Jennifer Heil
Freestyle skier, Olympic athlete
1983 –
Who is Jennifer Heil?
Jennifer Heil is a Canadian freestyle skier from Spruce Grove, Alberta. Heil started skiing at age two. Jennifer Heil won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics games in Turin, Italy and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, which was also Canada's first medal in those games. Heil is the reigning world champion in dual moguls. She has three world championship titles in total and two silver medals from the Worlds as well. Over her career, Heil has won a record-tying five overall FIS World Cup Crystal Globe titles for freestyle skiing.
Heil is involved with several charitable organisations including Because I am a Girl and Right to Play. During the 2010 Winter Olympics, Heil donated $25,000 to Because I am a Girl. Heil also speaks to students across Canada along a theme of Dare to Dream, and hosts an annual "girls only" mogul skiing camp. B2ten, created with the help of Heil, is a privately run business model organisation with the intent of raising funds to support amateur Canadian athletes.
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- Born
- Apr 11, 1983
Spruce Grove - Also known as
- Jenn
- Ethnicity
- Canadian
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
- Desautels Faculty of Management
- Lived in
- Edmonton
- Montreal
- Spruce Grove
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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