Anna Segal

Anna Segal (born 15 August 1986) is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.

Anna Segal
Personal information
Born (1986-08-15) 15 August 1986
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height164 cm (5 ft 5 in) (2014)[1]
Weight59 kg (130 lb) (2014)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportFreestyle Skiing
Event(s)Ski Slopestyle Women
Medal record
Women's Freestyle skiing
Representing  Australia
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
2013 SilvaplanaSlopestyle
2012 Copper Mt.Slopestyle
2011 Deer ValleySlopestyle
US Freeski Open
2007 Copper Mt. Slopestyle
Winter Dew Tour
2013 Breckenridge Slopestyle
2012 Snowbasin Slopestyle
2011 Snowbasin Halfpipe
2010 Snowbasin Halfpipe
2009 Mt. SnowSlopestyle
2008 BreckenridgeSlopestyle
Winter X Games
2012 Aspen Slopestyle
2012 Tignes Slopestyle
2009 Aspen Slopestyle
Updated on 6 February 2014.

Segal won the gold medal for the inaugural Women's Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk Mountain on 24 January 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. She also won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. She won the gold medal as well in the Slopestyle at the 2012 AFP World Championships in Whistler, Canada.

Early life

Segal was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is Jewish.[2][3][4] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak, matriculating in 2004.[5] She has a degree in Arts & Commerce from Monash University (2015).[6] Her sister Nat Segal is a professional skier.[7]

Skiing career

Segal's home mountain is Whistler Blackcomb in Canada.

Segal initially began competitive skiing as a mogul skier, and subsequently moved into freeskiing events. She was a member of the NSWIS/SSA National Development mogul team 2003–05 and competed in several Europa Cup Mogul events during that time. She suffered a serious knee injury in 2006.[8]

Her first major win in slopestyle was the Women's US Freeskiing Open at Copper Mountain, USA, in 2007.

She won the gold medal for the inaugural Women's Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk Mountain on 24 January 2009 in Aspen, Colorado.[9] She also won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.[10] Segal was named the 2011 Australian Snowsports Person of the Year by Skiing and Snowboarding Australia.[11]

Segal broke her thumb and damaged her knee in January 2012.[11] She won the gold medal in the Slopestyle at the 2012 AFP World Championships in Whistler, Canada.[11]

In early 2013, Segal damaged her left knee at a World Cup event in Switzerland.[7] She took 3rd in Slopestyle at the FIS USA World Cup in 2013.[12]

Segal competed for Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, four weeks after learning she had torn the ACL in her knee.[13][14] She came in fourth place, eight points behind bronze medalist Canadian Kim Lamarre in the women's ski slopestyle.[13][15] It was Australia's first fourth-place finish ever in Winter Olympics history.[16]

Segal retired from competitive skiing after the Olympics.[14] During her career she sustained three ACL reconstructions, two meniscal tears, cartilage damage in her knee, a broken ankle, a broken thumb, and a few concussions.[17]

See also

References
  1. "Anna Segal". sochi2014.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  2. Levisohn, Lisi (4 February 2014). "The Jewish Ponytail Seen Around The World | Jewish Week". Jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. Berkowitz, Benny (4 June 2018). "Adrenaline rush – The Australian Jewish News". Ajn.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. Written by ausjewsinsport (5 September 2012). "Anna Segal | Australian Jews in Sport". Ausjewsinsport.wordpress.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. "Anna Segal - St Catherines School". St Catherines School. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. ""Anna Segal – Professional Skier"". Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  7. "Sochi Winter Olympics: Anna Segal finishes fourth in women's ski slopestyle," The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. "Segal crowned world champion," The Australian Jewish News.
  9. "Anna Segal in Winter X Games Day 3" - Zimbio
  10. "FIS-Ski - resultats". Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  11. "Anna Segal," Australian Jews in Sport.
  12. ""About Me – Anna Segal – Professional Skier"". Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  13. "Heartbreak as Segal denied bronze," The Australian Jewish News.
  14. Sixty seconds with Anna Segal - SnowsBest
  15. "Sizing up some of the non-Israeli Jews in Sochi," The Jerusalem Post.
  16. "Australian Olympic Committee: Anna Segal"
  17. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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