Cécile Hernandez-Cervellon

Cécile Hernandez is a French para-snowboarder and four-time Paralympic medallist, with gold medals from Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026, a silver medal from Sochi 2014, and both a silver and a bronze from PyeongChang 2018. She competes for the teams and , as well as the French national Paralympic team; outside sport, she is a customs officer journalist and writer. before discovering snowboarding. On 21 October 2002 she experienced an attack of multiple sclerosis that paralysed her legs for two months. As a result, she stopped sport and took refuge in writing, publishing two books for and working for Europe 1 (from 2011) and from 2012, covering the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

In May 2012, Hernandez arranged an endurance race for both disabled and able-bodied athletes, travelling from Lyon to Bordeaux by bicycle and kayak. In 2015–16, still competing for the team, she won 10 races in the European and World Cups and 2 further Crystal Globes — a for leading the World Para Snowboard rankings and a for first place in the banked slalom — as well as the silver medal for snowboard cross.

On 4 February 2017 at Big White, she won another silver medal in snowboard cross, winning the banked slalom silver 3 days later. At the end of the 2016–17 season the following month, with 7 spots on the podium, including 5 victories, she won a third and both for snowboard cross and banked slalom.

She joined the team on 20 January 2017 with the aim of travelling to PyeongChang as a part of the French Paralympic team for the 2018 Winter games, and silver in the banked slalom.

She won the silver medal in the women's dual banked slalom SB-LL1 event at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships held in Lillehammer, Norway. She also won the gold medal in the women's snowboard cross SB-LL1 event.

Hernandez is classified as a SB-LL1 snowboarder. Hernandez learned days before her competition at the 2022 Winter Paralympics that she was allowed to compete. This was previously not permitted as there are no SB-LL1 events for female snowboarders in the snowboarding programme. She won the gold medal in the women's snowboard cross SB-LL2 event. She also competed in the women's banked slalom SB-LL2 event.

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