Kirstie Marshall

Kirstie Claire Marshall, born in Melbourne on 21 April 1969, is an Australian aerial skier and Victorian state politician. A former gymnast, she became an aerial skier at Mount Buller, Victoria, and won over 40 World Cup medals including 17 golds. She competed in aerial skiing as a demonstration sport at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics and as a medal event at Lillehammer in 1994 and Nagano in 1998, finishing sixth and fourteenth. In December 2002 she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party, and on 26 February 2003 she was ejected from the chamber for breastfeeding her eleven day old baby, after which the Speaker set aside a room where female members could feed their children. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Kirstie Marshall.