French-born Australian world and Olympic champion slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008. Fox, a 7 time world champion and Olympic champion, is considered the greatest individual paddler of all time.
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. She won gold at the 2020 Olympics in the C1 event, becoming the first Olympic champion in that event.
Fox has won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with ten golds (C1: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018; K1: 2014, 2017, 2018; C1 team: 2013, 2015, 2019), three silvers (C1: 2019, K1: 2019, C1 team: 2017) and two bronzes (C1: 2010, K1 team: 2017). Her 7 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’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. Her father is Second Vice President of the International Canoe Federation as well as Australian Canoeing’s current high-performance manager, and a five-time world champion. Fox is Jewish, as is her mother Myriam Jerusalmi, while her father is not Jewish. Her younger sister Noemie is also a slalom canoeist, as was her aunt Rachel Crosbee.
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