Axelle Crevier (born March 22, 1997) is a Canadian

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with t ...

player. She plays for Canada's national women's water polo team.

Career highlights

Youth competitor

As a youth competitor, Crevier helped her team win silver at the 2013 Pan American Youth Championships and at the 2014 FINA World Youth Championships the following year. In 2015, the team finished 4th place.

Senior competitor

Crevier has participated in multiple

FINA Water Polo World League The FINA Water Polo World League was an international water polo league organized by FINA, which plays annually, typically from winter through to June. League play featured continental tournaments for men and women, from which the top teams emerge ...

championships, helping her team finish 6th place in 2014 and 2015 and 7th place in 2016. In 2017, she helped the team finish 4th at the

FINA World Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...

. The team would later go on to win silver in the FINA Water Polo World League. In 2018, her team ranked 4th at the FINA Water Polo World League and 6th at the FINA World Cup. Crevier was the youngest player of Canada's women’s water polo team to compete at the Lima 2019 Pan Am Games. Winning silver, the team secured their ticket to the

2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

. She also competed at the

2019 FINA World Championships The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July 2019. The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues.

, where the team finished in 9th place.

2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Crevier scored eight goals, with Team Canada finishing seventh after beating Team China 16-7.

Personal life

Crevier's mother

Marie-Claude Deslières Marie-Claude Deslières (born 1 April 1966) is a Canadian water polo player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics. See also * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo This is a list of World A ...

was on the first Canadian women’s Olympic water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics, and at the

2012 London Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

was the first woman to referee an Olympic final. Deslières was also one of Canada's international officials at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Crevier is the youngest of three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crevier, Axelle 1997 births Canadian female water polo players Olympic water polo players of Canada Water polo players from Montreal Living people Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics