Hupin was born on March 30, 1984, in Bromont, Quebec.[1] She is the daughter of Paul Hupin, who is also a cyclist.[2] Hupin is a graduate of the Massey-Vanier High School in Cowansville,[3][4] earning the 2001 Governor's Medal for attaining the highest average grades of any graduate in its sports-study program.[5] 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.[3][5][6] Hupin enrolled on a medical studies course at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2004 to 2008;[7] she missed her graduation ceremony in September 2008 because she was in Beijing.[8] She thereafter did a four-year residency in orthopaedics at the Université de Montréal starting in July 2008.[7][9] Hupin is married to fellow professional track cyclist Martin Gilbert.[7]
She took up the sport of cycling at the age of 12, riding on the mountain trails of Bromont.[5] Hupin began doing it competitively from the age of 15,[5] competing in its mountain, road and track variants.[4] At age 16,[3] she won the girl's cycling race at the Quebec Cup in September 1998.[10] Hupin finished third in the cadet category of the cross-country race held as part of the third round of the Canada Cup mountain bike competition in Mont-Tremblant the following June.[11] At the 2000 Canadian National Track Championships in Bromont, she finished third in each of the junior women's 500-metre individual time trial and the match sprint.[12] Hupin finished second at that year's Canadian Championships and first at the Quebec Championships.[4]
At the 2001 Gary Fisher Provincial Cup held in Bromont in May that year, she placed fourth in the senior elite category by cyclist aged between 19 and 29.[2] Hupin qualified to compete at the 2001 Canada Summer GamesinLondon, Ontario, by accruing enough qualifying points at the selection session that took place in Quebec City.[13] Before that, she finished third in the junior category of the mountain biking race for cyclists aged between 17 and 18 held by the Bromont Mountain Bike Club in Hull.[14] In London, Ontario, Hupin was the Quebec cycling team's cadet,[15] and she partook in the cross-country, criterium, road race and time trial competitions.[3] During 2002, she took part in the junior women's category of the Gary Fisher Provincial Cup in Bromont,[16] the Bois de Belle-Rivière Cup in Mirabel, the Canadian Road Championships in London, Ontario and the 2002 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships in Austria;[1] she qualified for the Austrian competition by finishing third overall at the 2002 Canada Cup.[5]
In 2003, Hupin finished 14th at the Canada Cup Mountain Bike in Bromont, 74th at the Mountain Bike World Cup in Mont-Sainte-Anne and she partook in the Canadian International Women's Grand Prix in Saguenay, Quebec, during late September. The following year, she placed fourth at the Raphaël Levy Grand Prix in Saint-Jérôme and went on to come 40th at the Mont Saint-Anne World Cup.[1] Hupin qualified for the 2005 Canada Summer Games in Regina, Saskatchewan, by finishing third in the qualifying cross-country cycling event and she was one of 12 Quebecois cyclists at the competition that August.[1][17] She was sixth in the cross-country cycling race, eighth in the mountain bike competition,[15] tenth in the criterium and 21st in the time trial.[1] Hupin finished 31st out of 70 entrants in the women's race of the 2005 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup stage held in Mont Sainte-Anne.[15]
During 2006, she came third at the Grand Prix de Sainte-Martine, fourth at the Grand Prix Raphaël Lévy in Bellefeuille,[1] 31st in the road race at the National Championships Canada WE,[18] 29th at the Canadian Mountain Bike Championships in Kamloops and 18th at the 2006 Canada Cup in Whistler, British Columbia.[1] The following year, Hupin was 74th in the women's race held as part of the 2006 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup leg in Monte-Sainte-Anne and fourth in the Défi Sportif de Montréal road race. At the 2007 Pan American Games held that November in Cali, Colombia, she placed fifth in the road race, seventh in the kilometre, eighth in the track pursuit and ninth in the time trial.[1] Hupin also participated in the Pan American Para-cycling Championships in the same city with the visually impaired cyclist Genevieve Ouellet after the Fédération Québecoise des Sports Cyclistes informed her of the opportunity to enter the competition.[19]
In 2009, Hupin and Ouellet won each of the women's kilo and pursuit races for visually impaired cyclists of the Canadian National Track Championships for Riders with a Disability.[27] She also participated in the 2009 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Piacenza and Cortemaggiore, Italy that July with Ouellet,[28] placing fourth in the tandem road race.[1] The duo finished sixth in the road race at the World Para-cycling Road Championships held in Bogogno, Italy.[29] She has since been employed at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine as a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon specializing in the hand and upper limb,[30] and is a professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine from 2016 after doing fellowships at Harvard University and the University of British Columbia.[1][31] Hupin was part of the Dream project involving children from the ages of 7 to 17 playing a virtual reality game to reduce their anxiety and pain when medical procedures are being performed on them in hospital.[30] She has also took part in annual medical missions in Colombia for the humanitarian organization Healing the Children since 2014.[31]
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^ abcBélanger, Fernand (November 7, 2000). "Une athlète polyvalente" [A versatile athlete]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 42. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^ abcdeTremblay, André (April 25, 2003). "Mathilde Hupin Debeurme – Vers le sommet" [Mathilde Hupin Debeurme – To the top]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 8. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (July 19, 2002). "Mathilde Hupin s'attend à une forte opposition" [Mathilde Hupin expects strong opposition]. La voix de l'Est (in French). p. 21. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^ abRenaud, Robin (August 28, 2008). "À Pékin en tandem" [In Beijing in tandem]. Journal UdeS (in French) (2): 10. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
^ abBélanger, Fernand (June 19, 2008). ""Une belle expérience de vie"" [A beautiful life experience]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 34. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^"Vélo de montagne" [Mountain bike]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). June 17, 1999. p. 25. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (May 23, 2001). "Mathilde Hupin s'en va aux Jeux" [Mathilde Hupine is going to the Games]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 41. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Santerre, David (June 4, 2001). "Conditions difficiles pour les cyclistes à Hull" [Difficult conditions for cyclists in Hull]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 35. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^"Vélo de montagne" [Mountain biking]. La voix de l'Est (in French). May 15, 2002. p. 37. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
^Bélanger, Fernand (August 3, 2005). "Hupin-Debeurme remet ça!" [Hupin-Debeurme is doing it again!]. La voix de l'Est (in French). p. 30. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (November 24, 2007). "Une discipline de plus pour Mathilde Hupin" [One more discipline for Mathilde Hupine] (in French). p. 75. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (June 27, 2008). "Hupin-Debeurme et Ouellet s ' entraîneront en Australie" [Hupin-Debeurme and Ouellet will train in Australia]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 25. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
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^"Le bronze pour Ouellet et Hupin" [Bronze for Ouellet and Hupin]. La Presse (in French). September 15, 2008. p. 2. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^"Vélo de montagne: Surprenant et Morin honorés" [Mountain biking: Surprenant and Morin honoured]. La voix de l'Est (in French). November 18, 2008. p. 25. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (July 21, 2009). "Mathilde Hupin-Debeurme en action en Italie" [Mathilde Hupin-Debeurmeen in action in Italy]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 21. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^Bélanger, Fernand (September 18, 2009). "Mathilde Hupin a joué le tout pour le tout" [Mathilde Hupin played it all for all]. La Voix de l'Est (in French). p. 25. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021 – via BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque.
^ abHandfield, Catherine; Boily, David (January 9, 2018). "Antidouleur virtuel" [Virtual Painkiller]. La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.