Maëlle Ricker

Maëlle Danica Ricker is a Canadian retired snowboarder, who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, to become the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics. She is also the 2013 World Champion and two-time Winter X Games Champion.

2 December 1978

Born on the same birth date (2 December 1978): Andrew Ryan (rugby league) • Chris Wolstenholme • David Rivas • Jarron Collins • Jason Collins • Luigi Malafronte • Nelly Furtado • Peter Moylan

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Danijel Pranjić • Dorell Wright • Indra Lal Roy • Luigi Malafronte • Mine Yoshizaki • Taisto Mäki • Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin

Born in the same month (December 1978): Adriana Moisés Pinto • Estella Warren • Jaclyn Victor • John Morris (curler) • Josh Dallas • Karel Rüütli • Neil Druckmann • Rob Scuderi • Rutina Wesley • Summer Phoenix • Warren Tredrea