Britteny Cox
Australian freestyle skier
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| Born | (1994-09-29) 29 September 1994 (age 29) Wodonga, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (9 st 4 lb; 130 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle Skiing | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Mogul Skiing | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Steve Desovich, Jerry Grossi | |||||||||||||||||
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Britteny Cox (born 29 September 1994) is an Australian mogul skier. Growing up in the Victorian alpine resort of Falls Creek, Cox was born into a mogul skiing environment, with her family passionate mogul skiers.
Cox was the youngest athlete to compete at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.[2]
Since the Vancouver Olympics, Cox has continued to improve, winning Australia's first ever female World Cup mogul skiing medal, after finishing third at the 2011–12 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Deer Valley, Utah.[3] In 2013 Cox won her second World Cup bronze at the 2012–13 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup. Brittany Cox won the Crystal Globe for Women's Moguls at the 2016-2017 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup with 7 victories and several other podium finishes. She is the first female Australian Mogul skier to win the crystal globe.
She competed at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011, FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Britteny is a scholarship athlete with the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Sport.
References
- ^ "Britt Cox". sochi2014.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Athlete Biography – Britteny Cox". AOC. AOC.
- ^ "Cox-wins Australia's first women's moguls world cup medal". OWI. OWI. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Britteny Cox's profile at the International Ski Federation
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- 1986: Mary Jo Tiampo (USA)
- 1989: Raphaëlle Monod (FRA)
- 1991: Donna Weinbrecht (USA)
- 1993: Stine Lise Hattestad (NOR)
- 1995: Candice Gilg (FRA)
- 1997: Candice Gilg (FRA)
- 1999: Ann Battelle (USA)
- 2001: Kari Traa (NOR)
- 2003: Kari Traa (NOR)
- 2005: Hannah Kearney (USA)
- 2007: Kristi Richards (CAN)
- 2009: Aiko Uemura (JPN)
- 2011: Jennifer Heil (CAN)
- 2013: Hannah Kearney (ZSA)
- 2015: Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN)
- 2017: Britteny Cox (AUS)
- 2019: Yuliya Galysheva (KAZ)
- 2021: Perrine Laffont (FRA)
- 2023: Perrine Laffont (FRA)
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