Rebecca Torr

Rebecca Torr
nation	New Zealand
birthday	March 15, 1990
place of birth	Tauranga , Bay of Plenty ,  New Zealand
size	173 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Snowboarder
Career
discipline	Slopestyle
society	Mount Ruapehu Competitive Freestyle Team
Trainer	Jody Blatchley
status	active
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup January 9, 2013  World Cup victories 0  Slopestyle World Cup 9. ( 2012/13 )
TTR World Snowboard Tour
TTR debut December 16, 2012 last change: February 2, 2015

Rebecca Torr (born March 15, 1990 in Tauranga , Bay of Plenty ) is a New Zealand snowboarder.

biography

Torr started her snowboard career in 2002 at the age of only 12 with the Mount Ruapehu Competitive Freestyle Team , under the direction of former snowboarder Jody Blatchley , on Mount Ruapehu in Te Puke . In 2010 she took part for the first time in a slopestyle event of the FIS, as part of the Snowboard Junior World Championships , on a professional level in Wanaka , Stoneham in Canada and was awarded the “Ball Park Rookie of the Year” award. This was followed by her senior debut at the X-Games in Aspen (Colorado) in 2012 before making her Snowboard World Championship debut in Oslo , Norway . At this World Cup in 2012, she celebrated 11th place, a considerable success.

At the Slopestyle Event as part of the Snowboard World Cup on January 19, 2014 in Stoneham; she celebrated her 9th place, her greatest success so far. A month later, she took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for her home country New Zealand .

Personal

Torr was born in Tauranga and grew up in neighboring Te Puke in the Western Bay of Plenty District . There she attended Fairhaven School Te Puke Elementary School before continuing her education at Te Puke High School from 2004 to 2008 . During the Olympic Games, she came out as a user of the dating app Tinder , which brought her a media-rich meeting with the Jamaican bobsleigh team .

Web links

• Rebecca Torr in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Rebecca Torr in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at ttrworldtour.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rebecca Torr . www.sochi2014.com. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
2. ↑ TORR Rebecca - Biography - FIS Last results
3. ↑ Winter Dew Tour
4. ↑ Rebecca Torr . New Zealand Olympic Committee , accessed May 5, 2018 .  
5. ↑ Rebecca Torr keeps slopestyle tricks up sleeve | Stuff.co.nz
6. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Rebecca Torr »Snow Sports New Zealand ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Fis-Ski.com  - Biography
9. ↑ Possum Torr - Cardrona Parks NZ ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Rebecca Torr | World Snowboard Tour
11. ↑ Harding, David: Winter Olympics: Snowboarder Rebecca Torr looks for love in Sochi using Tinder app . In: New York Daily News , February 9, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014. 
12. ↑ Snowboarder Rebecca Torr's focus on execution | Stuff.co.nz
13. ↑ Wonderful news for Rebecca (Poss) Torr
14. ^ North Island Secondary Schools Snowboarding Competition . (PDF 1.0 MB) Primo-K2 , September 2006, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).  
15. ↑ 'Just wanna match with the Jamaican bobsleigh team!' The New Zealand snowboard star who is desperate to find an Olympian lover in Sochi
16. ↑ Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: Kiwi snowboarder Rebecca Torr denies plan to date Jamaican bobsleigh team