Maxime Montaggioni
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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 August 1989 Marseille, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maxime Montaggioni (born 22 August 1989) is a French para-snowboarder and parataekwondo practitioner. Born without a right hand, he competes in the SB-UL category. Montaggioni is six-time medallist at the World Para Snowboard Championships and a bronze medalist at the World Para Taekwondo Championships.
Career[edit]
Montaggioni competed at the 2013 World Para Taekwondo Championships in Lausanne, winning a bronze medal in the -68 kg category. He then began his para-snowboarding career in 2015 at the international level. He distinguished himself with his first podium in the World Cup with the French team in March 2016 at the French resort "Les Angles". At the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships held at the Big White Ski Resort, Montaggioni won his first medal, winning silver in snowboard cross event on 4 February. Three days later, he won the gold medal in the banked slalom event. He competed at the 2019 World Para Snowboard Championships, winning the gold medal in both the snowboard cross and banked slalom.
Montaggioni won the gold medal in the men's dual banked slalom at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships held in Lillehammer, Norway.[1][2] He also won the gold medal in the men's snowboard cross event.[3][4]
He competed in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Paralympics held in Beijing, China and won the gold medal in the banked slalom SB-UL event.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lisa Bunschoten trails, falls, recovers and wins third straight world title". Paralympic.org. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Houston, Michael (14 January 2022). "United States win three snowboard golds at World Para Snow Sports Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Canada's Tyler Turner beats 'best of the best' for first World Championships gold". 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Burke, Patrick (21 January 2022). "Pedersen clinches third gold of World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Snowboarding Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Winter Paralympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
External links[edit]
- Maxime Montaggioni at Paralympic.org
- Maxime Montaggioni at the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (in French)
- Maxime Montaggioni at Team France (in French)
- Maxime Montaggioni on Instagram
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Marseille
- French male snowboarders
- French male taekwondo practitioners
- Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in snowboarding
- Paralympic gold medalists for France
- Paralympic snowboarders for France
- 21st-century French people