Jessica Fox
OAM
Jessica Fox in 2019
Personal information
NicknameFoxy[1]
NationalityAustralian
Born (1994-06-11) 11 June 1994
Marseille, France
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Websitehttps://www.jessicafox.com.au/
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCanoe slalom
EventK1, C1, Kayak cross
ClubPenrith Valley Canoeing
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 2
World Championships 14 5 3
Youth Olympic Games 1 0 0
U23 World Championships 8 1 4
Junior World Championships 4 0 0
Total 28 7 9
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 TokyoC1
Silver medal – second place2012 LondonK1
Bronze medal – third place2016 Rio de JaneiroK1
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoK1
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 PragueC1
Gold medal – first place2013 PragueC1 team
Gold medal – first place2014 Deep Creek LakeC1
Gold medal – first place2014 Deep Creek LakeK1
Gold medal – first place2015 LondonC1
Gold medal – first place2015 LondonC1 team
Gold medal – first place2017 PauK1
Gold medal – first place2018 Rio de JaneiroC1
Gold medal – first place2018 Rio de JaneiroK1
Gold medal – first place2019 La Seu d'UrgellC1 team
Gold medal – first place2021 BratislavaKayak cross
Gold medal – first place2022 AugsburgKayak cross
Gold medal – first place2023 LondonK1
Gold medal – first place2023 LondonK1 team
Silver medal – second place2017 PauC1 team
Silver medal – second place2019 La Seu d'UrgellC1
Silver medal – second place2019 La Seu d'UrgellK1
Silver medal – second place2022 AugsburgC1
Silver medal – second place2022 AugsburgK1
Bronze medal – third place2010 TacenC1
Bronze medal – third place2017 PauK1 team
Bronze medal – third place2023 LondonC1
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2010 SingaporeK1
U23 World Championships
Gold medal – first place2012 WausauC1 team
Gold medal – first place2013 Liptovský MikulášC1
Gold medal – first place2014 PenrithC1
Gold medal – first place2014 PenrithK1
Gold medal – first place2015 Foz do IguaçuK1
Gold medal – first place2016 KrakówC1
Gold medal – first place2016 KrakówK1
Gold medal – first place2017 BratislavaK1
Silver medal – second place2015 Foz do IguaçuK1 team
Bronze medal – third place2013 Liptovský MikulášC1 team
Bronze medal – third place2014 PenrithK1 team
Bronze medal – third place2016 KrakówC1 team
Bronze medal – third place2017 BratislavaK1 team
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place2010 FoixC1
Gold medal – first place2010 FoixK1
Gold medal – first place2012 WausauC1
Gold medal – first place2012 WausauK1
Fox at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox OAM (born 11 June 1994) is a French-born Australian Program and Policy Officer and world and Olympic champion slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.[3]

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she made her Olympic debut at 18 years of age, winning a silver medal in the K1 event. She won a bronze medal in the same event four years later in Rio de Janeiro, and again at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.[4] She won gold at the 2020 Olympics in the C1 event, becoming the first Olympic champion in that event.

Fox has won 22 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with 14 golds (C1: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018; K1: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2023; C1 team: 2013, 2015, 2019; K1 team: 2023; Kayak cross: 2021, 2022), five silvers (C1: 2019, 2022; K1: 2019, 2022; C1 team: 2017) and three bronzes (C1: 2010, 2023; K1 team: 2017). Her 8 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.

Fox, an 8-time world champion and Olympic champion, is considered the greatest individual paddler of all time.[5]

Personal life

Fox was born on 11 June 1994 in Marseille, France,[6][7][8] later moving to Penrith, New South Wales.[7] Fox's parents are Richard Fox and Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, 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.[6][7][9][10] Her father is Second Vice President of the International Canoe Federation[10][11] as well as Australian Canoeing's current high-performance manager,[10] and a five-time world champion.[7][8][9] Fox is Jewish,[12][13][14][15] as is her mother Myriam Jerusalmi;[13][16][17] whereas her father is not Jewish.[18] Her younger sister Noemie Fox 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 studied in the Elite Athlete Program at The University of Sydney[19] 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.[7][8]

Fox suffered a back injury that impacted her performance in 2012.[10] In May 2012, she spoke at the Chullora Public School.[9] She celebrated her 18th birthday on 11 June 2012 in Cardiff while competing at a World Cup event.[6] Fox is also an avid dog lover, regularly posting "dog selfies" to her social media platforms.

Career

Fox races in K1 and C1 events and is coached by her mother, Myriam.[10][8][9] She started in the sport in 2005 by canoeing on the Nepean River.[7][8] She has a scholarship and is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Sport and the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[8] In club competitions, she represents the Penrith Valley Canoe Club.[8]

In September 2009, Fox made her Australian senior national team bid.[8] She competed at the ICF World Ranking in Merano, Italy in 2009 where she finished third in the K1 event.[8] At the 2009 AYOF event in Penrith, New South Wales, she finished first in the women's K1 event.[8]

Fox won placed 5th in the K1 event and won a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2010 World Championships in Tacen.[20] At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won the gold in the girls' K1 slalom event.[7][9] At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Foix, Jessica won gold in K1, also winning the inaugural C1 event at that level. She won her first World Cup by taking out the C1 event at the third round in La Seu d'Urgell. Domestically, Fox won the C1 event and placed 9th in the K1 event at the Oceania Continental Championships in Penrith (counting to World Cup points) and placed 1st and 3rd at the National Championships in Eildon, Victoria, in the C1 and K1 events respectively.[8]

In 2011, Fox won gold medals in the C1 event at World Cups 2 and 3.[8] At the 2011 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, she finished 19th, which gave Australia an automatic spot in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[8] She won silver medals at Australian Open and the Oceania Championships in the women's K1 event in 2011.[8]

In 2012 Fox was selected to represent Australia for the first time at the Olympics in the women's K1 event, where she won the silver medal at the age of 18.[8] Her pre-Olympic schedule included training on the Olympic course in London in April,[9][21] and World Cup competitions in Wales, France and Spain, plus the Junior World Championship in the United States.[9] Her result has been described as competitive revenge against the 44-year-old Czech paddler Štěpánka Hilgertová, who had beaten Fox's mother Myriam to the K1 gold medal sixteen years earlier in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. Her silver medal improved on her mother's bronze from Atlanta 1996 and her father's fourth place in Barcelona 1992, and earned her the nickname "the Silver Fox" from teammates and the press.[21]

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

At the 2014 World Championships at Deep Creek Lake, USA, Fox became the first athlete to win the C1 and K1 events at the same World Championships, besting Jana Dukátová, who became the first to do it at separate events winning a world championship title in K1 in 2006 and C1 in 2010.

In 2016, Fox won her second Olympic medal, with a bronze in the K1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After winning multiple World Cup races, she won the overall World Cup title in the Kayak Single Slalom (K1) and was second overall in Canoe Single Slalom (C1). She also won the U23 World Championships in K1 and C1 in Kraków, Poland. Additionally, she also won the Oceania Championships Slalom C1 in Penrith, Australia.[22]

In 2017, Fox won the K1 event at the 2017 World Championships, a number of World Cup medals, the Canoeist of the Year award, and the NSW Athlete of the Year award.[23][22] In 2018, Fox was a double ICF Canoe World Champion in C1 and K1, and again won a number of World Cups in both disciplines. Her 2018 season featured an undefeated run in C1 (winning all five World Cups and the World Championships), and three consecutive 'Golden Doubles' at the first three World Cups.[24] In 2019, she won the Oceania Championships in Canoe Slalom again, as well as the World Cup Overall in both events.[22]

She finished third to win the bronze medal in the women's canoe slalom K1 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[25] where she also gained media attention for using a condom to repair her kayak.[26] In Tokyo Jess was also the fastest qualifier for the final of the inaugural C1 canoe slalom event, and went on to win the gold medal, beating silver medalist Mallory Franklin of Great Britain by more than three seconds with a penalty-free run.[27]

At the 2021 World Championships in Bratislava, Fox did not progress to the final of either the K1 or C1 for the first time in her entire career, after incurring 50-second penalties in the semi-finals of both. On the final day of competition she became World Champion in the Kayak cross, an 8th individual world title in a 3rd unique event, in just her third international appearance in the event which will make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.[28]

Fox has won the overall World Cup title six times in the C1 class (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023) and five times in the K1 class (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023). She has finished the year as the World No. 1 in C1 10 times, including an uninterrupted streak from 2013 to 2021, and World No. 1 in K1 6 times. In 2021, Fox was the highest ranked athlete in both events.[29]

Career statistics

Major championships results timeline

Event 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Olympic Games C1 Not held 1 Not held
K1 Not held 2 Not held 3 Not held 3 Not held
World Championships C1 3[lower-alpha 1] 3 8 Not held 1 1 1 Not held 6 1 2 Not held 26 2 3
K1 — 5 19 Not held 18 1 4 Not held 1 1 2 Not held 25 2 1
Kayak cross Not held — — — Not held 1 1 37
C1 team Not held 1[lower-alpha 2] Not held 1 DNS[lower-alpha 2] 1 Not held 2 6 1 Not held — 5 11
K1 team — 11 11 Not held 4 11 7 Not held 3 7 16 Not held — 13 1
  1. ↑ Exhibition event
  2. 1 2 Not a medal event due to low number of participating nations

World Cup individual podiums

1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
C1308341
K11610329
Kayak cross1034
Total4718974
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
202112 June 2021Prague3rdK1
13 June 2021Prague1stC1
19 June 2021Markkleeberg1stK1
4 September 2021La Seu d'Urgell1stK1
5 September 2021La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
11 September 2021Pau1stK1
12 September 2021Pau2ndC1
12 September 2021Pau3rdKayak cross
202211 June 2022Prague1stK1
18 June 2022Kraków1stK1
25 June 2022Tacen1stK1
27 August 2022Pau1stK1
28 August 2022Pau3rdC1
28 August 2022Pau1stKayak cross
20233 June 2023Augsburg1stC1
9 June 2023Prague1stK1
10 June 2023Prague1stC1
17 June 2023Tacen1stK1
18 June 2023Tacen3rdKayak cross
1 September 2023La Seu d'Urgell1stC1
2 September 2023La Seu d'Urgell2ndK1
6 October 2023Vaires-sur-Marne1stK1
7 October 2023Vaires-sur-Marne1stC1
8 October 2023Vaires-sur-Marne3rdKayak cross
1 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points

Complete World Cup results

Year Class WC1 WC2 WC3 WC4 WC5 Points Position
2008 K1 Continent Australia
11		 Prague Czech Republic
 		 Tacen Slovenia
 		 Augsburg Germany
 		 32 70th
2010 K1 Continent Australia
9		 Prague Czech Republic
31		 La Seu Spain
14		 Augsburg Germany
 		 67 25th
C1 1 7 1 156 5th
2011 K1 Tacen Slovenia
 		 L'Argentière France
7		 Markkleeberg Germany
17		 Prague Czech Republic
 		 66 21st
C1 1 1 120 6th
2012 K1 Cardiff United Kingdom
7		 Pau France
8		 La Seu Spain
6		 Prague Czech Republic
 		 Bratislava Slovakia
 		 120 14th
C1 2 55 19th
2013 K1 Cardiff United Kingdom
5		 Augsburg Germany
12		 La Seu Spain
10		 Tacen Slovenia
1		 Bratislava Slovakia
9		 205 2nd
C1 2 1 1 1 1 295 1st
2014 K1 Lee Valley United Kingdom
3		 Tacen Slovenia
9		 Prague Czech Republic
5		 La Seu Spain
9		 Augsburg Germany
 		 166 9th
C1 4 1 8 1 198 4th
2015 K1 Prague Czech Republic
2		 Kraków Poland
29		 Liptovský Mikuláš Slovakia
9		 La Seu Spain
5		 Pau France
2		 252 3rd
C1 2 1 8 1 2 318 1st
2016 K1 Ivrea Italy
2		 La Seu Spain
2		 Pau France
10		 Prague Czech Republic
17		 Tacen Slovenia
1		 290 2nd
C1 1 2 1 2 285 3rd
2017 K1 Prague Czech Republic
10		 Augsburg Germany
11		 Markkleeberg Germany
2		 Ivrea Italy
2		 La Seu Spain
2		 286 2nd
C1 24 1 1 1 2 307 1st
2018 K1 Liptovský Mikuláš Slovakia
1		 Kraków Poland
1		 Augsburg Germany
1		 Tacen Slovenia
2		 La Seu Spain
10		 303 1st
C1 1 1 1 1 1 360 1st
2019 K1 Lee Valley United Kingdom
3		 Bratislava Slovakia
6		 Tacen Slovenia
27		 Markkleeberg Germany
2		 Prague Czech Republic
1		 278 1st
C1 3 11 1 3 1 312 1st
2021 K1 Prague Czech Republic
3		 Markkleeberg Germany
1		 La Seu Spain
1		 Pau France
1		 290 1st
C1 1 4 1 2 276 2nd
Kayak cross 8 3 125 4th
2022 K1 Prague Czech Republic
1		 Kraków Poland
1		 Tacen Slovenia
1		 Pau France
1		 La Seu Spain
11		 304 1st
C1 24 5 12 3 10 210 6th
Kayak cross 10 14 DNS 1 DNS 86 12th
2023 K1 Augsburg Germany
26		 Prague Czech Republic
1		 Tacen Slovenia
1		 La Seu Spain
2		 Paris France
1		 308 1st
C1 1 1 10 1 1 334 1st
Kayak cross DNS 5 3 18 3 194 3rd

Honours

Fox was the 2010 Penrith Press Junior Sports Star of the year and NewsLocal Medal winner.[9] She has also served as the ambassador for the Premier's Sporting Challenge.[9] 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.[8] In 2009, 2010 and 2011, she was named the Junior Canoeist of the Year Australian Canoeing.[8] In 2011, she was named the Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year.[8] She earned the AIS Secondary Education award in 2011.[8] She was awarded AIS Sport Performance Awards – Athlete of the Year for 2014.[30] In 2018, she won AIS Sport Performance Award Female Athlete of the Year.

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Fox was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[31]

Television

In 2017, Fox appeared as a celebrity contestant on the Australian version of Hell's Kitchen.[32][33] She came 7th overall.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Olympic profile". Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Jess Fox". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Jessica FOX (AUS)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jess Fox wins bronze after drama in K1 final". 7 News. 27 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Jessica Fox".
  6. 1 2 3 "Encouraging signs for young Fox – London 2012 Olympic Games (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jessica Fox: at home in water — Local News — Sport — General". Penrith Star. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "AIS Canoeing – Slalom – Jessica Fox (K1/C1)". Canoe.org.au. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Georgakopoulos, Chris (24 May 2012). "Jessica Fox to press home Olympics advantage – Canoe//Kayak – Sport – Penrith Press". Penrith-press.whereilive.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jessica Fox paddles into Second World Cup Slalom Final". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "ICF – Board of Directors". Canoeicf.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  12. ↑ "Jewish Aussie 'Flying Fox' wins Olympic silver; Jessica Fox, Australian-Jewish kayaker, wins silver medal in London, 16 years after her mother won bronze in Atlanta". Haaretz. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  13. 1 2 Goldberg, Dan (5 August 2012). "Jewish Australian kayaker Jessica Fox takes silver medal". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  14. ↑ "2012 Summer Olympic medalists". Jewish Sports Review. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  15. ↑ "Jessica Fox". The Australian Jewish News. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  16. ↑ "Jews in the News: Andy Samberg, Seth Rogen and Henry Winkler". Letmypeoplegrow.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  17. ↑ Goldberg, Dan (5 August 2012). "Jewish Aussie 'Flying Fox' wins Olympic silver – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  18. ↑ Bloom, Nate (21 August 2012). "Interfaith Celebrities: Lisa Kudrow; Tavi Gevinson, Oracle of Girl World; Olympic Results and Raisman's Rabbi". InterfaithFamily. Fox's British father, Richard Fox, 52, who is not Jewish, and her French Jewish mother, Myriam Jerusalmi-Fox, 51, were both top kayakers.
  19. ↑ "Sydney Uni Olympians take medals at London 2012". The University of Sydney. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  20. ↑ "2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships SLOKA 2010". International Canoeing Federation. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  21. 1 2 Martyn Herman (2 August 2012). "Fearless Fox rises from depths to win silver". Reuters. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  22. 1 2 3 "Jessica Fox". Red Bull. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  23. ↑ "Jessica Fox snares top award". 27 November 2017.
  24. ↑ "Fox Begins Pursuit Of Fourth Straight Golden Double". Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  25. ↑ "Jess Fox claims Tokyo Olympics bronze medal in women's canoe slalom K1". ABC. 27 July 2021.
  26. ↑ "How a condom helped Olympic canoeist Jess Fox repair her kayak". 7 News. 29 July 2021.
  27. ↑ "Jess Fox wins Tokyo Olympics gold in C1 canoe slalom". ABC. 29 July 2021.
  28. ↑ "Olympic Champions bounce back to best". ICF Media. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  29. ↑ "ICF Canoe Slalom World Rankings". Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  30. ↑ "Rabbitohs, Fearnley, Fox win top ASPAS". Australian Sports Commission News, 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  31. ↑ "Australia Day Honours List" (PDF). The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  32. ↑ Saw, Amelia (24 March 2017). "The celebrities taking on Marco Pierre White in Hell's Kitchen Australia are named". news.com.au. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  33. ↑ Coster, Alice (24 March 2017). "Hell's Kitchen Australia host doesn't know the celebrity contestants". Herald Sun. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
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