Maxime Laoun

Biography

Maxime Laoun made his Olympic debut at Beijing 2022 where he was a member of the men’s 5000m relay team that won the gold medal. Laoun raced in the semifinal and stood on the top step of the podium alongside Pascal Dion, Steven Dubois, Charles Hamelin, and Jordan Pierre-Gilles.

Laoun first represented Canada internationally as a member of the men’s relay team at the 2014 World Junior Championships. He returned to the junior worlds the next two years, competing in all the individual events, and posted his best result in 2016 when he finished fourth in the 500m and eighth overall.

In January 2018, Laoun finished fourth overall at the Canadian Senior Selections competition. An ankle injury brought his season to an early end, but he had earned himself a spot on the National Team.

Laoun made the Canadian World Cup roster for the 2019-20 season. In his debut at the season-opener in Salt Lake City, he helped Canada win bronze in the men’s 5000m relay. 

Following the second stop of the season in Montreal, where he posted a top five finish in the 1000m, Laoun suffered a triple fracture of the tibia and a fractured fibula during a collision in training in November 2019. He underwent three surgeries and rehab before returning to training in May 2020.

Laoun was named to the Canadian team for the 2021 ISU World Short Track Championships where he competed in all three individual events as well as the men’s 5000m relay. He won his first world championship medal in 2022, taking bronze in Montreal with the 5000m relay. After a fourth-place finish with the men’s relay in 2023 and then not competing at the 2024 World Championships, Laoun became a world champion in 2025 with the men’s 5000m relay.

In 2024-25, Laoun was part of the Canadian Ice Maples that won the inaugural Team Crystal Globe on the newly formed ISU Short Track World Tour. He contributed to a second straight Team Crystal Globe in 2025-26.

At the Four Continents Championships in 2022-23, Laoun won bronze as a member of the mixed 2000m relay team and earned a top-five finish individually in the 500m.

A Little More About Maxime

Getting into the Sport: Started skating at age 3 and competing at age 5… Loves the speed and adrenaline of short track and that he can always push to be better… Outside Interests: Would like to be an optometrist and take over his father’s business… Grew up playing competitive golf, winning the Quebec Juvenile Championship… Also enjoys cooking, travelling, fishing, scuba diving… Odds and Ends: Is very superstitious about the clothes he wears when he races…