Cécile Hernandez
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20 June 1974 Perpignan, France |
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Cécile Hernandez-Cervellon (born 20 June 1974), who also competes as Cécile Hernandez, is a French para-snowboarder and three-time Paralympic medallist, with a silver medal from Sochi 2014 and both a silver and a bronze from PyeongChang 2018. She competes for the teams Les Angles and France Douanes, as well as the French national Paralympic team; outside sport, she is a customs officer journalist and writer.
Hernandez-Cervellon began her sporting career as a BMX racer in international competition 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 Éditions du Rocher and working for Europe 1 (from 2011) and Le Figaro from 2012, covering the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
In May 2012, Hernandez-Cervellon arranged an endurance race for both disabled and able-bodied athletes, travelling from Lyon to Bordeaux by bicycle and kayak. Then, in 2013, when she happened to try snowboarding again in the French Alps, she was spotted by a member of the French para-snowboarding team. She was selected for the Paralympic snowboarding team for the Sochi Games in February 2014, with just over a month to prepare, but was encouraged by her performance at the World Para Snowboard World Cup the previous month. She won a silver Paralympic medal at Sochi, with a snowboard cross time of 2:07.31, and was named a knight of the National Order of Merit by then-president François Hollande in June 2014.
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