Holly Crawford

1984 - 

Discipline: Snowboard
Olympic Participation: Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018
Achievements:
Silver World Championships 2009 Korea, Gold World Championships 2011, Silver World Championships 2013
Medal awarded in: 2023


Holly represented Australia internationally for close to two decades, with her first representation at the 2002 Junior World Championships, where she placed 8th in the snowboarder cross and 13th in the halfpipe.

Holly won Australia’s first Snowboard Halfpipe World Championships medal when she won silver at the World Championships in 2009. She followed this up with a win in the World Championships in 2011 and claimed a World championships silver in 2013.

During her career she won 17 World Cup podium medals, including 4 victories.

She made her Olympic debut at Torino 2006, finishing 18th. At Vancouver 2010 she placed in 8th place.

Before her third games, she won silver at World Cup test event in 2013 but in doing so aggravated a longstanding injury. She went into the Sochi Games carrying injuries from a crash three weeks before the Games where she broke her left wrist, banged her knee and cracked some ribs.

When Holly competed in her final Olympics at PyeongChang, she became Australia’s sixth four-time Winter Olympian. At her final Games she narrowly missed the final by one place and finishing 13th overall.

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