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Place of Birth: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Michelle Russell
- Michelle Russell (born June 27, 1992) is a Canadian sprint kayaker. Her home club is the Cheema Aquatic Club in Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- As a 17-year-old at the 2009 Canada Games Russell represented Nova Scotia where she won two gold medals in K-4 and K-2, as well as two Silver medals in K-1 1000 and K-1 2000 m.
- That very same year, Russell was picked as the female K-1, to represent Canada at the 2009 Junior Worlds in Moscow Russia, where she finished 8th and 10th in the K-1 500 and K-1 1000.
- 2012 was her first World Cup tour where she took home a bronze in K1 200 relay.
- In 2013, she made four World Cup finals in K1 events and placed fourteenth in K1 200 at Senior Worlds.
- At the 2013 Under-23 World Championships in Welland she paddled to victory for Canada and claimed the gold medal in the K-1 200m, as well as receiving a bronze medal in the K-1 500.
- She has also won numerous medals at the national level.
- In 2014, she once again made the Canadian Senior Worlds team that competed in two World Cup events, as well as the senior World Championships in Moscow, Russia.
- At World Cup event in Racice, she placed 8th in K-1 5000 and 12th in K-1 200.
- At the World Cup in Szeged, she placed 15th in the K-1 5000, 15th in the K-1 200.
- At the World Championship, she raced the K-1 200 relay event where she and her team placed 7th, as well as racing the K-1 200 event where she placed 13th and the K-2 500 event where she also placed 13th.
- She is currently on the World Top Athlete list for Canoe Kayak as of 2013, which meant she has one of the best times ever recorded by a female kayaker at a world level (Wellen, 2013).
- Her time 39,980 seconds, is the 8th fastest at the 200m distance ever recorded by a female kayaker.
- As of 2014, she is still on the list but is ranked at 9th.
- She is currently a member of the Canoe Kayak Canada Senior National team.
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