Kaya Turski
Personal information
Birth nameHannah Kaya Turski[1]
Born (1988-05-03) May 3, 1988 (age 35)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight120 lb (54 kg; 8.6 st)
Websitewww.kayaturski.com/kaya.html
Sport
CountryCanada
Medal record
Women's freestyle skiing
Representing  Canada
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Voss Slopestyle
Silver medal – second place 2011 Deer Valley Slopestyle
Winter X Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Aspen Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2010 Tignes Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2011 Aspen Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tignes Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2012 Aspen Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2012 Tignes Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tignes Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2014 Aspen Slopestyle
Silver medal – second place 2013 Aspen Slopestyle

Kaya Turski (born May 3, 1988) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She is an eight-time Winter X Games champion in Women's Ski slope style. At the 2010 Winter X Games XIV held in Aspen, she won her gold medal with the highest ever slopestyle score at a Winter X Games with 96.66. One week after she won the gold medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, ahead of Keri Herman and Grete Eliassen,[2] she captured the silver medal at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships,[3] behind Anna Segal of Australia. In mid-2013, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament.[4]

Involved in aggressive inline skating in her early teen years, Turski had limited experience in skiing when she moved to Whistler from Montreal to train in the sport, aged 17.[4] She speaks English, French, and Polish.[5] Her grandmother was a Polish skier who moved to Canada with her two sons after World War II.[6]

Kaya currently resides in Montreal and Mammoth Lakes, CA. She participated in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

On October 3, 2017, Turski announced her retirement from freestyle skiing.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Login • Instagram". Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. ((cite web)): Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ^ "Women's Ski Slopestyle Results". EXPN.com. 28 January 2011. Archived from the original on January 31, 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Results. Park City Mountain Resort (USA). Slopestyle. 03.02.2011. World Ski Championships". fis-ski.com. February 3, 2011. Archived from the original on February 7, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  4. ^ a b Buchner, Jill (February 2014). "Team Canada slopestyle skier: Kaya Turski". Canadian Living.
  5. ^ "Kaya TURSKI". Sochi2014.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Fitz-Gerald, Sean (January 21, 2014). "Freestyle skier Kaya Turski draws strength, confidence from her family". Canada.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  7. ^ "Kaya Turski announces her retirement from freestyle skiing". CBC. October 3, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2018.

External links


World champions in women's freestyle skiing slopestyle
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