Lydia Lassila wiki bio DOB

Lydia Lassila wiki bio DOB

Lydia Lassila (conceived 17 January 1982) is an Australian Olympic free-form skier gold medalist who contended in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She is the 2010 Olympic champion and the 2014 bronze medalist.

On 20 October 2010, Lassila was granted the esteemed 'The Don' grant by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, which perceived her capacity to motivate and her accomplishments amid 2010, including her gold award execution at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Individual life

Lydia Lassila was conceived 17 January 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. She is of Greek-Cypriot and Italian plunge. Her mom is Italian and her dad Cypriot.

Lassila finished her essential tutoring at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Primary School in Sunshine, Victoria, and finished her auxiliary instruction at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne and Westbourne Grammar School. She finished a four year certification in Applied Science (Human Movement) at RMIT University. She is hitched to Lauri Lassila, a Finnish previous expert free-form skier, whose vocation included putting second in big shots at the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships in 1999. She brought forth a kid on 8 May 2011. Lassila is supported by Acer and shows up in TV supports for them. She is likewise supported by Suzuki, Cadbury, Bolle and Under Armor. Lassila bolsters the Essendon Bombers in the AFL.

Career

In June 2005, Lassila endured a burst front cruciate tendon (ACL) and experienced radical knee reproduction in which a dead body's achilles ligament was united into her knee to supplant her harmed ACL. This took into consideration a quicker recuperation and a quick come back to the inclines in time for the beginning of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in February.

Amid the second qualifying round of the Torino aerials rivalry, Lassila's knee crumpled on affect after she endeavored to arrive a troublesome bounce, re-bursting her ACL and compelling her to pull back. Be that as it may, taking motivation from countrymen and partners Jacqui Cooper and Alisa Camplin, both of whom have endured comparable knee wounds, the then 24-year-old Lassila promised to come back to the game when she recuperated.

Lassila made her rebound to World Cup rivalry 16 months after the fact in China in December 2007, gathering a silver decoration in her first occasion.

She finished the 2007/08 season positioned second in the World Cup standings, and after that went ahead to win her first World Cup title in the accompanying 2008/09 season.

2010 Winter Olympics

See additionally: Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Lassila won gold in the aerials, getting Australia's second gold award for the diversions after snowboarder Torah Bright won gold in the halfpipe, likewise at Cypress Mountain. This award was likewise the second gold for an Australian in the aerials at all Winter Olympic Games, after Alisa Camplin in 2002. There was a great deal of weight and buildup from the Australian press for Lassila to do well as world number one. She was in second position after the principal hop of the last, before posting the most noteworthy scoring second round hop. The pioneer after the primary hop, Xu Mengtao, had the last hop, however scored more than 25 indicates beneath Lassila's second bounce tumble down the rankings into 6th, due to a fizzled landing. Lassila had a consolidated score of 214.74, beating second put Li Nina with 207.23 focuses. Australian partners Jacqui Cooper and Elizabeth Gardner completed fifth with 194.29 and twelfth with 86.70 separately.

Come back to competition

Toward the start of 2017, Lassila came back to rivalry in an offer to come back to the Winter Olympics for 2018. On February 3, 2017 she won her first World Cup occasion since 2014, securing a nearby battled triumph in front of Kiley McKinnon (USA) and Xu Mengtao (CHN) at Deer Valley. She at that point went ahead to get the second and the third World Cup wins toward the finish of February in Minsk and in the start of March 2017 in Moscow.

Awards

Aside from her wearing decorations, Lassila has additionally gotten different respects and honors:

2010 Australian Institute of Sport 'Competitor of the Year

2010 Sport Australia Hall of Fame, 'The Don' Award

2010 Governor's Award for the Victorian Sportsperson of the Year

2010 Victorian Female Athlete of the Year-Kitty McEwan Award

2010 Ski and Snowboard Australia Athlete of the Year

Film

Lydia is the subject of an element narrative film called The Will To Fly that accounts her life and game pursuits.The film was discharged in Australia in 2016 to much basic approval. The worldwide discharge is expected for 2017.