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Birth name | Myriam Jerusalmi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Marseille, France | 24 October 1961||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Richard Fox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | Jessica Fox Noemie Fox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi (born 24 October 1961) [1] is a former French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1979 to 1996.
Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K1 event in Atlanta in 1996.
Fox-Jerusalmi also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with eight golds (K1: 1989, 1993; K1 team: 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995) and two silvers (K1: 1987; K1 team: 1987). [2]
She won the overall World Cup title three consecutive times between 1989 and 1991.
In 2018, she won the Coach of the Year at the AIS Sport Performance Awards.
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K1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event |
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1989 | 15 August 1989 | Augsburg | 2nd | K1 |
20 August 1989 | Tacen | 3rd | K1 | |
1990 | 1 July 1990 | Wausau | 1st | K1 |
1990 | Savage River | 1st | K1 | |
18 August 1990 | Bourg St.-Maurice | 2nd | K1 | |
1991 | 30 June 1991 | Mezzana | 1st | K1 |
7 July 1991 | Augsburg | 2nd | K1 | |
10 July 1991 | Reals | 1st | K1 | |
1 September 1991 | Wausau | 1st | K1 | |
1992 | 16 February 1992 | Murupara | 1st | K1 |
23 February 1992 | Launceston | 3rd | K1 | |
1993 | 25 July 1993 | Lofer | 2nd | K1 |
1 August 1993 | Augsburg | 1st | K1 | |
31 August 1993 | Ocoee | 2nd | K1 | |
1995 | 1 October 1995 | Ocoee | 3rd | K1 |
Her husband, Richard, competed for Great Britain in slalom canoeing, and later coached Australia in the same event. Fox-Jerusalmi's husband is also an executive officer in the International Canoe Federation. Their daughter, Jessica Fox won gold in the girls' K1 slalom event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, four Olympic medals, and sixteen World Championship medals as of 2022. Competing for Australia in the 2012 Olympics, Jessica won the K1 slalom silver medal. [3] Her younger daughter Noemie Fox is also a slalom canoeist. Myriam's sister-in-law Rachel Crosbee also competed in canoe slalom.
Richard Munro Fox is a British slalom canoeist who competed for Great Britain from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with ten golds and a bronze. Fox also won the overall World Cup title three times and the Euro Cup four times.
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