Mathilde Hupin

Mathilde Hupin-Debeurme (born March 30, 1984) is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon and former cyclist who competed in cross-country, mountain, road, and track events. She had competed in national and international cycling such as the Canada Summer Games, the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, the La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal, the Tour du Grand Montréal and the Summer Paralympic Games. Hupin won a bronze medal in the Women's Road Individual Road Race in the B VI 1–3 as part of the Canadian delegation at the 2008 Beijing Summer Paralympics, acting as the visual guide for the blind cyclist Genevieve Ouellet. She works as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine and is a professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine.

Personal background Hupin was born on March 30, 1984, in Bromont, Quebec. She is the daughter of Paul Hupin, who is also a cyclist. earning the 2001 Governor's Medal for attaining the highest average grades of any graduate in its sports-study program. Hupin enrolled on a medical studies course at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2004 to 2008; She thereafter did a four-year residency in orthopaedics at the Université de Montréal starting in July 2008.

Career She took up the sport of cycling at the age of 12, riding on the mountain trails of Bromont. competing in its mountain, road and track variants. Hupin finished third in the cadet category of the cross-country race held as part of the third round of the Canada Cup mountain bike competition in Mont-Tremblant the following June. At the 2000 Canadian National Track Championships in Bromont, she finished third in each of the junior women's 500-metre individual time trial and the match sprint. Hupin finished second at that year's Canadian Championships and first at the Quebec Championships. Hupin qualified to compete at the 2001 Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario, by accruing enough qualifying points at the selection session that took place in Quebec City. Before that, she finished third in the junior category of the mountain biking race for cyclists aged between 17 and 18 held by the Bromont Mountain Bike Club in Hull. In London, Ontario, Hupin was the Quebec cycling team's cadet, the Bois de Belle-Rivière Cup in Mirabel, the Canadian Road Championships in London, Ontario and the 2002 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships in Austria; She was sixth in the cross-country cycling race, eighth in the mountain bike competition,

During 2006, she came third at the Grand Prix de Sainte-Martine, fourth at the Grand Prix Raphaël Lévy in Bellefeuille, 29th at the Canadian Mountain Bike Championships in Kamloops and 18th at the 2006 Canada Cup in Whistler, British Columbia.

She continued to partake in national cycling events such as the La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal, the Tour of Prince Edward Island and the Tour du Grand Montréal. The duo trained at a training camp inside a velodrome in Australia, Their first event was the women's 3,000 individual pursuit (B&VI 1–3) on 10 September, where they placed seventh in the preliminary stage and failed to qualify for the final. Hupin and Ouellet then finished tenth in the Women's Road Individual Time Trial in the B VI 1–3 category two days later, before finishing third in the Women's Road Individual Road Race in the B VI 1–3 class to claim the bronze medal two days later. She was honored for her participants at the Paralympics by the in November 2008.

In 2009, Hupin and Ouellet won each of the women's kilo and pursuit races for visually impaired cyclists of the Canadian National Track Championships for Riders with a Disability. She also participated in the 2009 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Piacenza and Cortemaggiore, Italy that July with Ouellet, placing fourth in the tandem road race. She has since been employed at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine as a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon specializing in the hand and upper limb, Hupin was part of the Dream project involving children from the ages of 7 to 17 playing a virtual reality game to reduce their anxiety and pain when medical procedures are being performed on them in hospital. She has also took part in annual medical missions in Colombia for the humanitarian organization Healing the Children since 2014.