James Machon (skier)

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James Machon
Personal information
NicknameMach
Halfpipe
ClubGB Freeski team
Coached byPat Sharples
Jamie Matthew
Updated on 17 February 2014.

James Machon (born 23 November 1990) is a

halfpipe, his first Olympics was the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
.

Biography

Machon was born on 23 November 1990, in

Leeds Metropolitan University.[3] He started skiing at the age of 6. Between the age of 6 and until he was 14, went on annual ski holidays with his family.[4] He began practising freestyle skiing in the Sheffield freestyle skiing park when he was 15 years old.[4] Half-pipe skiing is snow ski on a half-pipe. The sport is considered to be dangerous compared to other sports, and helmets are required to be worn during competitions. Half-pipe skiing has been part of the Winter X Games since 2002, and has been approved to be an official sport at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
, Russia.

In 2006 Machon entered his first British Championships, and in the period from 2009 to 2013 (inclusive), Machon won four consecutive British Halfpipe Championships.[4] At the start of the Olympic qualifying season, Machon was ranked in the top 15 by the Association of Freeskiing Professionals, a position he feels is his "greatest sporting achievement so far".[5] Shortly before the selection for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Machon was recovering from a severe[2] knee injury,[6] he had a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament, which kept him from competing for eight months;[2][7] it was torn in training in Austria.[3] Machon said that his competing after he tore his ligament was "looking virtually impossible", but he was happy he overcame the injury.[7]

Olympics

Machon's Olympic debut was at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,[4] which was also the first time skiing halfpipe had been at an Olympics.[8] He competed on 18 February 2014[9] in the halfpipe, an event in freestyle skiing.[4] He finished 23rd.[10]

Family

Machon's brother, Robert, also skis competitively, and is a member of the England Team.[7]

References

  1. ^ "James Machon". GB Free Ski. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Freestyler James Machon living Olympic dream in Sochi". The Derbyshire times. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  3. ^
    Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original
    on 17 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "James Machon". Team GB. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Ski halfpipe champion James Machon hopes to be on the podium in Sochi". Olympic.org. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  6. ^ Fidler, Richard (22 January 2014). "Winter Olympics: Sheffield's Woods, Machon and Summerhayes named for Sochi". The Star. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  7. ^ a b c "Graduate and skiing champ set for Winter Olympics". Leeds Metropolitan University. 30 January 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Sochi hope Machon still inspired by Ennis Olympic gold". Team GB. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  9. ^ Russell, Sophie (17 February 2014). "Sochi Olympics 2014: Day 11 Preview – Murray Buchan, James Machon and Elise Christie". International Business Times. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  10. ^ Barretto, Lawrence; Lewis, Aimee (18 February 2014). "Live Reporting". BBC. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
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