Marie-Pier Beaudet (born December 12, 1986) is a former

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who competed at three

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between 2004 and 2012. Beaudet made her international debut in 2002, and in addition to the Olympic Games has contested the

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, in which she won a silver medal in 2007, and the

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, in which she earned a bronze medal in 2010.

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Beaudet was born on December 12, 1986, in

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. She made her debut to the Canadian national team at the

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in 2002, and won her first international competition in

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that same year, a moment she reflected in 2015 as her greatest achievement. Following the 2012 Summer Olympics Beaudet took a year's break from archery to prioritise her mental health, returning to the sport in 2014. Beaudet announced her retirement in 2015 to focus on her nursing studies at Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon. ;Olympic Games Beaudet's selection to represent Canada at the

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made her the country's youngest ever Olympic archer at seventeen years old. Beaudet won selection to the

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in July 2008 after a successful appeal against the results of a national trial held in May, which Beaudet argued was not clarified prior to competition as the basis for Olympic selection. Beaudet entered the 2008 Games holding a

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of 53. She finished the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, which determined the seedings for the elimination rounds, in thirty-fourth position and advanced to the second round of the women's individual event after a narrow opening round win against India's Dola Banerjee. Beaudet was eliminated by her second round opponent

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of South Korea, who had earlier won gold medal in the women's team event. Beaudet qualified for the Canadian Olympic team for the

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shortly after winning a qualification spot for Canada in

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in April that year, having set a new Canadian national record points score of 1,340 from a maximum of 1,440 in the process. At the Games Beaudet concluded the ranking round in twenty-ninth position for the women's individual event with 645 points from a maximum of 720. ;Pan American and Commonwealth Games Beaudet won silver medal in the women's team recurve event the

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with teammates Kristen Niles and Kateri Vrakking, losing to Colombia in the final by two points. She was praised by the Canadian coach for adapting to shooting last in sequence within the team as opposed to her usual position as first. In July 2010 Beaudet was announced as a member of the Canadian team for the

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, where she won bronze medal in the women's team recurve event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beaudet, Marie-Pier 1986 births Living people Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2007 Pan American Games Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2011 Pan American Games Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canadian female archers Olympic archers for Canada Sportspeople from Quebec City Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in archery Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists in archery Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Sportswomen from Quebec 21st-century Canadian sportswomen

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