Anna Segal
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15 August 1986 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle Skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Ski Slopestyle Women | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Anna Segal (born 15 August 1986) is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.
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. 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.
Segal was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is Jewish. She has a degree in Arts & Commerce from Monash University (2015). Her sister Nat Segal is a professional skier.
Segal's home mountain is Thredbo in New South Wales, Australia and Breckenridge, Colorado when she is based in the USA.
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.
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. She also won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. She was named the 2011 Australian Snowsports Person of the Year by Skiing and Snowboarding Australia.
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