Ellie Soutter won a bronze medal representing Great Britain at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in the snowboard cross.
11 Facts About Ellie Soutter
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Ellie Soutter attended local schools until 2015, at which point she was home-schooled for two years.
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Ellie Soutter was a member of the inaugural British Europa Cup snowboard cross programme, and specialised in the freestyle, freeride and snowboard cross events.
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Ellie Soutter began competing in international events in the 2016 snowboarding season, coached by French Olympic snowboarder Deborah Anthonioz.
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Ellie Soutter won Great Britain's only medal at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, a bronze in the snowboard cross, and was the team's flagbearer at the closing ceremony.
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Ellie Soutter had been selected to represent Great Britain at the Junior Snowboard World Championships in New Zealand in August 2018.
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Ellie Soutter was in a relationship with French snowboarder Oscar Mandin.
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Ellie Soutter died by suicide, near her French home on her 18th birthday, on 25 July 2018.
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Ellie Soutter said "mental health awareness needs to be really looked at and made more public".
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Several years later, her father would be more explicit, telling that Ellie Soutter suffered 7 major concussions between 2013 and 2018 and that every time she had another one, they got worse, and they took longer to recover from.
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The Ellie Soutter family set up a fundraiser in her name to help poor young winter sports athletes.