Margaux Mary Hackett (born 2 June 1999) is a New Zealand

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

who competes internationally. She represented

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in the women's

slopestyle Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes skiing, ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features. Points are scored for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks. Th ...

and

big air Big air is a high-injury-risk sports discipline where the competitor rides a vehicle, such as a motocross motorcycle, a skateboard, a snowboard, or a pair of skis, down a hill or ramp and performs aerial tricks after launching off very large jum ...

events at the

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, China.

Biography

Hackett was born and raised in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, regi ...

, France, to a New Zealand father, adventure tourism entrepreneur

A. J. Hackett Allan John "A. J." Hackett (born May 1958) is a New Zealand entrepreneur who popularised the extreme sport of bungee jumping, bungy jumping. He made a bungy jump from the Eiffel Tower in 1987 and founded the first commercial bungy site in 1988. ...

, and a French mother. She learnt to ski when she was four years old and, as a child, joined an alpine ski club in the French Alps. Hackett is based in

Wānaka Wānaka () is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. At the southern end of Lake Wānaka, it is at the start of the Clutha River and is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park. Wānaka ...

during the New Zealand winter and Manigod, France, during the Northern Hemisphere winter. She is coached by Snow Sports New Zealand high-performance freeski coach Hamish McDougall.

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* * * * * Living people 1999 births New Zealand female freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for New Zealand Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen People from Wānaka {{NewZealand-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub