George Murphy

Fast Facts

Sport: Freestyle Skiing
Event: Moguls
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Making my first finals at a World Cup (13th, Ruka, 2025)
Year Born: 2003

About George

George Murphy is an Australian mogul skier who has built his international career through steady progression on the FIS World Cup circuit, including two top 20 results leading into his Olympic debut at the Milano Cortina 2026 Games.  

Raised around snow from the very beginning, George started skiing at the age of one and spent his early childhood living in Niseko, Japan, a background that helped shape both his comfort on skis and his love of the sport. He is half Japanese and describes those years in Niseko (from birth to age eight) as where he properly learned to ski.  

George’s move into mogul skiing came later, at around age 10, after an instructor noticed his technique when he skied a mogul course for fun at Thredbo. He followed that encouragement into the interschools competition, quickly finding that the mix of technical skiing, speed and aerial skills suited him - something that has remained at the heart of his approach as he has climbed through the ranks.  

A product of Sydney’s northern beaches, George’s hometown is Manly and he attended Redlands School, where he was a school skiing captain and graduated in 2021. He has also been part of the Perisher Winter Sports Club pathway and is aligned with the NSW Institute of Sport program. Matt Graham is his biggest inspiration, from watching how hard he trains during the domestic season and then competing alongside him on the World Cup tour.   

George’s first major senior global milestone was at the 2023 FIS Freestyle World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. There, he finished 26th in the men’s moguls and an impressive 14th in the men’s dual moguls, an early sign that he could handle head-to-head racing as well as single-run finals pressure. In the lead-up to those championships, he raced eight World Cup events and recorded a personal best World Cup finish of 20th at Deer Valley in the United States.  

He continued to develop his international profile across the following northern winter, underlining his capability in duals on the North American Cup circuit. In February 2024, he secured back-to-back podium performances in dual moguls, bronze in Deer Valley, then silver at Apex in Canada. 

Domestically, George has also continued to show he belongs near the pointy end of the Australian moguls scene, including podium finishes at Perisher on the Australian New Zealand Cup circuit in August 2024. He 

That upward trajectory carried into the Olympic qualification period. In February 2025 at the World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan, George produced a personal best World Cup result of 13th in moguls (with qualification results used after finals were cancelled), then placed 21st in the dual moguls the next day. He has described cracking into his first World Cup final as a significant breakthrough, one that took three seasons of persistence on the World Cup tour.  

At the 2025 World Championships in St Moritz (Engadin), he finished 22nd in moguls and 23rd in dual moguls, gaining valuable championship experience in a deep field alongside Australia’s other leading male skiers.  

George started the 2025-26 World Cup season in early December with 20th at Ruka, Finland, his second-best career placing to date. But the next day for the second World Cup in Ruka, he came unstuck in qualifying and did not finish.  To start the new year, he finished 19th at Val St. Come (CAN) in the moguls and 36th the following day in dual moguls. In the final World Cup during the qualification period, he was 42nd at Waterville Valley Resort (USA). He then travelled to Ruka with the Australian team for a training camp where he would learn that he had done enough to be selected on the Olympic Team for Milano Cortina 2026. 

Away from the start gate, George is coached by Kate Blamey and credits former coach Sora Yoshikawa, who worked with him from ages 11 to 14, as a key early influence in sparking his ambition to pursue moguls at a high level.  

George is driven by daily improvement; his love of skiing and the satisfaction of visible progress keep him working hard year-round. When he’s not training, George enjoys surfing at Manly, spending time with mates, shooting hoops, and has a knack for solving a Rubik’s Cube. Asked what he would tell his younger self, his message is simple - ‘don’t give up, and don’t be afraid to try something new, especially when it comes to learning new tricks’.