Torah Bright

Torah Jane Bright was born on 27 December 1986 in Cooma, New South Wales, and is an Australian former professional snowboarder who won the halfpipe gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the halfpipe silver medal at the 2014 Games in Sochi. She started out as a downhill ski racer, and her brother Ben, also a professional snowboarder, was her coach; her older sister Rowena skied for Australia at the 2002 Olympics. She won Winter X Games gold in the superpipe in 2007, the first Australian snowboarder to do so, was the 2007 Ticket to Ride world champion and also won the US Open. She carried the Australian flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Games, and in 2014 she became the first Olympic athlete to qualify for all three snowboarding disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and boarder-cross, finishing seventh in slopestyle. She retired from competition in January 2020, appeared in the documentary Out of Bounds and was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2025.