Anna Segal

Anna Segal

Personal information
Born	(1986-08-15) 15 August 1986 (age 38) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height	164 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Freestyle Skiing
Event	Ski Slopestyle Women
Medal record Women's Freestyle skiing Representing  Australia FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013 Silvaplana Slopestyle 2012 Copper Mt. Slopestyle 2011 Deer Valley Slopestyle US Freeski Open 2007 Copper Mt. Slopestyle Winter Dew Tour 2013 Breckenridge Slopestyle 2012 Snowbasin Slopestyle 2011 Snowbasin Halfpipe 2010 Snowbasin Halfpipe 2009 Mt. Snow Slopestyle 2008 Breckenridge Slopestyle Winter X Games 2012 Aspen Slopestyle 2012 Tignes Slopestyle 2009 Aspen Slopestyle
Updated on 6 February 2014

Anna Segal (born 15 August 1986) is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.

Segal won the gold medal for the inaugural Women's Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk Mountain on 24 January 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. She also won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. She won the gold medal as well in the Slopestyle at the 2012 AFP World Championships in Whistler, Canada.

Early life

Segal was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her parents are Susan Davis and Alan Segal. She was educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak, matriculating in 2004.^[2] She has a degree in Arts & Commerce from Monash University (2015).^[3] Her sister Nat Segal is a professional skier.^[4]

Skiing career

Segal's home mountain is Whistler Blackcomb in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Segal initially began competitive skiing as a mogul skier, and subsequently moved into freeskiing events. She was a member of the NSWIS/SSA National Development mogul team 2003–05 and competed in several Europa Cup Mogul events during that time. She suffered a serious knee injury in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Her first major win in slopestyle was the Women's US Freeskiing Open at Copper Mountain, USA, in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

She won the gold medal for the inaugural Women's Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk Mountain on 24 January 2009 in Aspen, Colorado.^[5] She also won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.^[6] Segal was named the 2011 Australian Snowsports Person of the Year by Skiing and Snowboarding Australia^[7]

Segal broke her thumb and damaged her knee in January 2012. She won the gold medal in the Slopestyle at the 2012 AFP World Championships in Whistler, Canada.^[8]

In early 2013, Segal damaged her left knee at a World Cup event in Switzerland.^[4] She took 3rd in Slopestyle at the FIS USA World Cup in 2013.^[9]

Segal competed for Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, four weeks after learning she had torn the ACL in her knee.^[10] She came in fourth place, eight points behind bronze medalist Canadian Kim Lamarre in the women's ski slopestyle. It was Australia's first fourth-place finish ever in Winter Olympics history.^[11]

Segal retired from competitive skiing after the Olympics.^[10] During her career she sustained three ACL reconstructions, two meniscal tears, cartilage damage in her knee, a broken ankle, a broken thumb, and a few concussions.^[12]

Anna is now based in Whistler, Canada, with a focus on backcountry skiing and progressing women’s extreme skiing through ski films.

Anna co-produced her first feature film, Finding The Line (2018) alongside her sister, Nat Segal. The film has been screened at film festivals and events across the world and was recently purchased by Red Bull Media House.

Anna has filmed with ski film production companies: Warren Miller Entertainment (USA) and BLANK Collective Films (CAN)

References

1. "Anna Segal". sochi2014.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
2. "Anna Segal - St Catherines School". St Catherines School. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
3. ""Anna Segal – Professional Skier"". Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
4. "Sochi Winter Olympics: Anna Segal finishes fourth in women's ski slopestyle," The Sydney Morning Herald.
5. "Anna Segal in Winter X Games Day 3" - Zimbio
6. "FIS-Ski - resultats". Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
7. Segal, Anna. "AnnaSegal". X Games. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
8. Segal, Anna (18 April 2012). "AFP Champs: Slopestyle". ESPN. ESPN. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
9. ""About Me – Anna Segal – Professional Skier"". Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
10. Sixty seconds with Anna Segal - SnowsBest
11. "Australian Olympic Committee: Anna Segal"
12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.

External links

• FIS-Ski.com Profile