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Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox OAM (born 11 June 1994) is a French-born Australian Program and Policy Officer and world and Olympic champion slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.[3]

Jessica Fox
Jessica Fox in 2019
Personal information
NicknameFoxy[1]
NationalityAustralian
Born (1994-06-11) 11 June 1994 (age 29)
Marseille, France
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Websitehttps://www.jessicafox.com.au/
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCanoe slalom
EventK1, C1, Kayak cross
ClubPenrith Valley Canoeing
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 2
World Championships 14 5 3
Youth Olympic Games 1 0 0
U23 World Championships 8 1 4
Junior World Championships 4 0 0
Total 28 7 9
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo C1
2012 London K1
2016 Rio de Janeiro K1
2020 Tokyo K1
World Championships
2013 Prague C1
2013 Prague C1 team
2014 Deep Creek Lake C1
2014 Deep Creek Lake K1
2015 London C1
2015 London C1 team
2017 Pau K1
2018 Rio de Janeiro C1
2018 Rio de Janeiro K1
2019 La Seu d'Urgell C1 team
2021 Bratislava Kayak cross
2022 Augsburg Kayak cross
2023 London K1
2023 London K1 team
2017 Pau C1 team
2019 La Seu d'Urgell C1
2019 La Seu d'Urgell K1
2022 Augsburg C1
2022 Augsburg K1
2010 Tacen C1
2017 Pau K1 team
2023 London C1
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore K1
U23 World Championships
2012 Wausau C1 team
2013 Liptovský Mikuláš C1
2014 Penrith C1
2014 Penrith K1
2015 Foz do Iguaçu K1
2016 Kraków C1
2016 Kraków K1
2017 Bratislava K1
2015 Foz do Iguaçu K1 team
2013 Liptovský Mikuláš C1 team
2014 Penrith K1 team
2016 Kraków C1 team
2017 Bratislava K1 team
Junior World Championships
2010 Foix C1
2010 Foix K1
2012 Wausau C1
2012 Wausau K1
Fox at the 2016 Summer Olympics

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she made her Olympic debut at 18 years of age, winning a silver medal in the K1 event. She won a bronze medal in the same event four years later in Rio de Janeiro, and again at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.[4] She won gold at the 2020 Olympics in the C1 event, becoming the first Olympic champion in that event.

Fox has won 22 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with 14 golds (C1: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018; K1: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2023; C1 team: 2013, 2015, 2019; K1 team: 2023; Kayak cross: 2021, 2022), five silvers (C1: 2019, 2022; K1: 2019, 2022; C1 team: 2017) and three bronzes (C1: 2010, 2023; K1 team: 2017). Her 8 gold medals in individual events make her the most successful paddler, male or female, in World Championship history. She also won a gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in the K1 event.

Fox, an 8-time world champion and Olympic champion, is considered the greatest individual paddler of all time.[5]

Personal life edit

Fox was born on 11 June 1994 in Marseille, France,[6][7][8] later moving to Penrith, New South Wales.[7] Fox's parents are Richard Fox and Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, who both competed as canoeists at the Olympics: her father for Great Britain at the 1992 Games, and her mother at the 1996 Games who won a bronze medal for France.[6][7][9][10] Her father is Second Vice President of the International Canoe Federation[10][11] as well as Australian Canoeing's current high-performance manager,[10] and a five-time world champion.[7][8][9] Fox is Jewish,[12][13][14][15] as is her mother Myriam Jerusalmi;[13][16][17] whereas her father is not Jewish.[18] Her younger sister Noemie Fox is also a slalom canoeist, as was her aunt Rachel Crosbee.

Fox attended Blaxland High School, and finished her HSC year by being first in New South Wales in the PDHPE in 2011 and had an ATAR score of 99.1. She studied in the Elite Athlete Program at The University of Sydney[19] where she is working on a degree in media/communications. She is studying a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) at Swinburne Online. She is bilingual in English and French.[7][8]

Fox suffered a back injury that impacted her performance in 2012.[10] In May 2012, she spoke at the Chullora Public School.[9] She celebrated her 18th birthday on 11 June 2012 in Cardiff while competing at a World Cup event.[6] Fox is also an avid dog lover, regularly posting "dog selfies" to her social media platforms.

Career edit

Fox races in K1 and C1 events and is coached by her mother, Myriam.[10][8][9] She started in the sport in 2005 by canoeing on the Nepean River.[7][8] She has a scholarship and is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport and the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[8] In club competitions, she represents the Penrith Valley Canoe Club.[8]

In September 2009, Fox made her Australian senior national team bid.[8] She competed at the ICF World Ranking in Merano, Italy in 2009 where she finished third in the K1 event.[8] At the 2009 AYOF event in Penrith, New South Wales, she finished first in the women's K1 event.[8]

Fox won placed 5th in the K1 event and won a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2010 World Championships in Tacen.[20] At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won the gold in the girls' K1 slalom event.[7][9] At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Foix, Jessica won gold in K1, also winning the inaugural C1 event at that level. She won her first World Cup by taking out the C1 event at the third round in La Seu d'Urgell. Domestically, Fox won the C1 event and placed 9th in the K1 event at the Oceania Continental Championships in Penrith (counting to World Cup points) and placed 1st and 3rd at the National Championships in Eildon, Victoria, in the C1 and K1 events respectively.[8]

In 2011, Fox won gold medals in the C1 event at World Cups 2 and 3.[8] At the 2011 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, she finished 19th, which gave Australia an automatic spot in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[8] She won silver medals at Australian Open and the Oceania Championships in the women's K1 event in 2011.[8]

In 2012 Fox was selected to represent Australia for the first time at the Olympics in the women's K1 event, where she won the silver medal at the age of 18.[8] Her pre-Olympic schedule included training on the Olympic course in London in April,[9][21] and World Cup competitions in Wales, France and Spain, plus the Junior World Championship in the United States.[9] Her result has been described as competitive revenge against the 44-year-old Czech paddler Štěpánka Hilgertová, who had beaten Fox's mother Myriam to the K1 gold medal sixteen years earlier in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. Her silver medal improved on her mother's bronze from Atlanta 1996 and her father's fourth place in Barcelona 1992, and earned her the nickname "the Silver Fox" from teammates and the press.[21]

She won her first World Championship titles in the C1 event and the C1 team event at the 2013 World Championships in Prague.

At the 2014 World Championships at Deep Creek Lake, USA, Fox became the first athlete to win the C1 and K1 events at the same World Championships, besting Jana Dukátová, who became the first to do it at separate events winning a world championship title in K1 in 2006 and C1 in 2010.

In 2016, Fox won her second Olympic medal, with a bronze in the K1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After winning multiple World Cup races, she won the overall World Cup title in the Kayak Single Slalom (K1) and was second overall in Canoe Single Slalom (C1). She also won the U23 World Championships in K1 and C1 in Kraków, Poland. Additionally, she also won the Oceania Championships Slalom C1 in Penrith, Australia.[22]

In 2017, Fox won the K1 event at the 2017 World Championships, a number of World Cup medals, the Canoeist of the Year award, and the NSW Athlete of the Year award.[23][22] In 2018, Fox was a double ICF Canoe World Champion in C1 and K1, and again won a number of World Cups in both disciplines. Her 2018 season featured an undefeated run in C1 (winning all five World Cups and the World Championships), and three consecutive 'Golden Doubles' at the first three World Cups.[24] In 2019, she won the Oceania Championships in Canoe Slalom again, as well as the World Cup Overall in both events.[22]

She finished third to win the bronze medal in the women's canoe slalom K1 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[25] where she also gained media attention for using a condom to repair her kayak.[26] In Tokyo Jess was also the fastest qualifier for the final of the inaugural C1 canoe slalom event, and went on to win the gold medal, beating silver medalist Mallory Franklin of Great Britain by more than three seconds with a penalty-free run.[27]

At the 2021 World Championships in Bratislava, Fox did not progress to the final of either the K1 or C1 for the first time in her entire career, after incurring 50-second penalties in the semi-finals of both. On the final day of competition she became World Champion in the Kayak cross, an 8th individual world title in a 3rd unique event, in just her third international appearance in the event which will make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.[28]

Fox has won the overall World Cup title six times in the C1 class (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023) and five times in the K1 class (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023). She has finished the year as the World No. 1 in C1 10 times, including an uninterrupted streak from 2013 to 2021, and World No. 1 in K1 6 times. In 2021, Fox was the highest ranked athlete in both events.[29]

Career statistics edit

Major championships results timeline edit

Event 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Olympic Games C1 Not held 1 Not held
K1 Not held 2 Not held 3 Not held 3 Not held
World Championships C1 3[a] 3 8 Not held 1 1 1 Not held 6 1 2 Not held 26 2 3
K1 5 19 Not held 18 1 4 Not held 1 1 2 Not held 25 2 1
Kayak cross Not held Not held 1 1 37
C1 team Not held 1[b] Not held 1 DNS[b] 1 Not held 2 6 1 Not held 5 11
K1 team 11 11 Not held 4 11 7 Not held 3 7 16 Not held 13 1
  1. ^ Exhibition event
  2. ^ a b Not a medal event due to low number of participating nations

World Cup individual podiums edit

      Total
C1 30 8 3 41
K1 16 10 3 29
Kayak cross 1 0 3 4
Total 47 18 9 74
Season Date Venue Position Event
2010 21 February 2010 Penrith 1st C11
27 June 2010 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
2011 2 July 2011 L'Argentière-la-Bessée 1st C1
9 July 2011 Markkleeberg 1st C1
2012 9 June 2012 Cardiff 2nd C1
2013 22 June 2013 Cardiff 2nd C1
29 June 2013 Augsburg 1st C1
6 July 2013 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
17 August 2013 Tacen 1st C1
18 August 2013 Tacen 1st K1
24 August 2013 Bratislava 1st C1
2014 8 June 2014 Lee Valley 3rd K1
14 June 2014 Tacen 1st C1
2 August 2014 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
2015 20 June 2015 Prague 2nd C1
21 June 2015 Prague 2nd K1
27 June 2015 Kraków 1st C1
8 August 2015 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
15 August 2015 Pau 2nd C1
16 August 2015 Pau 2nd K1
2016 4 June 2016 Ivrea 1st C1
5 June 2016 Ivrea 2nd K1
12 June 2016 La Seu d'Urgell 2nd K1
18 June 2016 Pau 2nd C1
3 September 2016 Prague 1st C1
10 September 2016 Tacen 2nd C1
11 September 2016 Tacen 1st K1
2017 24 June 2017 Augsburg 1st C1
1 July 2017 Markkleeberg 1st C1
2 July 2017 Markkleeberg 2nd K1
2 September 2017 Ivrea 1st C1
3 September 2017 Ivrea 2nd K1
9 September 2017 La Seu d'Urgell 2nd C1
10 September 2017 La Seu d'Urgell 2nd K1
2018 23 June 2018 Liptovský Mikuláš 1st K1
24 June 2018 Liptovský Mikuláš 1st C1
30 June 2018 Kraków 1st K1
1 July 2018 Kraków 1st C1
7 July 2018 Augsburg 1st K1
8 July 2018 Augsburg 1st C1
31 August 2018 Tacen 1st C1
1 September 2018 Tacen 2nd K1
9 September 2018 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
2019 15 June 2019 Lee Valley 3rd K1
16 June 2019 Lee Valley 3rd C1
30 June 2019 Tacen 1st C1
31 August 2019 Markkleeberg 2nd K1
1 September 2019 Markkleeberg 3rd C1
7 September 2019 Prague 1st K1
8 September 2019 Prague 1st C1
2021 12 June 2021 Prague 3rd K1
13 June 2021 Prague 1st C1
19 June 2021 Markkleeberg 1st K1
4 September 2021 La Seu d'Urgell 1st K1
5 September 2021 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
11 September 2021 Pau 1st K1
12 September 2021 Pau 2nd C1
12 September 2021 Pau 3rd Kayak cross
2022 11 June 2022 Prague 1st K1
18 June 2022 Kraków 1st K1
25 June 2022 Tacen 1st K1
27 August 2022 Pau 1st K1
28 August 2022 Pau 3rd C1
28 August 2022 Pau 1st Kayak cross
2023 3 June 2023 Augsburg 1st C1
9 June 2023 Prague 1st K1
10 June 2023 Prague 1st C1
17 June 2023 Tacen 1st K1
18 June 2023 Tacen 3rd Kayak cross
1 September 2023 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1
2 September 2023 La Seu d'Urgell 2nd K1
6 October 2023 Vaires-sur-Marne 1st K1
7 October 2023 Vaires-sur-Marne 1st C1
8 October 2023 Vaires-sur-Marne 3rd Kayak cross
1 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points

Complete World Cup results edit

Year Class WC1 WC2 WC3 WC4 WC5 Points Position
2008 K1 Continent  
11
Prague  
 
Tacen  
 
Augsburg  
 
32 70th
2010 K1 Continent  
9
Prague  
31
La Seu  
14
Augsburg  
 
67 25th
C1 1 7 1 156 5th
2011 K1 Tacen  
 
L'Argentière  
7
Markkleeberg  
17
Prague  
 
66 21st
C1 1 1 120 6th
2012 K1 Cardiff  
7
Pau  
8
La Seu  
6
Prague  
 
Bratislava  
 
120 14th
C1 2 55 19th
2013 K1 Cardiff  
5
Augsburg  
12
La Seu  
10
Tacen  
1
Bratislava  
9
205 2nd
C1 2 1 1 1 1 295 1st
2014 K1 Lee Valley  
3
Tacen  
9
Prague  
5
La Seu  
9
Augsburg  
 
166 9th
C1 4 1 8 1 198 4th
2015 K1 Prague  
2
Kraków  
29
Liptovský Mikuláš  
9
La Seu  
5
Pau  
2
252 3rd
C1 2 1 8 1 2 318 1st
2016 K1 Ivrea  
2
La Seu  
2
Pau  
10
Prague  
17
Tacen  
1
290 2nd
C1 1 2 1 2 285 3rd
2017 K1 Prague  
10
Augsburg  
11
Markkleeberg  
2
Ivrea  
2
La Seu  
2
286 2nd
C1 24 1 1 1 2 307 1st
2018 K1 Liptovský Mikuláš  
1
Kraków  
1
Augsburg  
1
Tacen  
2
La Seu  
10
303 1st
C1 1 1 1 1 1 360 1st
2019 K1 Lee Valley  
3
Bratislava  
6
Tacen  
27
Markkleeberg  
2
Prague  
1
278 1st
C1 3 11 1 3 1 312 1st
2021 K1 Prague  
3
Markkleeberg  
1
La Seu  
1
Pau  
1
290 1st
C1 1 4 1 2 276 2nd
Kayak cross 8 3 125 4th
2022 K1 Prague  
1
Kraków  
1
Tacen  
1
Pau  
1
La Seu  
11
304 1st
C1 24 5 12 3 10 210 6th
Kayak cross 10 14 DNS 1 DNS 86 12th
2023 K1 Augsburg  
26
Prague  
1
Tacen  
1
La Seu  
2
Paris  
1
308 1st
C1 1 1 10 1 1 334 1st
Kayak cross DNS 5 3 18 3 194 3rd

Honours edit

Fox was the 2010 Penrith Press Junior Sports Star of the year and NewsLocal Medal winner.[9] She has also served as the ambassador for the Premier's Sporting Challenge.[9] In 2010, she was also named the Cumberland Courier Junior Sport Star, NSWIS Junior Athlete of the Year and the Pierre de Coubertin AOC award.[8] In 2009, 2010 and 2011, she was named the Junior Canoeist of the Year Australian Canoeing.[8] In 2011, she was named the Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year.[8] She earned the AIS Secondary Education award in 2011.[8] She was awarded AIS Sport Performance Awards – Athlete of the Year for 2014.[30] In 2018, she won AIS Sport Performance Award Female Athlete of the Year.

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Fox was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[31]

Television edit

In 2017, Fox appeared as a celebrity contestant on the Australian version of Hell's Kitchen.[32][33] She came 7th overall.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ . Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ^ . Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Jessica FOX (AUS)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Jess Fox wins bronze after drama in K1 final". 7 News. 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Jessica Fox".
  6. ^ a b c "Encouraging signs for young Fox – London 2012 Olympic Games (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g "Jessica Fox: at home in water — Local News — Sport — General". Penrith Star. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "AIS Canoeing – Slalom – Jessica Fox (K1/C1)". Canoe.org.au. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Georgakopoulos, Chris (24 May 2012). "Jessica Fox to press home Olympics advantage – Canoe//Kayak – Sport – Penrith Press". Penrith-press.whereilive.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Jessica Fox paddles into Second World Cup Slalom Final". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  11. ^ . Canoeicf.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  12. ^ "Jewish Aussie 'Flying Fox' wins Olympic silver; Jessica Fox, Australian-Jewish kayaker, wins silver medal in London, 16 years after her mother won bronze in Atlanta". Haaretz. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  13. ^ a b Goldberg, Dan (5 August 2012). "Jewish Australian kayaker Jessica Fox takes silver medal". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  14. ^ "2012 Summer Olympic medalists". Jewish Sports Review. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  15. ^ "Jessica Fox". The Australian Jewish News. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  16. ^ . Letmypeoplegrow.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  17. ^ Goldberg, Dan (5 August 2012). "Jewish Aussie 'Flying Fox' wins Olympic silver – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  18. ^ Bloom, Nate (21 August 2012). "Interfaith Celebrities: Lisa Kudrow; Tavi Gevinson, Oracle of Girl World; Olympic Results and Raisman's Rabbi". InterfaithFamily. Fox's British father, Richard Fox, 52, who is not Jewish, and her French Jewish mother, Myriam Jerusalmi-Fox, 51, were both top kayakers.
  19. ^ "Sydney Uni Olympians take medals at London 2012". The University of Sydney. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  20. ^ . International Canoeing Federation. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  21. ^ a b Martyn Herman (2 August 2012). "Fearless Fox rises from depths to win silver". Reuters. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  22. ^ a b c "Jessica Fox". Red Bull. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  23. ^ "Jessica Fox snares top award". 27 November 2017.
  24. ^ "Fox Begins Pursuit Of Fourth Straight Golden Double". Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  25. ^ "Jess Fox claims Tokyo Olympics bronze medal in women's canoe slalom K1". ABC. 27 July 2021.
  26. ^ "How a condom helped Olympic canoeist Jess Fox repair her kayak". 7 News. 29 July 2021.
  27. ^ "Jess Fox wins Tokyo Olympics gold in C1 canoe slalom". ABC. 29 July 2021.
  28. ^ "Olympic Champions bounce back to best". ICF Media. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  29. ^ "ICF Canoe Slalom World Rankings". Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  30. ^ . Australian Sports Commission News, 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  31. ^ "Australia Day Honours List" (PDF). The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  32. ^ Saw, Amelia (24 March 2017). "The celebrities taking on Marco Pierre White in Hell's Kitchen Australia are named". news.com.au. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  33. ^ Coster, Alice (24 March 2017). "Hell's Kitchen Australia host doesn't know the celebrity contestants". Herald Sun. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

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gold at the 2020 Olympics in the C1 event becoming the first Olympic champion in that event Fox has won 22 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with 14 golds C1 2013 2014 2015 2018 K1 2014 2017 2018 2023 C1 team 2013 2015 2019 K1 team 2023 Kayak cross 2021 2022 five silvers C1 2019 2022 K1 2019 2022 C1 team 2017 and three bronzes C1 2010 2023 K1 team 2017 Her 8 gold medals in individual events make her the most successful paddler male or female in World Championship history She also won a gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in the K1 event Fox an 8 time world champion and Olympic champion is considered the greatest individual paddler of all time 5 Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Career statistics 3 1 Major championships results timeline 3 2 World Cup individual podiums 3 3 Complete World Cup results 4 Honours 5 Television 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksPersonal life editFox was born on 11 June 1994 in Marseille France 6 7 8 later moving to Penrith New South Wales 7 Fox s parents are Richard Fox and Myriam Fox Jerusalmi who both competed as canoeists at the Olympics her father for Great Britain at the 1992 Games and her mother at the 1996 Games who won a bronze medal for France 6 7 9 10 Her father is Second Vice President of the International Canoe Federation 10 11 as well as Australian Canoeing s current high performance manager 10 and a five time world champion 7 8 9 Fox is Jewish 12 13 14 15 as is her mother Myriam Jerusalmi 13 16 17 whereas her father is not Jewish 18 Her younger sister Noemie Fox is also a slalom canoeist as was her aunt Rachel Crosbee Fox attended Blaxland High School and finished her HSC year by being first in New South Wales in the PDHPE in 2011 and had an ATAR score of 99 1 She studied in the Elite Athlete Program at The University of Sydney 19 where she is working on a degree in media communications She is studying a Bachelor of Social Science Psychology at Swinburne Online She is bilingual in English and French 7 8 Fox suffered a back injury that impacted her performance in 2012 10 In May 2012 she spoke at the Chullora Public School 9 She celebrated her 18th birthday on 11 June 2012 in Cardiff while competing at a World Cup event 6 Fox is also an avid dog lover regularly posting dog selfies to her social media platforms Career editFox races in K1 and C1 events and is coached by her mother Myriam 10 8 9 She started in the sport in 2005 by canoeing on the Nepean River 7 8 She has a scholarship and is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport and the New South Wales Institute of Sport 8 In club competitions she represents the Penrith Valley Canoe Club 8 In September 2009 Fox made her Australian senior national team bid 8 She competed at the ICF World Ranking in Merano Italy in 2009 where she finished third in the K1 event 8 At the 2009 AYOF event in Penrith New South Wales she finished first in the women s K1 event 8 Fox won placed 5th in the K1 event and won a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2010 World Championships in Tacen 20 At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore she won the gold in the girls K1 slalom event 7 9 At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Foix Jessica won gold in K1 also winning the inaugural C1 event at that level She won her first World Cup by taking out the C1 event at the third round in La Seu d Urgell Domestically Fox won the C1 event and placed 9th in the K1 event at the Oceania Continental Championships in Penrith counting to World Cup points and placed 1st and 3rd at the National Championships in Eildon Victoria in the C1 and K1 events respectively 8 In 2011 Fox won gold medals in the C1 event at World Cups 2 and 3 8 At the 2011 World Championships in Bratislava Slovakia she finished 19th which gave Australia an automatic spot in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympics 8 She won silver medals at Australian Open and the Oceania Championships in the women s K1 event in 2011 8 In 2012 Fox was selected to represent Australia for the first time at the Olympics in the women s K1 event where she won the silver medal at the age of 18 8 Her pre Olympic schedule included training on the Olympic course in London in April 9 21 and World Cup competitions in Wales France and Spain plus the Junior World Championship in the United States 9 Her result has been described as competitive revenge against the 44 year old Czech paddler Stepanka Hilgertova who had beaten Fox s mother Myriam to the K1 gold medal sixteen years earlier in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics Her silver medal improved on her mother s bronze from Atlanta 1996 and her father s fourth place in Barcelona 1992 and earned her the nickname the Silver Fox from teammates and the press 21 She won her first World Championship titles in the C1 event and the C1 team event at the 2013 World Championships in Prague At the 2014 World Championships at Deep Creek Lake USA Fox became the first athlete to win the C1 and K1 events at the same World Championships besting Jana Dukatova who became the first to do it at separate events winning a world championship title in K1 in 2006 and C1 in 2010 In 2016 Fox won her second Olympic medal with a bronze in the K1 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil After winning multiple World Cup races she won the overall World Cup title in the Kayak Single Slalom K1 and was second overall in Canoe Single Slalom C1 She also won the U23 World Championships in K1 and C1 in Krakow Poland Additionally she also won the Oceania Championships Slalom C1 in Penrith Australia 22 In 2017 Fox won the K1 event at the 2017 World Championships a number of World Cup medals the Canoeist of the Year award and the NSW Athlete of the Year award 23 22 In 2018 Fox was a double ICF Canoe World Champion in C1 and K1 and again won a number of World Cups in both disciplines Her 2018 season featured an undefeated run in C1 winning all five World Cups and the World Championships and three consecutive Golden Doubles at the first three World Cups 24 In 2019 she won the Oceania Championships in Canoe Slalom again as well as the World Cup Overall in both events 22 She finished third to win the bronze medal in the women s canoe slalom K1 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics 25 where she also gained media attention for using a condom to repair her kayak 26 In Tokyo Jess was also the fastest qualifier for the final of the inaugural C1 canoe slalom event and went on to win the gold medal beating silver medalist Mallory Franklin of Great Britain by more than three seconds with a penalty free run 27 At the 2021 World Championships in Bratislava Fox did not progress to the final of either the K1 or C1 for the first time in her entire career after incurring 50 second penalties in the semi finals of both On the final day of competition she became World Champion in the Kayak cross an 8th individual world title in a 3rd unique event in just her third international appearance in the event which will make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024 28 Fox has won the overall World Cup title six times in the C1 class 2013 2015 2017 2018 2019 2023 and five times in the K1 class 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 She has finished the year as the World No 1 in C1 10 times including an uninterrupted streak from 2013 to 2021 and World No 1 in K1 6 times In 2021 Fox was the highest ranked athlete in both events 29 Career statistics editMajor championships results timeline edit Event 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Olympic Games C1 Not held 1 Not held K1 Not held 2 Not held 3 Not held 3 Not held World Championships C1 3 a 3 8 Not held 1 1 1 Not held 6 1 2 Not held 26 2 3 K1 5 19 Not held 18 1 4 Not held 1 1 2 Not held 25 2 1 Kayak cross Not held Not held 1 1 37 C1 team Not held 1 b Not held 1 DNS b 1 Not held 2 6 1 Not held 5 11 K1 team 11 11 Not held 4 11 7 Not held 3 7 16 Not held 13 1 Exhibition event a b Not a medal event due to low number of participating nations World Cup individual podiums edit nbsp nbsp nbsp Total C1 30 8 3 41 K1 16 10 3 29 Kayak cross 1 0 3 4 Total 47 18 9 74 Season Date Venue Position Event 2010 21 February 2010 Penrith 1st C11 27 June 2010 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 2011 2 July 2011 L Argentiere la Bessee 1st C1 9 July 2011 Markkleeberg 1st C1 2012 9 June 2012 Cardiff 2nd C1 2013 22 June 2013 Cardiff 2nd C1 29 June 2013 Augsburg 1st C1 6 July 2013 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 17 August 2013 Tacen 1st C1 18 August 2013 Tacen 1st K1 24 August 2013 Bratislava 1st C1 2014 8 June 2014 Lee Valley 3rd K1 14 June 2014 Tacen 1st C1 2 August 2014 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 2015 20 June 2015 Prague 2nd C1 21 June 2015 Prague 2nd K1 27 June 2015 Krakow 1st C1 8 August 2015 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 15 August 2015 Pau 2nd C1 16 August 2015 Pau 2nd K1 2016 4 June 2016 Ivrea 1st C1 5 June 2016 Ivrea 2nd K1 12 June 2016 La Seu d Urgell 2nd K1 18 June 2016 Pau 2nd C1 3 September 2016 Prague 1st C1 10 September 2016 Tacen 2nd C1 11 September 2016 Tacen 1st K1 2017 24 June 2017 Augsburg 1st C1 1 July 2017 Markkleeberg 1st C1 2 July 2017 Markkleeberg 2nd K1 2 September 2017 Ivrea 1st C1 3 September 2017 Ivrea 2nd K1 9 September 2017 La Seu d Urgell 2nd C1 10 September 2017 La Seu d Urgell 2nd K1 2018 23 June 2018 Liptovsky Mikulas 1st K1 24 June 2018 Liptovsky Mikulas 1st C1 30 June 2018 Krakow 1st K1 1 July 2018 Krakow 1st C1 7 July 2018 Augsburg 1st K1 8 July 2018 Augsburg 1st C1 31 August 2018 Tacen 1st C1 1 September 2018 Tacen 2nd K1 9 September 2018 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 2019 15 June 2019 Lee Valley 3rd K1 16 June 2019 Lee Valley 3rd C1 30 June 2019 Tacen 1st C1 31 August 2019 Markkleeberg 2nd K1 1 September 2019 Markkleeberg 3rd C1 7 September 2019 Prague 1st K1 8 September 2019 Prague 1st C1 2021 12 June 2021 Prague 3rd K1 13 June 2021 Prague 1st C1 19 June 2021 Markkleeberg 1st K1 4 September 2021 La Seu d Urgell 1st K1 5 September 2021 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 11 September 2021 Pau 1st K1 12 September 2021 Pau 2nd C1 12 September 2021 Pau 3rd Kayak cross 2022 11 June 2022 Prague 1st K1 18 June 2022 Krakow 1st K1 25 June 2022 Tacen 1st K1 27 August 2022 Pau 1st K1 28 August 2022 Pau 3rd C1 28 August 2022 Pau 1st Kayak cross 2023 3 June 2023 Augsburg 1st C1 9 June 2023 Prague 1st K1 10 June 2023 Prague 1st C1 17 June 2023 Tacen 1st K1 18 June 2023 Tacen 3rd Kayak cross 1 September 2023 La Seu d Urgell 1st C1 2 September 2023 La Seu d Urgell 2nd K1 6 October 2023 Vaires sur Marne 1st K1 7 October 2023 Vaires sur Marne 1st C1 8 October 2023 Vaires sur Marne 3rd Kayak cross 1 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points Complete World Cup results edit Year Class WC1 WC2 WC3 WC4 WC5 Points Position 2008 K1 Continent nbsp 11 Prague nbsp Tacen nbsp Augsburg nbsp 32 70th 2010 K1 Continent nbsp 9 Prague nbsp 31 La Seu nbsp 14 Augsburg nbsp 67 25th C1 1 7 1 156 5th 2011 K1 Tacen nbsp L Argentiere nbsp 7 Markkleeberg nbsp 17 Prague nbsp 66 21st C1 1 1 120 6th 2012 K1 Cardiff nbsp 7 Pau nbsp 8 La Seu nbsp 6 Prague nbsp Bratislava nbsp 120 14th C1 2 55 19th 2013 K1 Cardiff nbsp 5 Augsburg nbsp 12 La Seu nbsp 10 Tacen nbsp 1 Bratislava nbsp 9 205 2nd C1 2 1 1 1 1 295 1st 2014 K1 Lee Valley nbsp 3 Tacen nbsp 9 Prague nbsp 5 La Seu nbsp 9 Augsburg nbsp 166 9th C1 4 1 8 1 198 4th 2015 K1 Prague nbsp 2 Krakow nbsp 29 Liptovsky Mikulas nbsp 9 La Seu nbsp 5 Pau nbsp 2 252 3rd C1 2 1 8 1 2 318 1st 2016 K1 Ivrea nbsp 2 La Seu nbsp 2 Pau nbsp 10 Prague nbsp 17 Tacen nbsp 1 290 2nd C1 1 2 1 2 285 3rd 2017 K1 Prague nbsp 10 Augsburg nbsp 11 Markkleeberg nbsp 2 Ivrea nbsp 2 La Seu nbsp 2 286 2nd C1 24 1 1 1 2 307 1st 2018 K1 Liptovsky Mikulas nbsp 1 Krakow nbsp 1 Augsburg nbsp 1 Tacen nbsp 2 La Seu nbsp 10 303 1st C1 1 1 1 1 1 360 1st 2019 K1 Lee Valley nbsp 3 Bratislava nbsp 6 Tacen nbsp 27 Markkleeberg nbsp 2 Prague nbsp 1 278 1st C1 3 11 1 3 1 312 1st 2021 K1 Prague nbsp 3 Markkleeberg nbsp 1 La Seu nbsp 1 Pau nbsp 1 290 1st C1 1 4 1 2 276 2nd Kayak cross 8 3 125 4th 2022 K1 Prague nbsp 1 Krakow nbsp 1 Tacen nbsp 1 Pau nbsp 1 La Seu nbsp 11 304 1st C1 24 5 12 3 10 210 6th Kayak cross 10 14 DNS 1 DNS 86 12th 2023 K1 Augsburg nbsp 26 Prague nbsp 1 Tacen nbsp 1 La Seu nbsp 2 Paris nbsp 1 308 1st C1 1 1 10 1 1 334 1st Kayak cross DNS 5 3 18 3 194 3rdHonours editFox was the 2010 Penrith Press Junior Sports Star of the year and NewsLocal Medal winner 9 She has also served as the ambassador for the Premier s Sporting Challenge 9 In 2010 she was also named the Cumberland Courier Junior Sport Star NSWIS Junior Athlete of the Year and the Pierre de Coubertin AOC award 8 In 2009 2010 and 2011 she was named the Junior Canoeist of the Year Australian Canoeing 8 In 2011 she was named the Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year 8 She earned the AIS Secondary Education award in 2011 8 She was awarded AIS Sport Performance Awards Athlete of the Year for 2014 30 In 2018 she won AIS Sport Performance Award Female Athlete of the Year In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Fox was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 31 Television editIn 2017 Fox appeared as a celebrity contestant on the Australian version of Hell s Kitchen 32 33 She came 7th overall See also editList of select Jewish canoeists List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medalsReferences edit Olympic profile Archived from the original on 30 July 2021 Retrieved 30 July 2021 Jess Fox Sports Reference com Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 Retrieved 27 January 2018 Jessica FOX AUS CanoeSlalom net Retrieved 30 September 2017 Jess Fox wins bronze after drama in K1 final 7 News 27 July 2021 Jessica Fox a b c Encouraging signs for young Fox London 2012 Olympic Games Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation 11 June 2012 Retrieved 20 June 2012 a b c d e f g Jessica Fox at home in water Local News Sport General Penrith Star 30 May 2012 Retrieved 20 June 2012 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s AIS Canoeing Slalom Jessica Fox K1 C1 Canoe org au Retrieved 20 June 2012 a b c d e f g h i Georgakopoulos Chris 24 May 2012 Jessica Fox to press home Olympics advantage Canoe Kayak Sport Penrith Press Penrith press whereilive com au Retrieved 20 June 2012 a b c d e Jessica Fox paddles into Second World Cup Slalom Final Herald Sun Retrieved 20 June 2012 ICF Board of Directors Canoeicf com Archived from the original on 29 June 2015 Retrieved 20 June 2012 Jewish Aussie Flying Fox wins Olympic silver Jessica Fox Australian Jewish kayaker wins silver medal in London 16 years after her mother won bronze in Atlanta Haaretz Retrieved 7 April 2014 a b Goldberg Dan 5 August 2012 Jewish Australian kayaker Jessica Fox takes silver medal Jewish Telegraphic Agency Retrieved 7 April 2014 2012 Summer Olympic medalists Jewish Sports Review Retrieved 7 April 2014 Jessica Fox The Australian Jewish News Retrieved 7 April 2014 Jews in the News Andy Samberg Seth Rogen and Henry Winkler Letmypeoplegrow org Archived from the original on 23 October 2012 Retrieved 21 September 2012 Goldberg Dan 5 August 2012 Jewish Aussie Flying Fox wins Olympic silver Israel News Haaretz Daily Newspaper Haaretz Retrieved 21 September 2012 Bloom Nate 21 August 2012 Interfaith Celebrities Lisa Kudrow Tavi Gevinson Oracle of Girl World Olympic Results and Raisman s Rabbi InterfaithFamily Fox s British father Richard Fox 52 who is not Jewish and her French Jewish mother Myriam Jerusalmi Fox 51 were both top kayakers Sydney Uni Olympians take medals at London 2012 The University of Sydney 3 August 2012 Retrieved 14 August 2012 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships SLOKA 2010 International Canoeing Federation Archived from the original on 12 March 2012 Retrieved 20 June 2012 a b Martyn Herman 2 August 2012 Fearless Fox rises from depths to win silver Reuters Retrieved 2 August 2012 a b c Jessica Fox Red Bull Retrieved 7 May 2019 Jessica Fox snares top award 27 November 2017 Fox Begins Pursuit Of Fourth Straight Golden Double Retrieved 14 September 2021 Jess Fox claims Tokyo Olympics bronze medal in women s canoe slalom K1 ABC 27 July 2021 How a condom helped Olympic canoeist Jess Fox repair her kayak 7 News 29 July 2021 Jess Fox wins Tokyo Olympics gold in C1 canoe slalom ABC 29 July 2021 Olympic Champions bounce back to best ICF Media Retrieved 29 September 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Rankings Retrieved 17 September 2021 Rabbitohs Fearnley Fox win top ASPAS Australian Sports Commission News 11 February 2015 Archived from the original on 11 February 2015 Retrieved 11 February 2015 Australia Day Honours List PDF The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia 26 January 2022 Retrieved 25 January 2022 Saw Amelia 24 March 2017 The celebrities taking on Marco Pierre White in Hell s Kitchen Australia are named news com au Retrieved 24 March 2017 Coster Alice 24 March 2017 Hell s Kitchen Australia host doesn t know the celebrity contestants Herald Sun Retrieved 24 March 2017 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jessica Fox canoeist Jessica Fox at the International Canoe Federation nbsp 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