Jason Begg-Smith

Jason Begg-Smith is an Australian-Canadian freestyle skier born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 21 November 1980, and the older brother of Olympic gold medalist Dale Begg-Smith. He competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin for Australia, finishing 29th in the men's moguls qualification. In only his third year of competing he became Canadian junior national champion at sixteen, and he represented Canada on the World Cup circuit in 2001 before taking Australian citizenship and joining the Australian moguls team. He coached his younger brother from 2002 to 2014 and received the Snow Australia Hall of Fame medal in 2021. He also holds a Caribbean swordfish record of 392 pounds, landed after fourteen and a half hours. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Jason Begg-Smith.