Audrey Lamothe

Biography

After competing primarily as a soloist in 2022 and 2023, Audrey Lamothe turned her focus to training in the duet and team events to achieve her Olympic dream of competing at Paris 2024. 

At the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, Lamothe was a member of the Canadian team that won bronze. She also finished fifth in the duet with Olena Verbinska. 

In advance of the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, Lamothe was paired in the duet with two-time Olympian Jacqueline Simoneau, who had decided to return to artistic swimming after a two-year retirement. In their first competition together, they placed fifth in the duet free and seventh in the duet technical at the worlds. Lamothe also competed in the team technical routine, helping Canada qualify a full team in addition to the duet for Paris 2024. 

In May 2024, Lamothe and Simoneau won bronze medals in the duet technical and duet free at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup that served as the Olympic test event of the newly built Aquatics Centre in Paris. They followed up with silver medals in both routines at the next World Cup stop at home in Markham, Ontario. Lamothe was also part of a silver medal in the team free routine at the World Cup in Paris and then helped Canada win medals in all three team routines at the World Cup in Canada. 

Lamothe joined the senior national team program in 2021. She competed at her first World Aquatics Championships in 2022, placing in the top 10 in both solo events. At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, Lamothe finished fourth in solo free and sixth in solo technical. That followed up her bronze medals in both routines at the 2023 World Cup Super Final. 

A Little More About Audrey 

Getting into the Sport: Started artistic swimming at age 5 and began competing at age 8… Loves that artistic swimming brings together so many sports that she enjoys, like swimming, dancing, and diving… Outside Interests: Enjoys cooking, reading, listening to podcasts… Would like to work in the finance field… Odds and ends: Used to hate doing her hair for competitions when she was younger; when she once had two events in two days, she decided to sleep with the gelatin in her hair… Inspired by Olympians Karine Thomas and Jacqueline Simoneau… Favourite motto: “Work hard, pays off”