Axelle Crevier
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| National team | Canada women's waterpolo team | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 22, 1997 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Axelle Crevier (born March 22, 1997) is a Canadian water polo player. She plays for Canada's national women's water polo team.[1][2]
Career highlights
[edit]Youth competitor
[edit]As a youth competitor, Crevier helped her team win silver at the 2013 Pan American Youth Championships and at the 2014 FINA World Youth Championships the following year. In 2015, the team finished 4th place.
Senior competitor
[edit]Crevier has participated in multiple FINA Water Polo World League championships, helping her team finish 6th place in 2014 and 2015 and 7th place in 2016.
In 2017, she helped the team finish 4th at the FINA World Championships. The team would later go on to win silver in the FINA Water Polo World League.
In 2018, her team ranked 4th at the FINA Water Polo World League and 6th at the FINA World Cup.
Crevier was the youngest player of Canada's women’s water polo team to compete at the Lima 2019 Pan Am Games. Winning silver, the team secured their ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.[3] She also competed at the 2019 FINA World Championships, where the team finished in 9th place.
2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics
[edit]At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Crevier scored eight goals,[4] with Team Canada finishing seventh after beating Team China 16-7.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Crevier's mother Marie-Claude Deslières was on the first Canadian women’s Olympic water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics, and at the 2012 London Summer Olympics was the first woman to referee an Olympic final. Deslières was also one of Canada's international officials at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[6]
Crevier is the youngest of three children.
References
[edit]- ^ "Axelle Crevier". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ "Axelle CREVIER | Results | FINA Official". FINA - Fédération Internationale De Natation. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ "Water Polo | Athlete Profile: CREVIER Axelle - Pan American Games Lima 2019". 2020-01-12. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ "Axelle Crevier, le water-polo dans l'eau… et dans la peau". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ "Canada cruises to 7th place finish over China in water polo | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ "Water polo's Axelle Crevier happy to follow in her mother's Olympic wake". CBC Canada. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02.
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- 1997 births
- Canadian female water polo players
- Olympic water polo players for Canada
- Water polo players from Montreal
- Living people
- Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Water polo players at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games medalists in water polo
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Water polo players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen