Laurence St-Germain

Biography

Laurence St-Germain made her Olympic debut at PyeongChang 2018 where she finished 15th in the slalom. She posted a 17^th-place finish in the slalom in her second Olympic appearance at Beijing 2022.

St-Germain stunned everyone when she won slalom gold at the 2023 FIS World Championships. She became Canada’s first world champion in slalom since Anne Heggtveit won Olympic gold at Squaw Valley 1960, which doubled as the world championships. She was Canada’s first world champion in an alpine technical event since 1976.

The victory was surprising because St-Germain had never stood on a FIS World Cup podium. Less than a month later, she recorded her career-best World Cup slalom result when she finished fifth in Are, Sweden. As of January 2026, she has 15 career top 10 performances in slalom on the World Cup circuit.

St-Germain made her debut at the FIS World Championships in 2019 where she finished sixth in the slalom, ranking her as the top Canadian woman in the event.

St-Germain had her most consistent World Cup season in 2020-21 when she finished eighth in the overall World Cup slalom standings. She posted four top 10 results in slalom, including a then-career-best sixth place in the event.

Since her world title, St-Germain has had to deal with various injuries. In December 2023, she sustained an ankle injury when she straddled a gate hard during training. She only competed in three slalom races throughout the rest of the World Cup season. In the summer of 2025, she missed all the national team’s training camps while dealing with pain in her left knee. She missed the start of the World Cup season but was back racing in late November.

In her World Cup debut in November 2015, St-Germain broke into the top 30 in the slalom in Aspen, Colorado. St-Germain had joined the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for the 2015-16 season after finishing the previous year ranked fourth in the Nor-Am Cup slalom standings. She finished both the 2015-16 and 2016-17 season ranked second in the Nor-Am Cup slalom standings.

At the same time she began to represent Canada internationally, St-Germain was also competing collegiately for the University of Vermont. As a freshman in 2015, she finished 10th in the slalom at the NCAA Championships and was named a Second Team All-American. In her sophomore year, she was the runner-up in the slalom at the NCAA Championships to earn First Team All-American honours. After redshirting in 2017-18 to focus on Olympic qualification, she returned for her senior year in 2018-19 and became the first skier in school history (and just the sixth woman ever) to sweep the slalom and giant slalom titles at the NCAA Championships. The Catamounts finished second overall in the team standings.

A Little More About Laurence

Outside Interests: Studied computer science at the University of Vermont… Odds and Ends: Older brother William was also a member of the national development team and they skied together at the University of Vermont…