Anna Willcox-Silfverberg (born 9 April 1992) is a New Zealand and Swedish freestyle skier and reporter for TV Show The Crowd Goes Wild.
Born in Takapuna, North Shore City, New Zealand, she competed for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [1] [2] She finished 15th in qualification of the women's slopestyle event, missing the final by only two places. [3]
Her father, Hamish Willcox, was a professional sailor who competed in the America's Cup and her brother, Daniel Willcox, represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics in sailing. [4]
Rangitoto College is a state coeducational secondary school, located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Serving years 9 to 13, Rangitoto has a school roll of 3813 as of August 2024, making it the largest "brick-and-mortar" school in New Zealand. Patrick Gale is the current principal.
The Crowd Goes Wild is a sports entertainment show broadcast on New Zealand nationwide television channel Sky Open. The show premiered on Monday 26 June 2006.
Jennifer Margaret Armstrong is an Olympic sailor from New Zealand. After competing for her native country at the 1992 Olympics, she moved to Australia in 1996 and won a historic sailing gold for her adopted country at the 2000 Olympics.
Hamish Bryon Bond is a retired New Zealand rower and former road cyclist. He is a three-time Olympic gold medallist at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. He won six consecutive World Rowing Championships gold medals in the coxless pair and set the current world best times in both the coxless and coxed pair. He made a successful transition from rowing to road cycling after the 2016 Summer Olympics, focussing on the road time trial and winning a medal at the Commonwealth Games. He returned to rowing for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, winning a gold medal in the men's eight. In 2024 he was a cyclor in the Team New Zealand team which successfully defended the America's cup.
Anna Segal is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.
Hannah Louise Mills, is a British competitive sailor and two-time world champion in the Women's 470 class, having won in 2012 and 2019. Mills won a silver medal for Team GB with her crew Saskia Clark in the 2012 Olympics, she followed this up with a gold in the same event at both the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and, partnered by Eilidh McIntyre, the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Paul Snow-Hansen is a New Zealand sailor. In 2016, he sailed in the 470 World Championships in San Isidro, Buenos Aires where he won a silver medal with Daniel Willcox.
Hamish Pepper is a New Zealand sailor. He competed at the 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Zoe Stevenson is a New Zealand rower. She won gold in the women's double sculls with Fiona Bourke at the 2014 World Rowing Championships.
New Zealand competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twenty-third appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. The New Zealand team consisted of 199 athletes, 100 women and 99 men, across twenty sports, the first time New Zealand was represented by more women than men at the Summer Olympics.
Genevieve "Gen" Behrent is a New Zealand rower.
Daniel Willcox is a New Zealand sailor.
Sarah Anne Macky is a New Zealand former sailor, who specialized in the Europe class. She scored top ten finishes on her signature boat in two editions of the Olympic Games, and also trained throughout most of her sailing career for Kohimarama Yacht Club, under the tutelage of her coach and former Olympian Leslie Egnot.
Carl (Tiny) Whiting, born 1981 in Auckland, is a New Zealand sailor who has competed at the Summer Olympics and in multiple America's Cups.
Zoi Katherine Sadowski-Synnott is a New Zealand snowboarder, specialising in slopestyle and big air competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's slopestyle and silver in the big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming New Zealand's first gold medallist and first to win multiple medals at the Winter Olympics. She also won the bronze medal in the women's big air at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and won the women's slopestyle title at the 2019 World Championships.
Alice Robinson is a New Zealand World Cup alpine ski racer. At age sixteen, she competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in giant slalom and slalom. She represented New Zealand in the giant slalom event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Silfverberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Victoria Peeters, known as Tori Peeters, is a New Zealand athlete who is national record holder and a multiple time national champion in the javelin throw.
Margaux Hackett is a New Zealand freestyle skier who competes internationally. She represented New Zealand in the slopestyle and big air events at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.