Cassie Sharpe

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Cassie Sharpe
Cassie Sharpe Copper Lifestyle.jpg
Cassie Sharpe at Copper Mountain in December 2015.
Personal information
Nickname(s)Cass
NationalityCanadian
Born (1992-09-14) September 14, 1992 (age 30)
Calgary, Alberta
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
CountryCanada
Sport Freestyle skiing
Event(s)Halfpipe
Medal record
Women's freestyle skiing
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Winter Olympics
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Pyeongchang Halfpipe
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Beijing Halfpipe
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Kreischberg Halfpipe
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Utah Halfpipe
Winter X Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Oslo Superpipe
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Aspen Superpipe
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Aspen Superpipe
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Aspen Superpipe
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Aspen Superpipe

Cassie Sharpe (born September 14, 1992) 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.

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Career

She grew up in Comox, British Columbia on Vancouver Island and learned how to ski with her family, skiing for the first time with her brothers at age 11. Her parents enrolled her in Bumps and Jumps at Mount Washington in 2004. Sharpe competed in moguls, aerials, and slopestyle in her early years. Later she would win her first halfpipe event in 2012, which would get her into the discipline. [1]

Sharpe announced her arrival on the international scene in halfpipe when she won silver at the 2015 World Championships. [2] She would say of her last run and coaching later that "I went big for the last run and brought all the pieces together that I've worked so hard for. We had a crazy training camp in Calgary before coming here, and my coaches were amazing. They made me a better skier in a week, and I owe my consistency to them". [2] Some discounted her win as most of the competitive skiers were at Winter X Games XIX that year, which was scheduled at the same time as the World Championships. [1] Sharpe would back up her podium pedigree with a gold medal win on the 2014–15 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup to end the season. [1] She also placed second in the Breckenridge Dew Tour in 2015.

She would make her X Games debut in January 2016, where she placed fourth. Unknowingly she was competing with a stress fracture in her back that occurred in December 2015 but was only diagnosed by an MRI scan after the X Games. [1] Wearing a back brace, Sharpe would win gold at Winter X Games Oslo in 2016. [1] She would follow up her X Games Gold with a World Cup gold at the event in Tignes, France. While qualifying in Tignes, she broke her thumb after a fall. Sharpe would tape up her thumb and, later in the event, became the first woman ever to land a switch cork 720 in competition. [1] She would later have surgery to reconnect the ligament and remove a bone fragment in her thumb. [1]

To start the 2017–18 World Cup season, Sharpe won the halfpipe event at Cardrona, New Zealand. [1] She would also win gold Snowmass, Colorado and gold on the Dew Tour. Sharpe would build on this success into the 2018 Winter Olympics, her first Olympic competition. Sharpe qualified first overall for the halfpipe final. There her first two runs both would have had her in first atop the podium; her third run was a victory lap. She credited her Olympic training to practicing every day, saying of her frequent practices that it was "so much to the point that I'm like 'I don't want to anymore, I want to have fun.' But it is fun for me. My job is my favourite thing to do." [3] Sharpe concluded the World Cup season with a gold medal win in Tignes, which made her the Crystal Globe winner for the women's halfpipe season. She commented: "I'm really excited at how the year went. Every contest was a new challenge unto itself, but I'm so stoked to finish the year as the overall winner." [4]

On January 24, 2022, Sharpe was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. [5] [6] Sharpe would win the silver medal in the women's halfpipe event. [7]

Personal life

She is sister to snowboarders Douglas Sharpe and Darcy Sharpe. [8] Sharpe now currently lives in Vancouver.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cassie Sharpe profile". Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Cassie Sharpe wins silver in ski halfpipe at worlds". CBC Sports . January 22, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Canada's Cassie Sharpe wins gold in women's ski halfpipe". CBC Sports . February 20, 2018. Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Canada's Cassie Sharpe's halfpipe gold gives her overall World Cup championship". CBC Sports . March 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Nichols, Paula (24 January 2022). "Team Canada adds 24 freestyle skiers to the roster for Beijing 2022". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Ewing, Lori (24 January 2022). "Moguls star Kingsbury leads Canada's Beijing Olympic freestyle team". Canadian Press . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Boynton, Sean (17 February 2022). "Canada wins silver, bronze in women's halfpipe skiing at Beijing Olympics". Global News . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "Cassie Sharpe Wins Halfpipe Silver at World Championships". Freestyle Skiing Canada. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
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