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): Dorell Wright • George Emmett • Harriet Cohen • Ivan Bagramyan • Jake Doran • John Banks (New Zealand politician) • Kelefa Diallo • Lee Steele • Maria Callas • Péter Máté (footballer, born 1984) • Raimundo Orsi • Robert Turbin • Stephen McGinn • Yusuf Akçura

Born in the same month (December 1978): Aleš Kotalík • Chris Wolstenholme • Daniel Alexandersson • Darrell Jackson • Deuce McAllister • Estella Warren • Frédéric Piquionne • Jeremy Strong • John Legend • Kaoru Sugayama • Patrick Casey (writer) • Phillips Idowu • Ramiro Pez • Shiri Appleby • Suzannah Lipscomb