Prior to the Olympics, Cockney had a successful Junior career, winning three gold medals at the 2011 Canada Winter Games (15 km classic, free sprint, and 4x5km relay).
Personal life Jesse Cockney began skiing at the early age of three years old, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
[4] In Cockney's spare time away from his competitive athletic career, he enjoys to cook, climb, travel, watch and play American football, and fish.
[9] In 2011 at the Canada Winter Games held in Halifax, Cockney powered his way to the top, winning three gold medals in the 4x5km relay, sprint free, and 15 km classic.
Cockney's achievements in the FIS Nordic Ski Championships included a twelfth-place finish in the 4x10km relay, fifteenth in the sprint free, and forty-eighth in the 15 km classic in 2011.
His most recent competition was held at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, where he competed in the men's cross country skiing sprint classic, placing 35th overall.