Laura Peel

Laura Peel
nation	Australia
birthday	29th September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Canberra
size	174 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	Aerials
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Freestyle Skiing World Championships gold Kreischberg 2015 Aerials
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup January 16, 2011  World Cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 5th ( 2019/20 )  Aerials World Cup 1. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Aerials 4th 4th 5
last change: March 18, 2020

Laura Peel (born September 29, 1989 in Canberra ) is an Australian freestyle skier . She specializes in the aerials (jumping) discipline. In 2015 she became world champion.

biography

Peel began her sports career as an artistic gymnast before switching to freestyle jumping. She made her debut in the World Cup on January 16, 2011 in Mont Gabriel , where she reached 15th place and immediately won her first World Cup points. At the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley , she jumped to 11th place. The best result in her premiere season was a sixth place. The first World Cup podium was achieved on January 15, 2012 with 3rd place in Mont Gabriel; it was only her fifth participation in the World Cup. She celebrated her only World Cup victory so far on February 17, 2012 on the Kreischberg . In the 2012/13 World Cup season , she jumped to second place twice, while she was eighth at the 2013 World Championships in Voss .

In the World Cup season 2013/14 was a fifth place Peel's best result at the Olympic Winter Games 2015 in Sochi she jumped to seventh place. After a rather moderate start to the 2014/15 World Cup season , she surprisingly won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships . The following winter she was unable to compete due to an injury. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season she made her comeback; her best result this winter was a third place. At the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she again came eighth. During the 2017/18 World Cup season, she finished third twice, and fifth at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

In the 2018/19 World Cup , Peel managed to win and another podium, and in fourth place at the 2019 World Cup , she just missed a medal. Two more victories as well as a second and third place each came in the 2019/20 World Cup , which was enough for her to take first place in the discipline ranking.

successes

Olympic games

• Sochi 2014 : 7th Aerials
• Pyeongchang 2018 : 5th Aerials

World championships

• Deer Valley 2011 : 11th Aerials
• Voss 2013 : 8th Aerials
• Kreischberg 2015 : 1. Aerials
• Sierra Nevada 2017 : 8th Aerials
• Park City 2019 : 4th Aerials Individual, 7th Aerials Team

World Cup ratings

season	total		Aerials
	space	Points	space	Points
2010/11	55.	15th	17th	104
2011/12	11.	41	4th	407
2012/13	17th	41	4th	285
2013/14	33.	29	9.	143
2014/15	30th	30.71	8th.	215
2016/17	28.	33.29	6th	233
2017/18	41.	30.00	7th	180
2018/19	12.	51.20	3.	256
2019/20	5.	67.00	1.	469

World Cup victories

Peel has achieved 13 podium places in the World Cup so far, including 4 victories:

date	place	country
17th February 2012	Kreischberg	Austria
2nd March 2019	Shimao Lotus Mountain	China
February 22, 2020	Minsk	Belarus
March 8, 2020	Krasnoyarsk	Russia

More Achievements

• 5 podiums in the European Cup, including 2 wins

Web links

• Laura Peel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Profile Olympic Winter Institute of Australia