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| - Torah (Jane) Bright (born December 27 1986, Cooma, Australia) is an Australian snowboarder. She turned pro at age 14 and finished fifth in snowboarding for Australia at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She is a committed Mormon and trains in Salt Lake City, Utah She finished 30th overall at the 2005 World Championships in Whistler, Canada and was runner up for the World Cup title during the 2003/04 season. Bright is the snowboarding face of Roxy, a co brand of Australian surfing company Quiksilver. Her other sponsors include Salomon and Boost Mobile.
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| - Torah (Jane) Bright (born December 27 1986, Cooma, Australia) is an Australian snowboarder. She turned pro at age 14 and finished fifth in snowboarding for Australia at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She is a committed Mormon and trains in Salt Lake City, Utah She finished 30th overall at the 2005 World Championships in Whistler, Canada and was runner up for the World Cup title during the 2003/04 season. She contested only two World Cup events during season 2004/05 and both were at the 2006 Winter Olympic venue of Bardonecchia in February, but collected a bronze medal on both of these occasions, qualifying for selection on the Australian Olympic team. Also adding to her impressive resume she scored a silver medal at the 2006 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, and returned the following year, on the eve of Australia Day 2007, to win the gold medal in the women's snowboard superpipe. She is the first Australian snowboarder to ever win gold at the Winter X Games (11), beating Winter Olympic medalists Gretchen Bleiler and Hannah Teter. Her most recent success was at the 2007 Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open in the women's halfpipe, taking a first place giving her back-to-back wins in two consecutive competitions. This with her respectable 6th in the Slopestyle contest saw her enter the Ticket to Ride (TTR) Top 10 for the first time in her career at 6th. At the 2007 World Super Pipe Championships in Park City, Utah, Bright won first place, edging out 2002 Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark. The following week at the US Open in Stratton Vermont she took third place in halfpipe. She also was named Burton Global Open Champion at the US Open bringing home $100,000 for that title. Bright is the snowboarding face of Roxy, a co brand of Australian surfing company Quiksilver. Her other sponsors include Salomon and Boost Mobile. She is coached by her older brother, Ben Bright. Torah has a younger sister Abi Bright who is also an up-and-coming snowboarder who competes in events as well. Torah's older sister Rowena Bright competed in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Born to parents Peter and Marion Bright, Torah Jane is the second youngest in the family of five Bright siblings. She grew up in Cooma Australia at the base of the Snowy Mountains and initially started out as a downhill ski racer. When older brother Ben picked up snowboarding and passed it on to his younger sister, Torah has said, "I never looked back."
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