Marie-Pierre Gagné
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Marie-Pierre Gagné was a Canadian
Canada
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 synchronized swimmer
Synchronized swimming
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. She began synchronized swimming at age six. She finished in fourth place at the 2003 world championships at Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Spain
Spain
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 in the free routine combination event. She is also currently studying medicine at Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

, in Montreal.

She was captain of the Canadian national team and compete at Beijing in 2008 for her second olympics.
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