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Born | Mansfield, Victoria, Australia | 27 December 1990|||||||
Height | 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) (2014) | |||||||
Weight | 105 kg (231 lb) (2014) | |||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||
Sport | Freestyle Skiing | |||||||
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Anton Grimus (born 27 December 1990) is an Australian freestyle skier. He was born in Mansfield. He competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross. [1]
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