Jacqui Cooper

Jacqueline " Jacqui " Cooper ( born January 6, 1973 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian freestyle skier. She was dedicated to the discipline Aerials ( jumping) and is one of the most successful athletes ever. She became world champion in 1999, three times she won the overall title of the Freestyle World Cup Aerials and five times the discipline standings. There are also two more medals at world championships and 24 victories in World Cup competition.

Biography

In her youth, Cooper was a trampoline gymnast until 1989, the head of the Olympic Winter Sports Institute of Australia was aware of them and moved them to switch to freestyle jumping. Your first assignment in an international competition was at the 1991 World Championships in Lake Placid, where it reached number 18. On March 1, 1992 Cooper made ​​her debut in the Freestyle World Cup and jumped while in Inawashiro to 15th place. In the following years she established herself close to the world's best, scoring regularly top 10 rankings. For the first time she stood on the podium on March 2, 1997, when she was second in Hasliberg.

After three more podium finishes at the beginning of the season 1997/98 Cooper won on January 31, 1998 Breckenridge her first World Cup competition. With two more victories, they took second place in the discipline standings. In the season 1998/99 Cooper dominated almost at will. She won three times in the World Cup and thus decided both disciplines as well as the overall title for themselves. At the World Championship 1999 in Hasliberg she won the gold medal. In the winter of 1999/2000 followed by four more wins, again it was disciplines and World Cup overall winner. Also in the World Cup season 2000/ 01 Cooper was superior to the competition and decided for the third time in a row, both ratings. At the World Cup in 2001, it achieved the worst result of the season with the 6th place.

In winter 2001/ 02 Cooper won two World Cup competitions and was before the 2002 Winter Olympics to the most frequently mentioned favorites. A week before the Olympic competition in Deer Valley it crashed in training and withdrew it a serious knee injury. Numerous complications had a total of four operations result and meant that she could no longer work over 16 months. In September 2004, Cooper was in Mount Buller her comeback and placed at once in second. The first World Cup victory after a long injury break followed in December of the same year. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 Cooper scored in qualifying with 213.56 points, setting a new world record, but in the final she could not stand both jumps and was only eighth. Two weeks later, she won another World Cup competition.

Cooper was in the winter of 2006 /07, again the dominant athlete. You could win four times in the World Cup and decided for the fourth time the Aerials - discipline rating for herself as she took second place in the overall standings. At the 2007 World Championships in Madonna di Campiglio, she won the bronze medal. The winning streak continued in the winter of 2007 /08. With five victories in eight starts, it became the fifth time winner of the Aerials - discipline standings in the overall standings, she was again second best. In the 2008 /09 season was a second place to her best World Cup result, at the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro she won again the bronze medal. Cooper qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Cypress Mountain and jumped to 5th place. The Olympic competition was the last of her career, in November 2010 she gave her resignation from the top sports known.

Besides her athletic activities Cooper was also active in various sports organizations. She was a member of the Directorate of the Australian Olympic Committee ( AOC) and the Australian Ski and Snowboard Association, Vice -President of the Athletes' Commission of the AOC, as well as a member of the Athletes Commissions of the Australian Institute of Sport, the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS ), the FIS Freestyle Committee and the World Anti- Doping Agency.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Lillehammer 1994: 16 Aerials
  • Nagano 1998: 23 Aerials
  • Turin 2006: 18 Aerials
  • Vancouver 2010: 5 Aerials

World Championships

  • Lake Placid 1991: 18 Aerials
  • Altenmarkt 1993 8 Aerials
  • La Clusaz 1995 8 Aerials
  • Nagano 1997: 20 Aerials
  • Hasliberg 1999: 1st Aerials
  • Whistler 2001: 6 Aerials
  • Ruka 2005: 14 Aerials
  • Madonna di Campiglio 2007: 3rd Aerials
  • Inawashiro 2009: 3 Aerials

World Cup ratings

  • 1992/93 Season: 7 Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1993/94: 7 Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1994/95: 8 Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1996/ 97: 5 Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1997/ 98: 4th overall World Cup, 2nd Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1998/99: first overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
  • Season 1999/ 00: first overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2000/ 01: first overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2001/ 02: 2nd Overall World Cup, 2nd Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2004/ 05: 5 Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2006/ 07: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2007/ 08: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
  • Season 2008/ 09: 9 Aerials World Cup

World Cup wins

Cooper won 39 podiums including 24 victories:

Freestyle-Skiing FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1999 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2007 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2009 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2006–07 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2007–08 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1991 Lake Placid, New York Inawashiro (Fukushima) Breckenridge (Colorado) FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2001 Mount Buller (Victoria) Cypress Mountain Ski Area Freestyle skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1993 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1995 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1997 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2005 2008–09 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup France Mont-Tremblant, Quebec Steamboat Springs, Colorado Piancavallo Italy Davos Lianhua County The Age The Daily Telegraph (Australia) Alisa Camplin Li Nina Cheng Shuang Xu Mengtao
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