Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi

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Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Competitor for  France
Olympic Games
Bronze 1996 Atlanta K-1
World Championships
Gold 1983 Meran K-1 team
Gold 1985 Augsburg K-1 team
Gold 1989 Savage River K-1
Gold 1989 Savage River K-1 team
Gold 1991 Tacen K-1 team
Gold 1993 Mezzana K-1
Gold 1993 Mezzana K-1 team
Gold 1995 Nottingham K-1 team
Silver 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1
Silver 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team

Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi (born 24 October 1961, in Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France) is a French slalom canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.[1]

Career

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-1 event in Atlanta in 1996.

Fox-Jerusalmi also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with eight golds (K-1: 1989, 1993; K-1 team: 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995) and two silvers (K-1: 1987; K-1 team: 1987).

She won the overall World Cup title three consecutive times between 1989 and 1991.

Personal life

Her husband, Richard, competed for Great Britain in slalom canoeing, and later coached Australia in the same event. Fox-Jerusalmi's husband is also an executive officer in the International Canoe Federation. Their daughter, Jessica won gold in the girls' K-1 slalom event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. Competing for Australia in the 2012 Olympics, she won the K1 slalom silver medal.[2]

She is Jewish.[3]

See also

  • List of select Jewish canoers

References

  1. ↑ "Myriam Jerusalmi-Fox Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. 24 October 1961. Retrieved 1 February 2011. 
  2. ↑ Martyn Herman (August 2, 2012). "Fearless Fox rises from depths to win silver". Reuters. Retrieved August 2, 2012. 
  3. ↑

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