Kaya Turski

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Kaya Turski
Personal information
Birth name Hannah Kaya Turski[1]
Born (1988-05-03) May 3, 1988 (age 36)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg; 8.6 st)
Website www.kayaturski.com/kaya.html
Sport
Country Canada
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.

References

  1. ↑ http://instagram.com/p/expHDEmDTd/
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  3. ↑ http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=FS&raceid=6118
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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