Georgia Simmerling

Georgia Simmerling is a Canadian road and track cyclist, born on 11 March 1989, who also competed in alpine skiing and ski cross and is the first Canadian to compete in three different sports in three different Olympic Games. She represented Canada in alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where her best result was 27th in the super giant slalom, and switched to ski cross in 2011. After a crash that broke three vertebrae she made her breakthrough in the 2013 to 2014 World Cup, with two third places, and placed 14th in ski cross at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She then turned to cycling and won bronze in team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Georgia Simmerling.