Meredith Anne Gardner (born June 29, 1961) is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

retired

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 competed in

ski ballet Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980 ...

mogul skiing Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle Wor ...

, and

aerial skiing Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill. Aerialists ...

. Gardner competed as a member of the Canadian Women's Freestyle Team from 1981 to 1988, winning the 1985 and 1988 World Championship in aerial skiing. Gardner was inducted into the

Canadian Ski Hall of Fame The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (french: Le Temple de la renommée du ski canadien) was created by the Canadian Ski Museum in 1982 to honour skiing pioneers, competitors, coach (sports), coaches, officials, and builders. List of inductees Denotes d ...

in 1995.

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