Émilie Mondor

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Émilie Mondor (April 29, 1981 – September 9, 2006) was a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres.

She was born in Mascouche, Quebec in 1981. Mondor studied at McGill University, later moving to Simon Fraser University to study and train.

She finished twelfth in 5000 metres at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, eighth in the long race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and seventeenth overall in the 5000 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In late 2003 she became the first Canadian woman to dip under 15:00 in the 5000m before competing in the 2004 Olympic 5000m race and coming 17th .

Mondor was unable to compete for much of 2005 and 2006 due to a rare medical condition affecting the strength of her bones. After drug treatments for the condition, she placed second in a 10 kilometre road race held in Toronto on May 7, 2006.

She died in a car accident on Highway 417 near Hawkesbury, Ontario.

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