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LAURA PEEL

Sport: Aerial Skiing
Nickname:
The Real Deal Peel
DOB: 29/9/1989
Place of Birth:
Canberra, ACT
Place of Residence: Canberra, ACT

OWIA Athlete Performance Contract Commenced: 2010
Institute/Academy: VIS

​Personal Best Results: 
  • Olympic Winter Games - 5th, PyeongChang, KOR, 2018
  • World Championships - 1st, Kreischberg, AUT, 2015
  • World Cup - 1st, Kreischberg, AUT, 2013.
Note: current as @ 14/02/2023

Olympic Winter Games Attended
  • 2014 - Sochi, Russia
  • 2018 - PyeongChang, Korea
  • 2022 - Beijing, China

BIOGRAPHY

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Laura Peel came to her sport as a strong skier and gymnast, thus providing an ideal base for Aerial Skiing when she began international competition in 2009.

By 2011 entered the World Cup season for the first time making the final 12 at her second event and backed up increasingly strong results with 11th place at the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley.

In 2012, Peel became the fifth Australian female to win an Aerial Skiing World Cup, claiming victory in Kreischberg, Austria. She continued her success in the 2013 season adding a further two world cup medals.

By now a strong contender at any event, Peel competed at her first Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, finishing in seventh place.

In 2015, Peel became the fourth Australian Aerial Skier to win a World Championship, taking gold in Kreischberg, Austria. She was also jointly awarded as the Ski & Snowboard Australia Athlete of the Year with Scotty James (Snowboard Halfpipe).  

After missing the next season because of injury, Peel returned in great shape for 2016/17, immediately making the top 12 once again and continued to strengthen each event.

At the final World Cup in Moscow, Russia in early 2017 she returned to the podium with a bronze before competing in the World Championships where she placed 8th.

In 2018, Peel hit form at the perfect time ahead of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games securing back-to-back bronze medals at the Lake Placid World Cup just weeks out from her second Olympic appearance. In PyeongChang Peel was the highest placed Australian Aerial Skier, just missing the podium in fifth place.

Peel won her second World Cup event of her career in 2018-2019, after finishing on top in Shimao Lotus Mountain, China. With China the final stop in the World Cup season, Peel finished a personal best third in the world on the standings, improving on her previous best of fourth achieved in 2012 and 2013.

The 2019-2020 World Cup season was a huge success for Peel, jumping triple back somersaults in competition for the first time, taking home four World Cup medals including two victories and also won the coveted FIS World Cup Crystal Globe, as the number one ranked aerial skier in the world.

For the second time in his career, Peel was named winner of the Olympic Athlete of the Year title for the 2020 Snow Australia Awards, sharing the award along with halfpipe snowboarder Scotty James.

The 2020-2021 was another extraordinary season for Peel, who won the second World Championship gold medal of her career in Almaty, Kazakhstan, becoming Australia’s first aerial skiing double World Champion.

Leading the way as the only female to be consistency Jumping the highest degree of difficulty with her spectacular triple back somersaults, Peel again dominated the World Cup season claiming her second consecutive World Cup Crystal Globe Title. Peel recorded four World Cup podiums including two victories over the season.

Ahead of her her third Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, Peel was full of confidence after scoring an amazing 118.05 points at the final World Cup Olympic Qualification Event in Deer Valley with her full-full-full, triple twisting triple back somersault, to record the seventh World Cup victory of her career and winning by almost 35 points. Peel’s score was so impressive, it would have put her on the podium in the men’s event.

At the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, Peel made a great start to the event qualifying for finals in first place.

In finals performing her spectacular triple somersault jumps in difficult conditions with variable speed, Peel finished fifth in the big final after having trouble landing her final jump. The result equals her performance in 2018 in Pyeongchang four years earlier.

In the 2022/2023 season, Peel recorded the eighth World Cup victory of her career in the World Cup event in Le Relais, Canada,

The VIS double World Champion was again the only female competitor to jump spectacular triple back somersaults at the Le Relais event, scoring a huge 109.15 points with her lay-full-full, double twisting triple somersault.

Peel will be competing in her seventh World Championship in 2023 in Bakuriani, Georgia.

Q & A

Proudest moment: Winning gold at the 2015 World Championships

I began my sport in  2009 because I wasn’t finished with flipping (post gymnastics) and was looking for new challenges and opportunities

When I am not training or competing I am:  Studying a bachelor of Health Science (Food and Nutrition), practicing yoga, or spending time with friends and family

I enjoy my sport because it’s fun!! And, everyday is an opportunity to keep pushing my comfort zone

Education: Currently studying a bachelor of Health Science (Food and Nutrition) at Charles Sturt University

Favourite international competition: I’ve competed in Austria twice, and both times I have walked away with a Gold medal, so I think that has to be a favourite!

Favourite Food: Guacamole and chips!

Favourite other sport to watch or play: I love ten pin bowling and playing ultimate Frisbee. I enjoy watching all acrobatic sports

My Hero is ….. I am inspired by many sporting and nonsporting humans!
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