Jakara Anthony

Fast Facts

Sport: Freestyle Skiing
Event: Moguls
Olympic History: PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022 (gold)
Highlights: Gold at Beijing 2022, 2019 World Championships silver medal, 26x World Cup gold medals
Coaches: Peter McNiel, Kate Blamey
Year Born: 1998

About Jakara

Reigning Olympic moguls champion Jakara Anthony takes great form and the world number one ranking into Milano Cortina 2026. She has won the last three World Cups of the season, and her career total of 26 World Cup wins makes her Australia’s most successful freestyle skier (surpassing Jacqui Cooper’s 25). 

Milano Cortina will be her third Olympics (4th in 2018), and she will also compete in the Dual Moguls with this event added to the Olympic programme.

Born in Cairns, Queensland, and raised on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, Jakara’s pathway to moguls began early. Her parents met on the slopes at Mt. Buller, and by four she was on snow; by 11 she had joined Team Buller Riders, spending winters training and competing while attending school on the mountain. 

A gifted junior who was inspired by Australian Olympian Britt Cox, Jakara rose rapidly through national ranks, earned selection to the Australian Development Team in 2012, and made her World Cup debut as a 16-year-old at Deer Valley in 2015. She cracked the top 10 in 2017 at Tazawako, signalling she was ready for the world stage. At PyeongChang 2018 she placed fourth in women’s moguls, the best Olympic result by an Australian female moguls skier to that point, and the launchpad for a senior career defined by precision turns and progressive jumps.  

The breakthrough season followed quickly. In 2019, Anthony won silver at the World Championships in Deer Valley and captured her first World Cup victory at Lake Placid, underlining her arrival among the elite. 

Jakara’s 2021–22 campaign was historic. She won every round on the way to Olympic gold at Beijing 2022, becoming Australia’s first winter Olympic champion since 2010 and the first Australian to top an Olympic moguls qualification. Her final featured a “cork 720 mute” on the top air, the first time a woman landed the trick in Olympic competition, a hallmark of her commitment to progression. She closed the northern winter by securing both the overall Moguls and Dual Moguls Crystal Globes.  

Across 2022–23, Jakara defended her place at the top, adding multiple World Cup wins and reclaiming the single moguls Crystal Globe. 

What followed in 2023–24 was one of the greatest seasons in any winter sport. She won 14 World Cup events from 16 starts, a moguls single‑season record, and swept all three Crystal Globes: single moguls, dual moguls and the combined overall. The FIS season finale in Valmalenco confirmed the “moguls hat‑trick”, while media at home and abroad hailed the scale of her dominance. 

The 2024–25 northern winter began with more milestones. Jakara’s silver at the World Cup opener in Ruka was her 42nd career podium, the most by any Australian winter athlete, and a week later she won in Idre Fjäll for her 23rd career World Cup victory.   

Then tragedy struck; shortly afterwards, she suffered a broken collarbone in training in Sweden and underwent surgery in Oslo. She returned to Australia to rehabilitate, opting for a measured comeback rather than rushing back to competition. 

Her patience throughout recovery, as she watched her teammates and rivals compete on the World Cup tour, has paid off, and when she returned to competition for the 2025-26 World Cup season, she was straight back on the top of the podium. 

On 8 December 2025, she won the Ruka World Cup moguls with a score of 79.89, almost a year to the day since her injury. At Val St. Come in Quebec, Canada, the Moguls competition was decided on qualification results. Jakara’s qualifying run of 79.83 points was enough to comfortably win. In the Dual Moguls, the Australian placed sixth in the only Dual Moguls World Cup ahead of the Olympics, due to weather interruptions. 

In the final Moguls World Cup competition before the Olympics, at the Waterville Valley Resort in the United States, Jakara produced a fast and clean run that included a cork 7 and backflip mute grab to score 81.17 and win her 26th World Cup gold by over three points. 

Jakara has studied exercise and sport science at Deakin University and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2022 for service to sport following her Olympic triumph. And for the self-described perfectionist, she finds the biggest challenge of her sport is ‘learning to deal with the fact there is never perfection’.