Jakara Anthony

Born in the tropical North Queensland city of Cairns, Anthony's family moved to Barwon Heads, her hometown, when she was in pre-school. She began skiing at the age of four, as her parents worked as seasonal workers at Mount Buller, spending the winter months skiing and attending primary school and relocated back to Barwon Heads for the summer. == Career beginnings (2015–2021) ==

Anthony made her World Cup circuit debut in 2015 at the age of 16, finishing 33rd. In 2017, Anthony made her World Championship debut, finishing 12th overall in the standings in the moguls. Anthony progressed through to her second-ever Super Final, finishing fourth with a score of 75.35, only 2.05 points behind bronze medallist Yuliya Galysheva, and 3.30 points behind Olympic champion Perrine Laffont. Her fourth-place finish was considered a surprise, which included finishing ahead of compatriot and defending World Champion, Britt Cox, by 0.27 points. She would finish with the silver medal, her first major championship medal in her career, behind Kazakhstan's Yuliya Galysheva. == Breakthrough and Olympic gold medal (2021–2023) ==

2021/2022 season In the final event before the Olympics at Deer Valley, Anthony won the silver medal behind Anri Kawamura, ahead of defending Olympic champion Perrine Laffont, with the three medallists finishing less than a point apart. This would mean she would enter the Olympic competition as the third seed overall, behind first-seeded Kawamura and second-seeded Laffont, having won one event throughout the World Cup season. Unlike at the 2018 Olympics, Anthony felt it was "tough" during the waiting period between qualification and the finals, as COVID-19 restrictions in China meant athletes weren't able to train on snow until competition day. Once the training period began for the athletes participating in the final, Anthony recalled feeling, "we’re on here, I can do this," which continued as the finals competition began that evening. This trick proved pivotal to Anthony's dominance throughout the event, a dominance her rivals, including Laffont and Kawamura, could not match. She was also able to win her first Crystal Globe for overall moguls and dual moguls, finishing ahead of Laffont in both events, while Laffont won the Crystal Globe in the singles event. She earned her first victory at Ruka, Finland, earning most of her points in her aerial and turn sections, finishing three points ahead of her closest competitor. Her win at Deer Valley coincided with Matt Graham's victory in the men's event, marking only the second time in history that the Australian team won the men's and women's event in the moguls discipline. == Record-breaking winning streak and injury (2023–present) ==

2023/24 season Anthony's World Cup season would become not only the most outstanding of her career, but also one of the best mogul seasons of all time, achieving a record haul of wins and the highest points tally in the sport's history. Anthony's second moguls win came at Idre Fjäll, Sweden, winning with a 79.74-point run during the final round, with Rino Yanagimoto and Olivia Giaccio finishing second and third, respectively. Her fourth win of the season would come in Bakuriani, Georgia, after qualifying and finishing first in all rounds of the competition, with a two-point gap between her and silver medallist Yanagimoto in the Super Final. Anthony's only one of two losses during the season came at the dual moguls competition in Deer Valley, losing to Olympic silver medallist Jaelin Kauf. She rebounded in the dual moguls event, beating Kauf with a score of 22–13, with a run that Anthony called "one of my best competition runs I have ever done." In Kazakhstan, Anthony achieved her 12th and 13th victories of the season, surpassing Hannah Kearney's record of most victories in a season, winning seven singles and five dual events. Overall, Anthony at the end of the season had won fourteen of the sixteen moguls events held throughout the entire season, with a points total of 1480, 416 points ahead of Kauf, who finished second. 2024/25 season Anthony continued her podium streak into the beginning of the 2024/25 season, with a silver to Perrine Laffont, who was returning from a year-long absence, in Ruka, Finland. Anthony welcomed the return of Laffont to competition, citing it as an extra form of motivation to continue the high standards she set after her Olympic gold in Beijing, adding, "I think it's great to have so many chicks up there at that top end of the sport, that's what makes it exciting." She would have surgery in Oslo and miss the rest of the season, returning home to Australia. In her first competition in Ruka, she flew off the course during the mogul section and missed the podium. In the final round of the second competition in Ruka, Anthony scored 79.89 points to win the event, beating Olivia Giaccio by 0.25 points, and stated the win felt "special," coming one year and one day after her season-ending collarbone injury last year. When discussing her return to competition, particularly after her performance in the previous event of the weekend, Anthony remarked she needed to "remember" how to ski in competition and make "adjustments" back to a competitive environment, remarking that yesterday's finals performance "was a bummer." Along with Matt Graham winning the men's event, the Australian team completed a gold-medal sweep in an event for the first time since Anthony and Graham achieved it in the dual moguls in Deer Valley in 2023, and only the third time in history that Australia had won both the men's and women's gold medals in the same event. She then was victorious at Waterville Valley, her 26th World Cup victory, eclipsing the record of most World Cup wins by an Australian athlete in any discipline, overtaking aerial skier Jacqui Cooper. 2026 Winter Olympics Anthony was announced, on 4 February 2026, as Australia's female flag bearer for the parade of nations at the 2026 Winter Olympics. During the press conference, she said that becoming the flag bearer did not seem "feasible" and that she was "lost for words" when she was told she had been selected. She would enter the Super Final as the favourite to win gold, achieving the highest score in the event, 83.96 points, during the first half of the final. She began the competition with a 35-point victory over South African Malica Malherbe, and won her round of 16 dual against Canada's Jessica Linton 27-8, advancing to the quarterfinals. Her quarterfinal would be against Olivia Giaccio, narrowly winning the dual and advancing to the final four. In the semi-final, Anthony would meet moguls gold medallist Lemley, with Lemley falling during her run and not completing the course, assuring that she would advance to the final, guaranteeing her a second Olympic medal in her career. It was Australia's 3rd gold medal at the games, making it Australia's overall best Winter Olympics performance. When reflecting on her gold medal, Anthony described the adversity after her surprise loss in the moguls that left her "doubting myself a bit," her victory in the dual moguls was made "more special", describing the days between her two events as "an emotional rollercoaster." == Personal life ==

Anthony is studying for a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science at Deakin University. In August 2025, the moguls course at Mount Buller was named after her. == Results ==

Olympic Winter Games World Championships World Cup Season standings Results by round Key to colours Key to locations • RUK = Ruka • CAL = Calgary (Canada Olympic Park) • DVR = Deer Valley Resort • LKP = Lake Placid • VSC = Val Saint-Côme • TAZ = Tazawako • MEG = Megève • MOW = Moscow • BPP = Bogwang Phoenix Park • THW = Thaiwoo • TRM = Mont Tremblant Resort • AIR = Airolo • ALM = Almaty (Shymbulak Mountain Resort) • KRA = Krasnoyarsk • IDR = Idre Fjäll • ADH = Alpe d'Huez • VAL = Chiesa in Valmalenco (Valtellina) • BAK = Bakuriani • WAT = Waterville Valley Resort • BEI = Beidahu • LIV = Livigno • NAN = Nanto (Taira Ski Area) • SHA = Shahdag Mountain Resort Other notes • Locations in normal-face are mogul events • Locations in italics-face are dual mogul events Race podiums ==References==