Richard Legendre

{{Short description|Canadian tennis player}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Richard Legendre | birth_date = January 19, 1953 | occupation = {{hlist|[[Tennis player]]|[[Politician]]}} | years_active = 1972-1973 }} '''Richard Legendre''' (born January 19, 1953, in Montmagny, Quebec) is a former professional [[tennis]] player and politician in [[Quebec]], Canada.

== Tennis == Legendre was born in [[Montmagny, Quebec|Montmagny]], [[Quebec]]. He once represented [[Canada]] at the [[Davis Cup]] and had a career-high tennis ranking of World No. 232 in singles (December 1978). He played [[NCAA]] collegiate tennis at [[Florida State University]] in 1972 and 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-tennis/archive/fsu-m-tennis-alltimedual.html |title=Florida State University Official Athletic Site - Men's Tennis |accessdate=2009-09-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034032/http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-tennis/archive/fsu-m-tennis-alltimedual.html |archivedate=2011-07-27 }}</ref>

== Politics == He was the Quebec minister of sports in [[Bernard Landry]]'s cabinet, after being elected as a Member of the [[National Assembly of Quebec]] for the riding of [[Blainville (provincial electoral district)|Blainville]] in 2001. In 2005 he was a candidate in the [[Parti Québécois]]'s [[2005 Parti Québécois leadership election|leadership election]], a bid notably supported by former Quebec minister [[François Legault]] and [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]] and [[olympic medalist]] [[Bruny Surin]]. Legendre placed third with 7.5% of the vote.

In the [[2007 Quebec general election|2007 elections]], Legendre was surprisingly defeated by the [[Action democratique du Quebec]]'s [[Pierre Gingras]] who was a former mayor for the City of [[Blainville, Quebec|Blainville]]. The party nearly won every seat in the lower Laurentians region.<ref>{{cite web| archive-url=https://archive.today/20071025154445/http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/quebec2007/archives/2007/03/20070326-235511.html | archive-date=2007-10-25 | url=http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/quebec2007/archives/2007/03/20070326-235511.html | title=L'ADQ déloge le PQ dans les Laurentides}}</ref> Legendre was Vice-President of [[Montreal Impact (1992–2011)|Montreal Impact]]; he was nominated on August 13, 2007.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.impactmontreal.com/Team/Staff.aspx?language=EN&Category=2| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070520010227/http://www.impactmontreal.com/Team/Staff.aspx?language=EN&Category=2| archive-date = 2007-05-20| title = Staff}}</ref>

He's now teaching at HEC Montreal, and regularly appears on TVA Sports morning show Les Partants commenting on economic sports news.

==Electoral record (partial)== {{Quebec provincial by-election, October 1, 2001/Blainville}}

== See also == *[[2005 Parti Québécois leadership election]] *[[Quebec sovereignty movement]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{ATP|id=L125}} * {{Quebec MNA biography|legendre-richard-5783}} *[http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/biographies/721.html Bilan du Siècle biography]

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