{"id":18890,"date":"2011-09-18T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/lucille-lessard-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:26:04","slug":"lucille-lessard","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/lucille-lessard\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Lessard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terminant cinqui\u00e8me aux Championnats du monde de cible en 1975, Lucille Lessard repr\u00e9sentait un grand espoir pour <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1976-montreal\/\">Montr\u00e9al 1976<\/a> alors que le Canada tenait les Jeux olympiques \u00e0 la maison pour la premi\u00e8re fois. Cependant, elle n\u2019est pas parvenue \u00e0 se tailler une place au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe. M\u00eame si elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9e au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe canadienne pour <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1980-moscow\/\">Moscou 1980<\/a>, elle n\u2019a pas pu y participer en raison du boycottage canadien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 la seule femme du programme de tir \u00e0 l\u2019arc de son \u00e9cole secondaire quand elle a fait ses premiers pas dans le sport \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 13 ans par l\u2019entra\u00eeneur qui travaillait aussi aupr\u00e8s de l\u2019\u00e9quipe nationale. Athl\u00e8te de talent, Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 une nageuse et une patineuse artistique qui s\u2019est disloqu\u00e9 une \u00e9paule en tentant un double flip. Forc\u00e9e \u00e0 choisir un sport, elle a jet\u00e9 son d\u00e9volu sur le tir \u00e0 l\u2019arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le premier titre national de Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 remport\u00e9 dans les rangs juniors du tir \u00e0 l\u2019arc en 1973 (deuxi\u00e8me dans une \u00e9preuve de cible ext\u00e9rieure). En 1973, elle a remport\u00e9 le titre national junior de cible ext\u00e9rieur et en 1974, elle a d\u00e9croch\u00e9 son premier titre national senior \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de seulement 17 ans (elle l\u2019a d\u00e9fendu en 1975 et en 1980). Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 championne f\u00e9minine des Championnats du monde de tir en campagne en 1974, championne des Am\u00e9riques en 1975 et deux fois championne canadienne en salle, soit en 1975 et 1976. Elle a mis fin \u00e0 sa carri\u00e8re de comp\u00e9tition comme quintuple championne canadienne et m\u00e9daill\u00e9e d\u2019argent des Jeux panam\u00e9ricains en 1983.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1974, Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9e meilleure athl\u00e8te f\u00e9minine au Qu\u00e9bec et elle a remport\u00e9 le prix Elain Tanner comme Athl\u00e8te junior de l\u2019ann\u00e9e. En 1977, Lessard a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9e au Panth\u00e9on des sports canadiens et en 1982, elle a fait son entr\u00e9e au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terminant cinqui\u00e8me aux Championnats du monde de cible en 1975, Lucille Lessard repr\u00e9sentait un grand espoir pour Montr\u00e9al 1976 alors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":149352,"template":"","tags":[415985214,426523,415988106],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162658],"gender":[23319],"season":[415983968],"sport":[805571],"game":[181821878],"team":[415983235],"event":[],"province":[415983157],"class_list":["post-18890","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archery","tag-moscou","tag-moscow","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162658","gender-feminin","season-ete","sport-tir-a-larc","game-1980-moscow","team-moscou-1980-tir-a-larc","province-quebec"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/lucille-lessard-feature-e1547580086608.jpg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["archery","moscou","moscow"],"sport_names":[337],"game_names":["Moscou 1980"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Moscou 1980 - Tir \u00e0 l'arc"],"province_names":["Qu\u00e9bec"],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/lucille-lessard-e1547580066699.jpg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"May 26, 1957","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195614,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18890\/revisions\/195614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=18890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}