Mathilde Hupin-Debeurme (born March 30, 1984) is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon and former cyclist who competed in cross-country, mountain, road, and track events. She had competed in national and international cycling such as the Canada Summer Games, the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, the La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal, the Tour du Grand Montréal and the Summer Paralympic Games. Hupin won a bronze medal in the Women's Road Individual Road Race in the B VI 1–3 as part of the Canadian delegation at the 2008 Beijing Summer Paralympics, acting as the visual guide for the blind cyclist Genevieve Ouellet. She works as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine and is a professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine.
Personal background Hupin was born on March 30, 1984, in Bromont, Quebec. She is the daughter of Paul Hupin, who is also a cyclist. Hupin is a graduate of the Massey-Vanier High School in Cowansville, earning the 2001 Governor's Medal for attaining the highest average grades of any graduate in its sports-study program. She did a health sciences course at Cégep de Granby for two years to better her opportunity to matriculate to university and was part of various committees at the college. Hupin enrolled on a medical studies course at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2004 to 2008; she missed her graduation ceremony in September 2008 because she was in Beijing. She thereafter did a four-year residency in orthopaedics at the Université de Montréal starting in July 2008. Hupin is married to fellow professional track cyclist Martin Gilbert.
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