Kaya Turski

Kaya Turski
nation	Canada
birthday	May 3, 1988
place of birth	Montreal
size	165 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Slopestyle
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × X-Games 8 × 1 × 1 ×
Freestyle Skiing World Championships silver 2011 Park City Slopestyle gold 2013 Voss Slopestyle  X-Games bronze 2009 Aspen Slopestyle gold 2010 Aspen Slopestyle gold 2010 Tignes Slopestyle gold 2011 Aspen Slopestyle gold 2011 Tignes Slopestyle gold 2012 Aspen Slopestyle gold 2012 Tignes Slopestyle gold 2013 Tignes Slopestyle silver 2013 Aspen Slopestyle gold 2014 Aspen Slopestyle
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup March 4, 2012  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 47th ( 2011/12 )  Slopestyle World Cup 1st ( 2011/12 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Slopestyle 1 0 0
last change: June 29, 2015

Kaya Turski (born May 3, 1988 in Montreal ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . She starts in the discipline of slopestyle and big air .

Career

Turski has been participating in AFP World Tour competitions since the 2008/09 season. She reached her first podium finish in August 2008 with third place at the New Zealand Freeski Open in Wanaka . In the further course of the season she won three competitions on the Winter Dew Tour and the European Freeski Open in Laax . She won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games 2009 in Aspen . The following year she won the gold medal at the Winter X Games and the Winter X Games Europe in Tignes . She also repeated this in 2011 and 2012. At the Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2011 in Park City , she won the silver medal. In the 2011/12 season she won two races on the Winter Dew Tour. She completed her first FIS World Cup race in March 2012 in Mammoth , which she also won and thus also took first place in the Slopestyle World Cup. In January 2013 she won the silver medal at the Winter X Games . Two months later she became world champion in slopestyle at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Voss and won the gold medal at the following Winter X Games Europe in Tignes. From 2009 to 2013 she won the AFP World Tour Slopestyle Championship. In January 2014 she won the gold medal again at the Winter X Games in Aspen . The following month, she won 19th place in her first Olympic participation in Sochi in the first-ever slopestyle competition. At the X-Games Oslo 2016 she came sixth in Big Air. In the 2016/17 season she was fourth in Big Air at the Winter X-Games 2017 and fifth in Slopestyle at the X-Games Norway 2017 in Hafjell .

Web links

• Kaya Turski in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kaya Turski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Kaya Turski on afpworldtour.com