Barwon Heads teen Jakara Anthony has cemented her place as a rising star of skiing after narrowly missing out on a medal in her first winter games.
The 19-year-old missed out on bronze in the women’s moguls by just 2.05 points, after scoring 75.35 in the final at PyeongChang.
“It’s pretty awesome, it’s a great result and I’m so happy,” Anthony told Channel 7.
“A bit bittersweet to miss out on the podium but I’m still stoked, it’s my best result yet, I’m just so happy.”
The score was Anthony’s career-best performance, beating her fifth place finish at a meet in Utah last month, and Australia’s best-ever placing in a women’s moguls.
The young skier, who was ranked 14 in the world before the Olympics, now has her sights set on Beijing 2022.
Anthony started skiing as a four-year-old at Mt Buller and at 16 made her moguls World Cup debut at Deer Valley in January 2015, placing 33rd.
The Christian College graduate is a keen surfer in her downtime and took a gap year in 2017, deferring her Biomedical Science degree at Deakin University.
France’s Perrine Laffont, won gold in the moguls with a score of 78.65, while Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada won silver (78.56) and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Galysheva won bronze (77.40).
Australia started yesterday morning ranked 13th on the medal tally with one silver and one bronze.
