Rowan Cheshire

Rowan Cheshire
Personal information
Born (1995-09-01) 1 September 1995
Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Sport
Sport Freestyle skiing
Event(s) Halfpipe

Rowan Cheshire (born 1 September 1995) is a British freestyle skier, specialising in the halfpipe. Cheshire competed in the 2013 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Voss, Norway. She placed 17th.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Valmalenco. In January 2014 she became the first British female skier to win a halfpipe competition on the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup when she took the halfpipe event at a meeting in Calgary. This was the first Freestyle World Cup win for a British female skier since Jilly Curry won an aerials competition in 1992.[2]

She was competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,[3] during which she was knocked unconscious whilst in training.[4][5] Since the crash, she has now withdrawn from the Olympics.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "World Ski Championships - Ladies' Halfpipe". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Rowan Cheshire wins halfpipe gold in skiing World Cup". bbc.co.uk. 3 January 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rowan Cheshire". sochi2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Sochi 2014: British skier Cheshire knocked out". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sochi 2014: British skier Rowan Cheshire remembers little of crash". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sochi 2014: British skier Rowan Cheshire withdraws from halfpipe". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
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