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Name
  
Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi

Spouse
  
Children
  

Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi - Wikidata
Olympic medals
  
Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom K-1


Similar
  
Rachel Crosbee, Richard Fox (canoeist), Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Born
  
24 October 1961 (age 59), Marseille, France

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

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Career

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K1 event in Atlanta in 1996.

Fox-Jerusalmi also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with eight golds (K1: 1989, 1993; K1 team: 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995) and two silvers (K1: 1987; K1 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' K1 slalom event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. Competing for Australia in the 2012 Olympics, Jessica won the K1 slalom silver medal.

Fox-Jerusalmi is Jewish.

References

Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi Wikipedia