Hugo Barrette (born 4 July 1991) is a Canadian

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, specializing in

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s. Barrette is from the

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and now lives in

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, in the USA.

Records

On 28 August 2014 at

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, he set a new Canadian record in the flying 200 m time trial of 9.77 seconds. The following day, he broke the 1 km against the clock record with a time of 1:00:9. With his teammates

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and Stéphane Cossette, he also holds the Canadian record in team sprints; the team achieved a time of 43.922 seconds at the Panamerican Cycling Championships in

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on 7 February 2013.

Injuries

In 2015, Hugo Barrette survived a horrific crash while training for a UCI World Cup in

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, with two broken lumbar vertebrae, a broken nose, split lip, concussion, neck dislocation and severe contusions. At the World Track Cycling Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, Hugo Barrette had an accident as he exited the fourth turn at full speed while the German Lea Sophie Friedrich was climbing the track. During the same year, in 2019, he fell off his bike and broke his scapula, one of the strongest bones. Since he had qualified to represent Canada at the

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, the postponement of one year of the Tokyo Olympics was a blessing.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Hugo Barrette represented Canada at the

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