1/5 - Canoeing at Tokyo Olympics
With a time of 106.73, Fox won the bronze medal, her second of that color and her third consecutive appearance on the Olympic podium. In the finals, Fox completed the course faster than anybody else in the competition, but it was the last penalty that proved the costliest, adding two seconds to her time and dropping her from gold to bronze. She was denied an Olympic gold medal for the third time at the Tokyo Games, finishing third in the women\'s Kayak K1 slalom. But the seven-time world champion has recovered from her disappointment in the K1 slalom by finally winning gold in the women\'s Canoe C1 race.
2/5 - It runs in the blood!
Fox was born in Marseille, France, on June 11, 1994. Penrith, New South Wales is where the 27-year-old presently resides. She is the daughter of Myriam Fox, who represented France in Atlanta in 1996, earning a bronze medal in K1. Father Richard Fox participated for Team GB in the 1992 World Championships in Barcelona, winning 10 championships. Her father is also the International Canoe Federation\'s Second Vice President, as well as the current high-performance manager for Australian Canoeing and a five-time world champion. Fox is Jewish, and her younger sister Noemie, as well as her aunt Rachel Crosbee, was a slalom canoeist, proving that her whole family is full of canoeing professionals and this sport runs in her blood, literally. A daughter\'s relationship with her mother is always meaningful, but when your mother is also your coach, the bond becomes much more precious.
3/5 - The champ
Over In the last decade, Fox has won 26 World Cups, 7 World Championships, and four Olympic medals, including two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, and her trophy collection continues to grow. She won the C1 and K1 junior global titles as a 16-year-old before earning gold at the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010. Fox won gold medals in the C1 women\'s category at World Cups 2 and 3 in 2011. Fox was chosen to represent Australia in the Olympics for the first time in the women\'s K1 event in 2012, where she earned a silver medal at the age of 18. Her silver medal surpassed her mother\'s bronze in Atlanta in 1996 and her father\'s fourth place in Barcelona in 1992, earning her teammates and the press the title "the Silver Fox." At the 2013 World Championships in Prague, she won her first World Championship crowns in the C1 event and the C1 team event. Fox earned her second Olympic medal in 2016, taking bronze in the K1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
4/5 - Awards and honors
Fox earned a world championship in the ICF Kajak Slalom World Championships in 2017, as well as Canoeist of the Year and NSW Athlete of the Year. She also received the Cumberland Courier Junior Sports Star, NSWIS Junior Athlete of the Year, and the Pierre de Coubertin AOC award in 2010. She was nominated, Junior Canoeist of the Year by Australian Canoeing in 2009, 2010, and 2011. She was named Athlete of the Year at the 2014 AIS Sport Performance Awards. She was also named AIS Sport Performance Award Female Athlete of the Year in 2018.
5/5 - Crushing dog lover and athlete boyfriend
Fox fostered a greyhound and named that adorable dog, “Pink”; quite a name for a greyhound! According to her, “Pink loves to hoard underwear, nail files, carrots, and Airpods case.” Jess Fox is in a committed relationship with her French athlete boyfriend, Mathieu Biazizzo. The 30-year-old boyfriend is also a French slalom paddler who was the world cup champion in 2016.
