Jenny Jones is a British professional snowboarder, born on 3 July 1980 in Downend, Bristol, who became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in a snow event when she took bronze in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She learnt to ski at 17 on a dry slope in Somerset, spent a season working as a chalet maid in Tignes. She won X Games gold in the United States in 2009 and 2010 and in Europe in 2010, and scored her first World Cup podium with a slopestyle silver in August 2013. The Ski Club of Great Britain awarded her the Pery Medal in 2014. After retiring from competition she has presented for the BBC, including coverage of the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics.
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is a British professional snowboarder
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Born 3 July 1980
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Career: three X Games golds and a World Cup silver; the Olympic bronze is in the Lead
Jones won the X Games USA Gold in 2009 and 2010, and the X Games Europe Gold in 2010. In August 2013 Jones scored her first podium finish in a round of the FIS Snowboard World Cup, winning a silver in slopestyle
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On 9 February 2014 she finished third behind Jamie Anderson and Enni Rukajärvi to win a bronze medal in the women's slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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