Anna Willcox-Silfverberg (born 9 April 1992) is a New Zealand and Swedish

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 ...

and reporter for TV Show

The Crowd Goes Wild ''The Crowd Goes Wild'' is a sports entertainment show broadcast on New Zealand nationwide television channel Sky Open. The show premiered on Monday 26 June 2006. Created by former ''SportsCafe'' host and veteran journalist Ric Salizzo (who h ...

. Born in

Takapuna Takapuna is a suburb located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is situated at the beginning of a south-east-facing peninsula forming the northern side of the Waitematā Harbour. While very small in terms of population, it ...

North Shore City North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

, New Zealand, she competed for

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at the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

. She finished 15th in qualification of the women's slopestyle event, missing the final by only two places. Her father,

Hamish Willcox Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name '' Seamus'' or ''Sheumais''. It is therefore, the equivalent of James. People Given name * Hamish Bennett, retired New Zealand cricke ...

, was a professional sailor who competed in the

America's Cup The America's Cup, informally known as the Auld Mug, is a trophy awarded in the sport of sailing. It is the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one f ...

and her brother,

Daniel Willcox Daniel "Dan" Willcox (born 8 June 1990) is a New Zealand sailor. Willcox was born in 1990 in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore. His father, Hamish Willcox, was a professional sailor who competed in the America's Cup and his sister, Anna Will ...

, represented

New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics New Zealand competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twenty-third appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and com ...

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

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1992 births Living people New Zealand female freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Auckland Olympic freestyle skiers for New Zealand New Zealand people of Swedish descent People from Takapuna {{NewZealand-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub