Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi


Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi is a French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1979 to 1996.

Career

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K1 event in Atlanta in 1996.
Fox-Jerusalmi also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with eight golds and two silvers.
She won the overall World Cup title three consecutive times between 1989 and 1991.
In 2018, she won the Coach of the Year at the AIS Sport Performance Awards.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenueaPositionEvent
198915 Aug 1989Augsburg2ndK1
198920 Aug 1989Tacen3rdK1
19901 Jul 1990Wausau1stK1
19901990Savage River1stK1
199018 Aug 1990Bourg St.-Maurice2ndK1
199130 Jun 1991Mezzana1stK1
19917 Jul 1991Augsburg2ndK1
199110 Jul 1991Reals1stK1
19911 Sep 1991Wausau1stK1
199216 Feb 1992Murupara1stK1
199223 Feb 1992Launceston3rdK1
199325 Jul 1993Lofer2ndK1
19931 Aug 1993Augsburg1stK1
199331 Aug 1993Ocoee2ndK1
19951 Oct 1995Ocoee3rdK1

Personal life

Her husband, Richard, competed for Great Britain in slalom canoeing, and later coached Australia in the same event. Fox-Jerusalmi's husband is also an executive officer in the International Canoe Federation. Their daughter, Jessica won gold in the girls' K1 slalom event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. Competing for Australia in the 2012 Olympics, Jessica won the K1 slalom silver medal. Her younger daughter Noemie is also a slalom canoeist. Myriam's sister-in-law Rachel Crosbee also competed in canoe slalom.
Fox-Jerusalmi is Jewish.