Laura Peel

Laura Peel is an internationally recognized freestyle aerial skier with multiple World Championship titles and Olympic appearances. After claiming her first World Championship title in Kreischberg, Austria in 2015, Laura Peel established herself as an internationally recognized freestyle aerial skier with multiple elite accolades. Peel debuted on the World Cup circuit in 2011, securing a top-12 finish and placing 11th at her first World Championships in Deer Valley, USA. The following season, in 2012, she achieved her inaugural World Cup victory, becoming the fifth Australian female to accomplish this in aerial skiing.

In 2021, Peel made history by winning her second World Championships gold medal, becoming Australia’s first aerial skiing double world champion. On the eve of the Beijing 2022 Olympics, Peel achieved one of the best jumps in women’s aerials history at the Deer Valley Aerials World Cup, scoring 118.05 points with a near-perfect full-full-full triple. She also became the third woman to land a quadruple twisting backflip on snow. At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, she was bestowed the honor of co-leading the Australian Opening Ceremony as flag bearer and finished fifth in the aerials final after qualifying with the highest score, further cementing her legacy in freestyle aerial skiing.