Jennie-Lee Burmansson grew up near the ski resort of Tandådalen , came to skiing at an early age and already at the age of 8 to freestyle.
Burmansson has been taking part in AFP World Tour and FIS competitions since the 2016/17 season . In January 2017 she took third and first place in slopestyle and second place in big air at the European Cup in St. Anton am Arlberg . The following month she was third in slopestyle at the SFR Tour in La Clusaz and second at the Nor Freeski Cup in Trysil . At the 2017 Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco , she won the silver medal in slopestyle. In August 2017 she made her debut in Cardrona in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup . She took third place in slopestyle. In November 2017 she won her first World Cup victory in slopestyle in Stubai at her second World Cup appearance. This was followed by two second and one third place and thus reached third place in the overall World Cup and first place in the Slopestyle World Cup.
At the end of January 2018, she won the bronze medal in slopestyle at the Winter X Games in Aspen . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she took eighth place in slopestyle. At the end of March 2018 she became Swedish champion in slopestyle and big air. At the X-Games Norway 2018 in Fornebu , she won the gold medal in Big Air. In September 2018 she injured an anterior cruciate ligament in New Zealand and had to take a year off.
In Lausanne , the 17-year-old finished third in the Slopestyle Youth Olympic Winter Games in January 2020 , behind Estonian Kelly Sildaru and the American Eileen Gu, who started for China . Another bronze medal came in the big air competition, behind Gu and the British Kirsty Muir .
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