Elizabeth Swaney

Elizabeth Marian Swaney is an American athlete who competed for Hungary in the women's halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics, born on 30 July 1984. She placed last in her only Olympic event, drawing media attention for how she qualified and for the apparent lack of effort in her runs. She grew up in Oakland, California, was a coxswain on the University of California, Berkeley men's crew, and earned a master's degree from Harvard. Having sought Olympic places in bobsleigh and skeleton, she took up freestyle skiing, first hoping to represent Venezuela, her mother's homeland, and from 2015 skiing for Hungary because of her grandparents' birthplace. She qualified by entering World Cup events with fewer than thirty participants. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Elizabeth Swaney.