Marie Patouillet

Marie Patouillet (born 7 August 1988) is a French cyclist who competes in C5 classification, physician, and LGBT+ activist.

Marie Patouillet

Personal information
Born	(1988-08-07) 7 August 1988 (age 37) Versailles, France
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Cycling
Disability class	C5
Medal record Paralympic Games 2024 Paris Ind. pursuit C5 2024 Paris Time trial C4–5 2020 Tokyo Pursuit C5 2020 Tokyo Road Race C4–5 Road World Championships 2022 Baie-Comeau Road race C5 Track World Championships 2024 Rio de Janeiro Scratch race C5 2024 Rio de Janeiro Omnium C5 2019 Apeldoorn Time trial C5 2020 Milton 500m time trial C5 2020 Milton Omnium C5 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Time trial C5 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Omnium C5 2023 Glasgow 500m time trial C5 2024 Rio de Janeiro 500m time trial C5 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Scratch race C5 2023 Glasgow Omnium C5

Life

Patouillet was born in 1988. She spent a decade in the French army before leaving to be a General Practitioner in Paris. Patouillet is openly lesbian.^[1] She is a proud LGBT+ activist in France using British Olympiand and other gay paralympians as role models.^[2]

Career

Patouillet competed at the women's individual pursuit C5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning bronze.^[3] She also won the silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships^[4]

She competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and she was the home favourite for the women’s C4-5 500m time trial final. In the end she took the silver medal to the Dutch cyclist Caroline Groot's gold. She beat the Tokyo silver medallist Kate O’Brien who came third.^[2]