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Australia's snow sport athletes have started their seasons with a bang, securing World Cup medals in Finland and China. Key points: Jakara Anthony won the opening FIS moguls World Cup event of the season in Ruka Tess Coady returned to Beijing to win silver in the FIS snowboard World Cup big air event Both athletes won medals at the 2022 …

Olympic gold medallist Jakara Anthony and Matt Graham say FIS moguls World Cup success is just the beginning

It has been an extraordinary 12 months for Jakara Anthony. Anthony was on fire that night, claiming Australia's sixth-ever Winter Games gold medal on what was Australia's own Super Sunday, following Tess Coady's snowboard slopestyle bronze. As Australia's only gold medallist from those Games though, Anthony has gone from the relative anonymity most winter sports athletes enjoy between Olympic cycles …

Camaraderie and team spirit help Australia to best-ever daily Winter Olympic medal haul

Sunday, February 6 will live long in the memory for Australia's winter sport athletes. Key points: Sunday was the first time Australia had ever won two Winter Olympic medals on the same day Tess Coady and Jakara Anthony have both called out the strong team spirit within the Australian camp as motivation for their success Chef de mission Geoff Lipshut …

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Jakara Anthony’s Winter Olympic gold medal was close to moguls perfection

You are Australia's sixth Winter Olympics gold medallist. Jakara Anthony is Australia's first Winter Olympic gold medallist since 2010. Her relentless excellence was too much for reigning world and Olympic champion Perrine Laffont and current world cup leader Anri Kawamura, women many observers pegged as Anthony's biggest challengers but who faltered when it counted to finish outside the medals. Anthony …

Jakara Anthony has laid down a marker at a frigid Genting Snow Park to qualify in first position for Sunday's women's moguls finals, where she will be joined by Britt Cox, who finished ninth. Key points: Jakara Anthony smashed the qualifiers with a score of 83.75 Her rival, France's Perrine Laffont, qualified second with 81.11 Reigning silver medallist Matt Graham …