Jacqui Cooper

Jacqueline Cooper is an Australian motivational speaker and retired freestyle skier, born on 6 January 1973. She started skiing aerials at sixteen and was on the Australian team for twenty years, suffering many injuries along the way. She finished sixteenth at the 1994 Winter Olympics, crashed out of qualification in 1998, and a training accident shattered her knee the week before the 2002 Games, where she had been a favourite. After a silver at the 2004 Mount Buller World Aerials she entered the 2006 Olympic final as favourite with a world record qualifying score of 213.56 but crashed on both jumps. She won 24 World Cup gold medals, became the first Australian woman to make five Olympic teams and finished fifth in 2010. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Jacqui Cooper.