Laura Peel

Laura Peel

Personal information
Born	(1989-09-29) September 29, 1989 (age 36) Canberra, Australia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Skiing
World Cup career
Seasons	13 (2011-2023)
Indiv. starts	70
Indiv. podiums	22
Indiv. wins	9
Team starts	3
Discipline titles	2 – AE (2020, 2021)
Medal record Women's freestyle skiing Representing   Australia World Championships 2015 Kreischberg Aerials 2021 Almaty Aerials
Updated on 24 May 2023

Laura Peel (born 29 September 1989) is an Australian freestyle skier. She was two time world champion (2015, 2021) and two time World Cup winner, at the women's aerials discipline. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in women's aerials, ^[1] at the 2018 Winter Olympics, in women's aerials, where she placed fifth, ^[2] and at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's aerials, where she placed fifth. ^{[3] [4]}

She competed at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011 in Utah, and at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013 in Voss. At the 2015 World Championships she won her first world title.

World Cup results

Race podiums

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2012	15 January 2012	Mont Gabriel, Canada	Aerials	3rd
	17 February 2012	Kreischberg, Austria	Aerials	1st
2013	1 February 2013	Deer Valley, United States	Aerials	2nd
	17 February 2013	Sochi, Russia	Aerials	2nd
2017	4 March 2017	Moscow, Russia	Aerials	3rd
2018	19 January 2018	Lake Placid, United States	Aerials	3rd
	20 January 2018			3rd
2019	16 February 2019	Moscow, Russia	Aerials	2nd
	2 March 2019	Shimao Lotus Mountain, China	Aerials	1st
2020	21 December 2019	Shimao Lotus Mountain, China	Aerials	3rd
	15 February 2020	Moscow, Russia	Aerials	2nd
	22 February 2020	Minsk, Belarus	Aerials	1st
	8 March 2020	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	Aerials	1st
2021	4 December 2020	Ruka, Finland	Aerials	1st
	16 January 2021	Yaroslavl, Russia	Aerials	1st
	23 January 2021	Moscow, Russia	Aerials	2nd
	30 January 2021	Minsk, Belarus	Aerials	2nd
2022	11 December 2021	Ruka, Finland	Aerials	2nd
	12 January 2022	Deer Valley, United States	Aerials	2nd
2023	22 January 2023	Le Relais, Canada	Aerials	1st
	5 March 2023	Engadin, Switzerland	Aerials	2nd
	19 March 2023	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Aerials	1st

World Championships results

Year	Age	Aerials	Aerials team
2011 Deer Valley	21	11	—N/a
2013 Voss	23	8
2015 Kreischberg	25	1
2017 Sierra Nevada	27	8
2019 Deer Valley	29	4	7
2021 Almaty	31	1	—
2023 Georgia	33	7	—

• The Aerials team was added as an event in 2019.

Olympic results

Year	Age	Aerials	Aerials team
2014 Sochi	24	7	—N/a
2018 Pyeongchang	28	5
2022 Beijing	32	5	—

• The Aerials team was added as an event in 2022.

Recognition

• Canberra Sports Awards - Athlete of the Year - Women’s Sport:202, 2021, 2025

References

1. "Laura Peel". Sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
2. "Laura Peel". olympedia.org. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
3. "Laura PEEL Freestyle Skiing - Beijing 2022 Olympics". 21 February 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
4. "Laura Peel Olympic Profile | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 13 April 2022.

External links

• Laura Peel at FIS (freestyle)
• Laura Peel at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Laura Peel at Olympedia