Valérie Maltais

Athlete

Valérie Maltais is a Canadian short-track speed skater and speed skater. She has won six world championship medals including finishing second overall in 2012.

In January 2022, Maltais was named to her first Olympic team in long-track speed skating. Maltais would go on to win the gold medal as part of the team pursuit event. In doing so, she became only the fourth athlete to win Olympic medals in both short- and long-track speed skating, following Eric Flaim, Jorien ter Mors and Ruslan Zakharov