Birth Place: | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1978 |
Maxime Boilard (sometimes listed as Maxim Boilard, born June 26, 1978) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s through 2004. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec. His career highlight was a fourth-place finish in the C-1 500 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He also won two silver medals in the C-4 1000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2002 and 2003. He was a silver medalist in the C-2 500 m event at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.[1]
Since his paddling career ended, Boilard has become a successful businessperson in Quebec, founding CANU, a company that supports corporate leadership development. In 2008 and 2012, Boilard served as a French-language analyst for Radio Canada and Reseau des Sports at the Olympic Games, covering canoe-kayak and rowing.[2] In 2008, he was selected as a member of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference.[3]