Kaya Turski
Canadian freestyle skier (born 1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]