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Born |
Tallinn, Estonia |
17 February 2002 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kelly Sildaru (born 17 February 2002) is an Estonian freestyle skier.
Sildaru won a gold medal in the slopestyle event in the 2016 Winter X Games beating Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen. With this win, at age 13, Sildaru became the youngest gold medalist to date at a Winter X Games event, and the first person to win a Winter X Games medal for Estonia.
Kelly Sildaru is the youngest to win 2 gold medals in X Games.
Sildaru has won the women's slopestyle on the 2015 and 2016 Dew tour.
During the Big Air competition of the 2017 Winter X Games Norway Sildaru became the first woman to ever land a Switch 1260° Mute and a 1440° during a competition.