James Machon (skier)

James Machon
Personal information
NicknameMach[1]
NationalityBritish
Born (1990-11-23) 23 November 1990 (age 34)
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
EducationBamford Primary School[2]
Alma materLeeds Metropolitan University[3]
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Websitewww.jamesmachon.blogspot.com
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportFreestyle skiing
EventHalfpipe
ClubGB Freeski team
Coached byPat Sharples
Jamie Matthew
Updated on 17 February 2014

James Machon (born 23 November 1990) is a freestyle skier who competes in the halfpipe, his first Olympics was the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Biography

Machon was born on 23 November 1990, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.[4] He was schooled at Bamford Primary School,[2] and went to Leeds Metropolitan University.[3] He started skiing at the age of 6. Between the age of 6 and until he was 14, went on annual ski holidays with his family.[4] He began practising freestyle skiing in the Sheffield freestyle skiing park when he was 15 years old.[4] Half-pipe skiing is snow ski on a half-pipe. The sport is considered to be dangerous compared to other sports, and helmets are required to be worn during competitions. Half-pipe skiing has been part of the Winter X Games since 2002, and has been approved to be an official sport at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

In 2006 Machon entered his first British Championships, and in the period from 2009 to 2013 (inclusive), Machon won four consecutive British Halfpipe Championships.[4] At the start of the Olympic qualifying season, Machon was ranked in the top 15 by the Association of Freeskiing Professionals, a position he feels is his "greatest sporting achievement so far".[5] Shortly before the selection for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Machon was recovering from a severe[2] knee injury,[6] he had a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament, which kept him from competing for eight months;[2][7] it was torn in training in Austria.[3] Machon said that his competing after he tore his ligament was "looking virtually impossible", but he was happy he overcame the injury.[7]

Olympics

Machon's Olympic debut was at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,[4] which was also the first time skiing halfpipe had been at an Olympics.[8] He competed on 18 February 2014[9] in the halfpipe, an event in freestyle skiing.[4] He finished 23rd.[10]

Family

Machon's brother, Robert, also skis competitively, and is a member of the England Team.[7]

References

  1. ^ "James Machon". GB Free Ski. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Freestyler James Machon living Olympic dream in Sochi". The Derbyshire times. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "James Machon". Sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original on 17 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "James Machon". Team GB. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Ski halfpipe champion James Machon hopes to be on the podium in Sochi". Olympic.org. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  6. ^ Fidler, Richard (22 January 2014). "Winter Olympics: Sheffield's Woods, Machon and Summerhayes named for Sochi". The Star. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  7. ^ a b c "Graduate and skiing champ set for Winter Olympics". Leeds Metropolitan University. 30 January 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Sochi hope Machon still inspired by Ennis Olympic gold". Team GB. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  9. ^ Russell, Sophie (17 February 2014). "Sochi Olympics 2014: Day 11 Preview – Murray Buchan, James Machon and Elise Christie". International Business Times. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  10. ^ Barretto, Lawrence; Lewis, Aimee (18 February 2014). "Live Reporting". BBC. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

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