Katie Summerhayes

Katie Summerhayes is an English freestyle skier born on 8 October 1995. She carried the flag at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, and in February 2013 became the first British female skier to win a medal in a World Cup event for 19 years when she finished second in the slopestyle competition in Silvaplana. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi she qualified third and came seventh in the slopestyle final. She won slopestyle gold at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Valmalenco and in 2015 became the first British female competitor to win a World Championship medal in freestyle skiing, taking silver in slopestyle. She learned to ski at the Sheffield Ski Village. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Katie Summerhayes.