Michelle Dumaresq ( born Michelle Dumaresq ; born June 15, 1970 ; Canada ) is a cyclist , former Canadian Downhill Champion, trans-woman [1] . Participates in women's downhill competitions. She went in for sports in 2001, six years after she made the transition . She was noticed when she was driving around Vancouver with several leading female bikers. Dumaresc openly says that she is a trans woman.
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Content
- 1 Sports career
- 2 Transgender
- 3 Filmography
- 4 notes
Sports career
The first event in which Dumaresk participated was the Bear Mountain race, which took place in May 2001. She performed in the amateur category and became a winner. At the same time, her result was 2.5 seconds better than the winner in the category for professionals. After two more races with her participation, due to complaints from other female athletes, Cycling BC suspended her license.
Cycling BC and the held a meeting with local bike organizers and initially decided to revoke Dumaresk’s license to participate in races. However, after discussing the situation with the UCI , it was decided to allow Dumaresk to compete in the women's category.
In April 2002, she was given a license giving the right to compete in the women's racing category. Three weeks later, she participated in competitions and took third place. The following week, she took first place, beating her rivals by 10 seconds, which led to a wave of protests among both women and men. Petitions were created and signed demanding the disqualification of Dumaresc, but since she had a racing license, the request was rejected, and her first professional victory among women was left unchanged.
Dumaresc won the 2002 Canada Cup series, as a result of which she moved to the Canadian national team.
Later, in September 2002, she became one of Canada's representatives at the Downhill World Championships. Due to technical problems with her bike, Dumaresc finished 24th.
In 2003, Dumaresc won the national championship of Canada and again represented Canada at the world championship of the same year. She repeated her victory in 2004 and took 17th place at the 2004 World Mountain Bike Championship held in in France .
At the 2006 Canadian Championships, a protest by one of her rivals during the awards ceremony again drew attention to Dumaresk’s participation in women. Danika Schroeter , runner-up partner, jumped onto the podium and helped Schröter put on a T-shirt with the words “100% Pure Woman Champ” (“100% pure female competition”).
Transgender
Dumaresk underwent surgery to correct sex in 1996 , after a long course of hormone therapy.
Since 2004, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed transgender people to compete in the gender category that a person belongs to after a transgender transition. For trans women, if this person’s blood testosterone level does not exceed 10 nmol / L for at least the previous 12 months. In the case of Dumaresk, she underwent a gonadectomy six years before the start of the competition and took hormones for more than six years.
Filmography
- "100% Woman" - a documentary about Michel Dumaresc [2]
- “Dirt Divas” is a documentary starring Michel Dumaresk [3]
Notes
- ↑ Stepfather Kardashian, Lewis manager and 10 other athletes who changed sex . Eurosport (February 4, 2015). Date of treatment April 3, 2019.
- ↑ 100% Woman . Date of treatment April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Michelle Dumaresq - Champion Downhill Mountain Bike Racer ai.eecs.umich.edu. Date of treatment April 3, 2019.