Mick Byrne [national], AUS

Her training was disrupted ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after injuring two discs in her back in the months before the tournament. (thestar.com, 01 May 2020)

She tore her plantar fascia [heel] in the final of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. The injury kept her out of action for eight months. (thestar.com, 01 May 2020)

She began playing rugby at age 14 at school in Toronto, ON, Canada. (olympic.ca, 23 May 2015; canadianathletesnow.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

She was inspired by her older sister Alexie. (HSBC YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (thestar.com, 01 May 2020)

Her family, coaches John Tait and Sandro Fiorino. (HSBC YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2019; canadianathletesnow.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

Philosophy:

"The higher you progress in your sport, the harder it gets. The fitter and stronger you get, doesn't make it easier. It just means you can push even harder." (canadianathletesnow.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

"Down this rocky trail I find, the roughest path is in my mind." [Dan Baker] (canadianathletesnow.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

She was named in the Dream Team for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 World Series. She also received the Don't Crack Under Pressure award in recognition of her match-winning conversion at the 2019 Kitakyushu Sevens tournament. (world.rugby, 16 Sep 2020, 16 Jun 2019)

In 2011 Rugby Canada named her Sevens Player of the Year. (olympic.ca, 08 Jul 2013; cis-sic.ca, 27 Jan 2012)

During her time at university, she won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport [CIS] Player of the Year award in 2007 and 2008, and also received the CIS Rookie of the Year award in 2006. (olympic.ca, 23 May 2015, 08 Jul 2013)

General Interest

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
She served as a member of the Rugby Canada Players' Committee between 2017 and 2018. (rugby.ca, 13 Feb 2019, 14 Feb 2018)

SIZE
She has consistently been told that she is too short and too light to play rugby, and says this is the biggest obstacle she's had to face in the sport. "I was successful at junior level, but as I moved up to seniors I was told by a coach I was too small and trained on my own for four years on a non-travelling roster. I never thought about not making it, I did it because I loved it and had internal drive to succeed. I chose to prove them wrong. Before John Tait there was a lack of trust among national coaches that I was able, physical enough, big enough, skilled enough, to play at the senior international level." (HSBC YouTube channel, 08 Mar 2019; canadianathletesnow.ca, 20 Nov 2015; thestar.com, 12 Jun 2015)

Milestones

She was part of the team that won Canada's first Olympic women's rugby sevens medal, a bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (world.rugby,08 Aug 2016)

Social Media

Legend

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

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