Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox (born 11 June 1994) is a French-born, Australian world champion slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.[2]

Jessica Fox
Jessica Fox during the 2019 Canoe Slalom World Championships.
Personal information
NationalityAustralia
Born (1994-06-11) 11 June 1994
Marseille, France
Height166 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCanoe slalom
Event(s)C1, K1
ClubPenrith Valley Canoeing
Fox at the 2016 Summer Olympics

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she made her Olympic debut winning a silver medal in the K1 event. She won a bronze medal in the same event four years later in Rio de Janeiro.

Fox 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.

Personal life

Fox is Jewish,[3][4][5][6] and was born on 11 June 1994 in Marseille, France.[7][8][9] She currently lives in Penrith, New South Wales.[8] Fox's parents are Richard and Myriam, 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.[7][8][10][11] Her father is Second Vice President of the International Canoe Federation[11][12] as well as Australian Canoeing's current high-performance manager,[11] and a five-time world champion.[8][9][10] Her mother Myriam Jerusalmi is Jewish;[4][13][14] while her father is a gentile.[15] Her younger sister Noemie 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 is currently studying in the Elite Athlete Program at The University of Sydney[16] 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.[8][9]

Fox suffered a back injury that impacted her performance in 2012.[11] In May 2012, she spoke at the Chullora Public School.[10] She celebrated her 18th birthday on 11 June 2012 in Cardiff while competing at a World Cup event.[7] Fox is also an avid dog lover, regularly posting "dog selfies" to her social media platforms. Fox has featured all types of breeds, ranging from Jack Russels to Labradoodles. Fox's most popular #dogselfie was with a Swiss Shepherd named Hendrix.[17]

Career

Fox races in K1 and C1 events.[11] Her coach is her mother.[9][10] She started in the sport in 2005 by canoeing on the Nepean River.[8][9] She has a scholarship and is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport and the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[9] In club competitions, she represents the Penrith Valley Canoe Club.[9]

In September 2009, Fox made her Australian senior national team bid.[9] She competed at the ICF World Ranking in Merano, Italy in 2009 where she finished third in the K1 event.[9] At the 2009 AYOF event in Penrith, New South Wales, she finished first in the women's K1 event.[9]

Fox won a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen.[18] At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won the gold in the girls' K1 slalom event.[8][10] In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's C1 event at the ICF Slalom World Cup in Seu, Spain. In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's K1 event at the Junior World Championships in Foix, France. In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's C1 event at the Junior World Championships in Foix, France. In 2010, she finished 3rd in the women's C1 event at the World Championships in Sloka, Slovakia. In 2010, she finished 5th in the women's K1 event at the World Championships in Sloka, Slovakia. In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's K1 event at the Oceania Open in Penrith, New South Wales. In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's C1 event at the Oceania Open in Penrith, New South Wales. In 2010, she finished 1st in the women's C1 event at the National Championships in Eildon, Victoria. In 2010, she finished 3rd in the women's K1 event at the National Championships in Eildon, Victoria.[9]

In 2011, Fox won gold medals in the C1 women's event at World Cups 2 and 3.[9] At the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, she finished 19th, which gave Australia an automatic spot in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[9] She won silver medals at Australian Open and the Oceania Championships in the women's K1 event in 2011.[9]

Fox earned a spot in the women's K1 event representing Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in what was her Olympic debut, in which she won the silver medal.[9] In April 2012, she trained on the Olympic course in London.[10] She left Australia for overseas in advance of the 2012 Summer Olympics in May 2012. Her pre-Olympic schedule included World Cup competitions in Wales, France and Spain, and the Junior World Championship in the United States.[10] In June 2012, she finished seventh in a World Cup race in Cardiff.[11] She was the only Australian to make the finals, with her Australian teammates having been knocked out earlier.[7] She finished in the top three in the women's C1 event.[19] In the London Summer Olympics Fox won the silver medal in the K1 event.[20] In the K1 Slalom event at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Fox, at the age of 18, gained competitive revenge against the 44-year-old Czech paddler Štěpánka Hilgertová, who had beaten her mother Myriam to the K1 gold medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, sixteen years earlier. Fox's second in the final of the K1, improved on her mother's bronze from Atlanta 1996 and her father's 4th in Barcelona 1992 to earn the immediate nickname from her teammates and the press of "the Silver Fox".[20]

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

In 2016, Fox won her second olympic medal, bronze in K1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After winning multiple World Cup races, she won the overall title in the 2016 World Cup Kayak Single Slalom K1 and was second overall in Canoe Single Slalom C1. She also won the World U-23 Championships in Kayak Slalom and in Canoe Slalom in Kraków, Poland. Additionally, she also won the Oceanie Championships Slalom C1 in Penrith, Australia.[21]

In 2017, Fox won a world title at the ICF Kajak Slalom World Championships, a number of world cup medals, the Canoeist of the Year award, and the NSW Athlete of the Year award.[22][21]

In 2018, Fox was 2x ICF Canoe World Champion – C1 & K1 – and again won a number of World Cups in both disciplines. In 2019, she also won the Oceania Championships in Canoe Slalom again.[21]

Fox won the overall World Cup title in the 5 times in the C1 class (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019) and twice in the K1 class (2018, 2019).

World Cup individual podiums
Season Date Venue Position Event
201021 February 2010Penrith1stC11
27 June 2010La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
20112 July 2011L'Argentière-la-Bessée1stC1
9 July 2011Markkleeberg1stC1
20129 June 2012Cardiff2ndC1
201322 June 2013Cardiff2ndC1
29 June 2013Augsburg1stC1
6 July 2013La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
17 August 2013Tacen1stC1
18 August 2013Tacen1stK1
24 August 2013Bratislava1stC1
20148 June 2014Lee Valley3rdK1
14 June 2014Tacen1stC1
2 August 2014La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
201520 June 2015Prague2ndC1
21 June 2015Prague2ndK1
27 June 2015Kraków1stC1
8 August 2015La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
15 August 2015Pau2ndC1
16 August 2015Pau2ndK1
20164 June 2016Ivrea1stC1
5 June 2016Ivrea2ndK1
12 June 2016La Seu d'Urgell2ndK1
18 June 2016Pau2ndC1
3 September 2016Prague1stC1
10 September 2016Tacen2ndC1
11 September 2016Tacen1stK1
201724 June 2017Augsburg1stC1
1 July 2017Markkleeberg1stC1
2 July 2017Markkleeberg2ndK1
2 September 2017Ivrea1stC1
3 September 2017Ivrea2ndK1
9 September 2017La Seu d'Urgell2ndC1
10 September 2017La Seu d'Urgell2ndK1
201823 June 2018Liptovský Mikuláš1stK1
24 June 2018Liptovský Mikuláš1stC1
30 June 2018Kraków1stK1
1 July 2018Kraków1stC1
7 July 2018Augsburg1stK1
8 July 2018Augsburg1stC1
31 August 2018Tacen1stC1
1 September 2018Tacen2ndK1
9 September 2018La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
201915 June 2019Lee Valley3rdK1
16 June 2019Lee Valley3rdC1
30 June 2019Tacen1stC1
31 August 2019Markkleeberg2ndK1
1 September 2019Markkleeberg3rdC1
7 September 2019Prague1stK1
8 September 2019Prague1stC1
1 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points

Honours

Fox was the 2010 Penrith Press Junior Sports Star of the year and NewsLocal Medal winner.[10] She has also served as the ambassador for the Premier's Sporting Challenge.[10] 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.[9][9] In 2009, 2010 and 2011, she was named the Junior Canoeist of the Year Australian Canoeing.[9] In 2011, she was named the Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year.[9] She earned the AIS Secondary Education award in 2011.[9] She was awarded AIS Sport Performance Awards – Athlete of the Year for 2014.[23] In 2018, she won AIS Sport Performance Award Female Athlete of the Year.

Television

In 2017, Fox appeared as a celebrity contestant on the Australian version of Hell's Kitchen.[24][25] She came 7th overall.

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See also

References
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  15. Interfaith Family: "Interfaith Celebrities: Lisa Kudrow; Tavi Gevinson, Oracle of Girl World; Olympic Results and Raisman's Rabbi" By Nate Bloom. 21 August 2012 |"Fox's British father, Richard Fox, 52, who is not Jewish, and her French Jewish mother, Myriam Jerusalmi-Fox, 51, were both top kayakers."
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