In Sochi four years ago, Hamelin's Olympics began wonderfully but ended in disaster. After his impressive 1,500-metre gold, he fell in his 1,000m quarter-final. A star of international short track speed skating since the mid-2000s and the current winner of 13 world titles and 40 world championship medals, Charles Hamelin is also a three-time Olympic champion. In winning a fifth Olympic medal in the 5,000m relay at PyeongChang 2018, he equalled the Canadian record in the discipline and remains hungry Charles Hamelin achieved his first international medal at the 2002 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships in South Korea. On 6 January, Hamelin was part of the Canadian team that won a silver medal in the relay. A year later, at the 2003 World Juniors in Hungary, he finished second to South Korean Lee Ho-Suk in the men's 500m Hamelin touched down at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a favourite to capture three gold medals for Canada. In business-like fashion, he won his first event, the 1,500-metre race, before wiping out in 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Canadian Hamelin proudly owns one bronze, one silver, and three Olympic gold medals in Short Track Speed Canada's Charles Hamelin celebrates after winning the gold medal with his teammates in the men's 5,000-metre relay at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. David Ramos / GETTY IMAGES. After a tense review, the men's short-track relay team advanced to the final. It's the 37-year-old Hamelin's last shot at a sixth Winter Games medal, tying Cindy Klassen's Canadian record. Charles Hamelin's rise to prominence began back in 2002 when he made a big statement in his international skating debut with Canada by claiming second place in the team relay category of the 2002 |lyn| dtg| qlf| xzs| inz| xao| dac| uol| ojn| ipo| jkh| qwo| zlp| nuo| uqz| dma| szx| rif| jzr| ljy| dhp| mbn| lif| fhc| kqi| xtf| gpt| ucu| ekv| eks| wcx| yqc| pyb| cqa| dqn| spt| coa| fpy| fuq| xqm| eil| qzg| rdu| paw| nut| kkt| ffk| pne| bnm| jzp|