Marie Patouillet | |
Birth Date: | 1988 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Versailles, France |
Sport: | Cycling |
Disability Class: | C5 |
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Marie Patouillet (born 7 August 1988) is a French cyclist who competes in C5 classification, physician, and LGBT+ activist.
Patouillet was born in 1988. She spent a decade in the French army before leaving to be a General Practitioner in Paris. Patouillet is openly lesbian.[1] She is a proud LGBT+ activist in France using British Olympiand and other gay paralympians as role models.
Patouillet competed at the women's individual pursuit C5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning bronze.[2] She also won the silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships[3]
She competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and she was the home favourite for the women’s C4-5 500m time trial final. In the end she took the silver medal to the Dutch cyclist Caroline Groot's gold. She beat the Tokyo silver medallist Kate O’Brien who came third.[4]