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10 Facts About Jacqui Cooper

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Jacqueline Cooper was born on 6 January 1973 and is an Australian motivational speaker and retired freestyle skier.

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Jacqui Cooper started skiing aerials at age 16 and was on the Australian team for 20 years.

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Jacqui Cooper finished in sixteenth place at the 1994 Winter Olympics and crashed out of the qualification round at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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Jacqui Cooper made her comeback at the 2004 Mount Buller World Aerials, two and a half years after her Salt Lake accident.

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Jacqui Cooper won the silver behind fellow Australian Lydia Lassila.

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At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacqui Cooper entered the final as the favourite, having recorded a world record 213.56 in the qualification round, but she crashed on both jumps.

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Jacqui Cooper won 24 World Cup gold medals, claiming her fifth World Cup title in Inawashiro, Japan.

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Jacqui Cooper was selected for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first Australian woman to make five Olympic teams, summer or winter.

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In 2023, Jacqui Cooper was a contestant on the Australian reality television show The Summit and was eliminated in the third episode by Brooke Kilowsky.

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Jacqui Cooper is a volunteer ambassador for Coeliac Victoria and Tasmania.