Brita Sigourney (born January 17, 1990) is an American

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 ...

Career

She attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and later went on to attend the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

, where she played water polo. She trained in her career as a freestyle skier in

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. She won a silver medal in the superpipe at

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in 2011, followed by a bronze in 2012. She has competed in both the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 6th in 2014. She won a bronze medal in the 2018 Olympics on February 19, 2018, with a score of 91.6, which she achieved on her third run. Until her third run, the judges expressed to an NBC broadcaster their approval of her form and amplitude but that she needed improvement with her creativity. She was good friends with her competitor Annalisa Drew and regretted bumping her off the podium. She won another bronze at the 2019 FIS World Championship in halfpipe.

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* * * * Living people American female freestyle skiers 1990 births Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers of the United States University of California, Davis alumni X Games athletes People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in freestyle skiing Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Monterey, California 21st-century American women {{US-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub