{{short description|Canadian kayaker}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Hugues Fournel |image = Hugues Fournel.jpg |caption = Fournel at the 2012 National Olympic Trials |nationality = Canadian |sport = Kayaking |club = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1988|08|05}} |birth_place = Lachine, Quebec |height = {{height|m=1.70}} |weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}} |turnedpro = |retired = |pb = |olympics = |worlds = |highestranking = |coaching = |updated = July 2012 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's Kayaking}} {{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold| 2011 Guadalajara | K-2 200 metres }} }}
'''Hugues Fournel''' (born 5 August 1988) is a Canadian kayaker. He was born in Lachine, Quebec.<ref name=sref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Hugues Fournel |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fo/hugues-fournel-1.html |accessdate=7 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216051037/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fo/hugues-fournel-1.html |archivedate=16 December 2012}}</ref> Fournel was the 2011 Pan American champion in the men's K-2 200 m together with Ryan Cochrane. He competed in K-2 200 and 1000 m together with Cochrane at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.<ref name="sref" />
On August 1, 2016 (after the suspension of the Russian crew) he and Cochrane was named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team in the men's K-2 200 m event.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/ryan-cochrane-hugues-fournel-added-canadian-olympic-team-for-men-200m.html|title=Ryan Cochrane, Hugues Fournel added to Canadian Olympic team for men's K2 200m|date=1 August 2016|website=www.cbc.ca/sports/|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=1 August 2016}}</ref> They finished last in the final.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/canoe-sprint-standings-cf-mens-kayak-double-200m|title=Rio 2016 - Men's Kayak Double 200m|date=18 August 2016|website=www.Rio2016.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826235424/https://www.rio2016.com/en/canoe-sprint-standings-cf-mens-kayak-double-200m|archive-date=26 August 2016|url-status=|access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref>
His father Jean and sister Emilie are also both Olympic kayakers.<ref name="sref" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ICF|hugues-fournel}} * {{Olympics.com profile|hugues-fournel}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fournel, Hugues}} Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:People from Lachine, Quebec Category:Canoeists from Montreal Category:Canadian male canoeists Category:Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic canoeists for Canada Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in canoeing Category:Canoeists at the 2011 Pan American Games Category:Université Laval alumni Category:Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Category:21st-century Canadian sportsmen Category:Medallists at the 2009 Canada Summer Games
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