| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 24, 1997 Mammoth Lakes, California, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) |
| Weight | 115 lb (52 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  United States |
| Sport | Freestyle skiing |
| Event(s) | Halfpipe |
| Club | Mammoth Mountain Freeski Team |
Carly Margulies (born December 24, 1997) is an American freestyle skier who competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe.
Margulies has been skiing since the age of eleven. Between 2015 and 2018, she has had seven knee surgeries. [1] She currently resides in Park City, Utah. [2]
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
Grete Eliassen is an American-Norwegian freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Kaya Turski and Keri Herman. She has won 6 medals at the Winter X Games in slopestyle and halfpipe events including back to back gold medals in 2005 and 2006. Eliassen serves as the 16th president of the Women's Sports Foundation, effective January 2017.
Rosalind Groenewoud is a Canadian freeskier. She is the 2011 FIS World Champion in halfpipe, Groenewoud is also a 2012 Winter X Games champion x 2 and has 3 silver and two bronze medals from X Games competitions in halfpipe. She won the AFP Overall Championship in 2009 & 2010 and AFP Halfpipe Overall Ranking in 2012. She is the first woman to design her own pro-model freestyle ski with the female owned ski company Coalition Snow.
Devin Marie Logan is an American freeskier from West Dover, Vermont. She won silver in women's slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi.
Marielle Thompson is a Canadian freestyle skier specializing in ski cross. She is the 2014 Winter Olympic and 2019 World champion in women's ski cross, as well as a three-time FIS World Cup Crystal Globe winner as the top-ranked athlete in that discipline and the 2013 Junior World champion.
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Megan Gunning is a Canadian freestyle skier. She won the silver medal in the halfpipe at the 2009 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships as well as two medals in Winter X Games competition. Gunning was named to the 2014 Winter Olympics team in ski halfpipe but she injured her knee on while preparing for the X-games and was unable to compete at the Olympics.
Rowan Cheshire is a British freestyle skier, specialising in the halfpipe. Cheshire competed in the 2013 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Voss, Norway, where she finished 17th. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Valmalenco. In January 2014 she became the first British female skier to win a halfpipe competition on the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup when she took the halfpipe event at a meeting in Calgary. This was the first Freestyle World Cup win for a British female skier since Jilly Curry won an aerials competition in 1992.
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Cassie Sharpe is a Canadian freestyle skier. Sharpe became the Olympic champion in women's halfpipe after winning gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in halfpipe in Kreischberg and won gold and bronze in superpipe at the Winter X Games in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
Kelly Sildaru is an Estonian Olympic freestyle skier.
Elizabeth Marian Swaney OLY is an American born-and-raised freestyle skier who competed for Hungary in the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe based on her Hungarian ancestry. She was unable to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics for Venezuela in both skeleton and freestyle skiing, and qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe, in which she placed last.
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Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing, is an American and Chinese freestyle skier. She has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since 2019.
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New Zealand competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. The New Zealand team consisted of 15 athletes—nine men and six women—who competed in five sports. Selection of the New Zealand team was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).
Jamie Crane-Mauzy(Jamie MoCrazy) is an American freestyle skier and motivational speaker.
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