Rowan Cheshire

Rowan Cheshire is a British freestyle skier, specialising in the halfpipe, born on 1 September 1995. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Valmalenco and in January 2014 became the first British female skier to win a halfpipe competition on the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup, at Calgary. She was knocked unconscious in training at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and withdrew, the first of three head injuries in eighteen months that left her with severe side effects. After two years away she returned to competition in December 2016, and at the 2018 Winter Olympics she qualified for the halfpipe skiing final. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Rowan Cheshire.