Anna Segal (’04) created her share of history at her debut at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The 27-year-old was Australia’s sole female representative in Ski Slopestyle which was on the Olympic program for the first time in 2014. The Victorian then went on to finish fourth and record Australia’s first fourth place finish in Winter Olympic history.

Anna was first introduced to skiing by her parents at age four. She began competing at an international level in 2003, when she was in Year 11 at St Catherine’s. At this point her discipline and focus was directed towards Mogul Skiing. In 2005 she decided to switch her focus to the new and quickly growing area of Free-Skiing – the disciplines of Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Big Air Skiing. None of these were Olympic sports until the 2011 announcement was made that they would be included as official events at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Anna chose to focus on representing Australia, deferring her studies as she poured her heart and soul into representing Australia in Sochi.

Anna won the gold medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships and also won the gold medal for the inaugural Women’s Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 Aspen, Colorado. Her first major win in Slopestyle was in 2007 at the Women’s US Free-Skiing Open at Copper Mountain, USA. Other awards include: NSWIS (New South Wales Institute of Sport) Scholarship holder; Europa Cup gold, Mogul Skiing; VIS (Victorian Institute of Sport) scholarship holder and Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) Individual scholarship holder.

Since 2009, Anna has been a Chicks with Stix coach. She also returned to study and graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Arts from Monash University. Other than skiing the world, Anna enjoys surfing, hiking, yoga, cooking and finding ways to reduce her impact on the environment.

Updated January 2016