Discipline: Freestyle Moguls
Olympic Participation: Beijing 2022
Medal awarded in: 2022

Sophie Ash is a mogul skier, who represented Australia at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Sophie started skiing when she was two years-old, transitioning to mogul skiing at the age of 14. She was also a trampolinist for a number of years while still skiing. 

Sophie began her moguls career in the 2011 Australia-New Zealand Cup (ANC) at Perisher. She finished 10th in 2012 and 15th in 2013 at successive ANC events.

Sophie’s first of many World Cup appearances was in 2017 in Ruka, Finland. A breakthrough came in 2018 where she achieved two top-15 finishes – 14th in Calgary (Canada) and 13th at Deer Valley (USA).

While on the Nor-Am circuit she landed 7th at Mount Werner, USA in February 2019.
An encouraging result for Sophie on the lead in to the Beijing Winter Olympics was 13th at Mount Tremblant, Canada in January 2022.

Once at the Games her best run came at a critical time, on her final qualifying attempt which scored 72.20 to get her in final one. Sophie was eliminated from the competition in final one and placed 16th overall.

Outside of sport, Sophie is a gifted animator and competed her third-year production with a short film about her experience at the FIS (International Ski Federation) Freestyle World Championships in Deer Valley USA where she finished 15th in moguls and 18th in dual moguls.

The film, called Start Gate, has won awards and been screened in domestic and international film festivals.

Sophie’s younger sister, Gabi Ash, is an aerial skier. Together they made their Olympic debut at Beijing 2022. They are the first Australian sisters to compete on the same Australian Winter Olympic Team.