Pierre-Luc Thériault | |
Nickname: | Bobby |
Playingstyle: | Left-handed |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1993 |
Birth Place: | St-Fabien, Quebec, Canada |
Height: | 1.75m (05.74feet) |
Weight: | 75kg (165lb) |
Pierre-Luc Thériault (born October 25, 1993, in St-Fabien, Quebec) is a Canadian table tennis player. Pierre-Luc Thériault wanted to represent Canada since watching the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and seeing other athletes proudly perform for their countries. Thériault began playing for the Canadian Cadet National Team as a 13-year-old, progressing to the Canadian Junior National Team before joining the Canadian Senior National Team in 2010. That year he also debuted at the ITTF World Championships.
He has been on the Canadian World Championship Team ever since. Thériault's first exposure to multi-sport competition came as an alternate for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He was then part of Team Canada at the 2011 Pan Am Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Thériault also competed at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, winning bronze in the men's team event.[1] Among Thériault's career highlights are winning the singles titles at the North American Championships and North American Cup in 2012.