Anja Niamh Barugh (born 21 May 1999) is a New Zealand
freestyle skier
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...
who specialises in
halfpipe
A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, skating, and scooter riding.
Overview
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. She represented New Zealand at the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
in Beijing, where she ranked 19th.
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Biography
Barugh was born in Morrinsville on 21 May 1999, the daughter of Kevin and Kerry-Lea Barugh. When she was six years old, she began skiing at Mount Ruapehu, and moved from Pukehina to Wānaka in 2017, completing her final year of secondary school by correspondence.FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980. Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. ...
debut in the 2018–2019 season, finishing with a World Cup ranking of 21st in halfpipe. In the following three seasons, she ranked 30th, 20th, and 27th, respectively. She competed in the freeski halfpipe at the 2021 World Championships
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, placing 15th.
References
1999 births
Living people
People from Morrinsville
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers of New Zealand
New Zealand female freestyle skiers
Sportspeople from Waikato
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