Kaya Turski

She is an eight-time Winter X Games champion in Women's Ski slope style.

One week after she won the gold medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, ahead of Keri Herman and Grete Eliassen,[2] she captured the silver medal at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships,[3] behind Anna Segal of Australia.

[4] Involved in aggressive inline skating in her early teen years, Turski had limited experience in skiing when she moved to Whistler from Montreal to train in the sport, aged 17.

[5] Her grandmother was a Polish skier who moved to Canada with her two sons after World War II.

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