Jenny Owens

Jenny Owens is an Australian alpine and freestyle skier born on 17 May 1978 who competed in the 2002, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games. At 35 in Sochi she became the oldest woman to compete for Australia at the Winter Olympics, matching the age of the oldest Australian man, Frank Prijonda in 1956. She made her Alpine World Cup debut in St Moritz on 17 December 1999, had a best Alpine World Cup placing of 17th and retired from alpine racing in 2004 before making a comeback in the new Olympic event of ski cross. She competed for six years on the Alpine World Cup tour and nine years on the Freestyle World Cup, and won the bronze medal in SkierX at the 2012 Winter X Games. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Jenny Owens.