Mel Pemble

Melissa Pemble (born April 22, 2000) is a Canadian para alpine skier and para cyclist. She won back-to-back gold medals in omnium C3 at the 2022 and 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. She won two medals in para-cycling at the 2023 Parapan American Games.

Early life and education Pemble was born in Lancashire, England with cerebral palsy affecting her right side. Her parents thought it would be good for her to take up a sport to help with her balance and coordination. She moved to Victoria, British Columbia at age 9 with her parents. She twisted her knee after an early skiing lesson in France, but took up para-skiing again after moving to Canada.

Career

Para-skiing At the 2015 Canada Winter Games, Pemble won the women’s Giant Slalom Para female race. She also won a silver medal in slalom para alpine skiing at the Games.

Pemble competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics as the youngest Canadian skier at the games. She finished eleventh in women's giant slalom, and women's super-G, and ninth in women's downhill and women's super combined. She did not finish in women's slalom.

She competed at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships. Pemble made the decision to end her para-skiing career in 2020. and scratch race. She set a para-cycling world record in the non-medaled 200-metre sprint in 2022. She also placed third in the 500m time trial and fourth in the four-kilometre individual pursuit.

Pemble competed at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. She won the gold medal in the women's 3,000-metre C1-3 individual pursuit. She finished fourth in the women's individual road race C1–3 and seventh in the women's individual road time trial C1–5.

She won a silver medal in the women’s C3 500m time trial and a bronze medal in the women's C3 omnium at the 2024 UCI Para Cycling Track World Championships. Also at the 2024 UCI Para Cycling Championships, Pemble placed 5th in the Individual Pursuit and 6th in the Scratch Race.

Pemble competed in para-cycling at the 2024 Summer Paralympics where she set the world record for the 500m time trial in the C3 category. At the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, she won a gold medal in the women’s C3 sprint, silver in the kilo and in the elimination race, and a bronze in the scratch race.