Jenny Owens
Jenny Owens  
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| birthday | 17th May 1978 (age 42) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Sydney , Australia | ||||||||
| size | 168 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg | ||||||||
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Alpine skiing freestyle skiing |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2014 | ||||||||
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Jenny Owens (born May 17, 1978 in Sydney ) is a former Australian skier who first worked as a ski racer and later as a freestyle skier in the discipline of ski cross .
biography
Owens won her first of five Australian championship titles in 1998. The best result at Junior World Championships that same year was an eleventh place in the downhill. She made her debut in the Alpine Ski World Cup on December 17, 1999 in St. Moritz , where she finished 46th in the downhill. The following day she finished 29th in the same discipline and scored World Cup points for the first time.
Owens stated that it was difficult to catch up with the world's best and therefore increasingly took part in continental championships. In the winters of 2000/01 and 2001/02 she achieved a podium in each of the European Cup runs. She achieved her best World Cup result on January 13, 2002 with 17th place in the combination of Saalbach-Hinterglemm . At the 2002 Winter Olympics , she was ninth in the combination.
Further successes in alpine skiing failed to materialize and Owens resigned in January 2004 for financial reasons. In summer 2005 she decided to switch to freestyle skiing and compete in the ski cross discipline. On January 20, 2006 Owens started in Kreischberg for the first time in a ski cross world cup race and immediately finished eighth. The best result in their inaugural season was a fourth place in the Sierra Nevada . She achieved her first podium on January 16, 2008 in Flaine with second place, followed by third place four days later in Kreischberg.
Owens achieved another podium in the 2008/09 season. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she finished in 13th place. In the World Cup season, she was regularly among the top ten (including a third place), at the Freestyle World Championships in 2011 she was fifth. In 2012 she won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games .
Owens ended her active career after the 2013-14 season .
Alpine successes
- Olympic games
- 2002 Turin : 9th combination, 29th downhill, 29th Super-G
- World championships
- St. Anton 2001 : 31st downhill, 31st giant slalom, 34th Super-G, 36th slalom
- Junior World Championships
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 12th giant slalom, 22nd downhill, 29th Super-G
- Schladming 1997 : 27th descent, 22nd giant slalom
- Megève 1998 : 11th downhill, 32nd Super-G, 42nd giant slalom
- World cup
- 3 placements among the best 30
- More Achievements
- 5 Australian championship titles (giant slalom 1998, 2001, 2002, 2008; slalom 2002)
- 2 podium places in the European Cup
- 6 wins in the Australian New Zealand Cup
- 2 victories in FIS races
Success freestyle
- Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 13th ski cross
- Sochi 2014 : 12th ski cross
- World championships
- Inawashiro 2009 : 15th ski cross
- Deer Valley 2011 : 5th ski cross
- World cup
- 15 placements among the top ten, including 4 podium places
- More Achievements
- Winter X Games 2012: 3rd Skier X
Web links
- Jenny Owens website
- Jenny Owens in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Freestyle)
- Jenny Owens in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Alpine)
- Jenny Owens in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Jenny Owens in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time to say good-bye: Freestyle Skiing retirements ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. April 30, 2014. Archived from the original on September 2, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Owens, Jenny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |