{{Short description|Swiss freestyle skier (born 1992)}} {{COI|date=September 2021}} {{Distinguish|Fanny Cochrane Smith}} {{Infobox skier | name = Fanny Smith | image = Fanny Smith 2011.jpg | caption = Fanny Smith in 2011 | nationality = {{SWI}} | birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1992|5|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Aigle, Switzerland | height = | club = Villars-Gryon | seasons = 15 – (2008–present) | wins =29<!--29 as of 13 March 2021--> | teamwins = 1<!--1 as of 28 February 2021--> | totalpodiums = 67<!--67 as of 21 January 2023--> | teampodiums =1<!--1 as of 28 February 2021--> | individual_starts =131<!--131 as of 22 January 2023--> | team_starts = 2<!--2 as of 15 December 2021--> | wcoveralls = 0 – (3rd in 2019, 2020) | wctitles = 3 – Ski cross (2013, 2019, 2021) | updated = 22 January 2023 | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Women's freestyle skiing}} {{Medal|Country|{{SUI}}}} {{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}} {{Medal|Silver|2026 Milano Cortina|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Bronze|2018 Pyeongchang|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Bronze|2022 Beijing|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Competition|World Championships}} {{Medal|Gold|2013 Voss|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Gold|2025 Engadin|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Gold|2025 Engadin|Mixed team ski cross}} {{Medal|Silver|2017 Sierra Nevada|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Silver|2019 Deer Valley|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Silver|2021 Idre|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Bronze|2015 Kreischberg|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Bronze|2023 Bakuriani|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Competition|Winter X Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2011 Aspen|Ski cross}} {{Medal|Competition|New Zealand Winter Games}} {{Medal|Gold|2011 Cardrona|Ski cross}} }}
'''Fanny Smith''' (born 20 May 1992) is a Swiss freestyle skier. She represented Switzerland at the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing/athletes/fanny-smith_ath1029019tT.html |title=Fanny Smith, Freestyle Skiing |publisher=Vancouver 2010 |access-date=23 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223231928/http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing/athletes/fanny-smith_ath1029019tT.html |archive-date=23 February 2010 }}</ref> As of January 2023, she has 29 victories and 67 podiums on the World Cup circuit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/613.html?sector=FS&competitorid=134641&type=result&bt=next&limit=20&bt=prev&rec_start=0|title=Fanny Smith, Results|publisher=FIS Ski|accessdate=26 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605011604/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/613.html?sector=FS&competitorid=134641&type=result&bt=next&limit=20&bt=prev&rec_start=0|archive-date=5 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1 = Knight | first1 = Matthew | last2 = Macfarlane | first2 = Christina | title = Fanny Smith: Ski cross champion defies odds in quest for Olympic gold | publisher = CNN | date = 6 February 2014 | url = https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/06/sport/fanny-smith-ski-cross-sochi-olympics/ | access-date = 23 February 2018 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202030237/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/06/sport/fanny-smith-ski-cross-sochi-olympics/ | archive-date = 2 February 2017}}</ref> She won gold at the World Championships in Voss in 2013. Smith won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.<ref name=olympedia>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/118972 |website=Olympedia |title=Fanny Smith |access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref>
==Career== Born in Aigle to an American father and an English mother, she was brought up in the Swiss ski resort of Villars. Smith has been skiing since the age of two. At the age of 14, she was selected into the Swiss National Educational Performance Center of Brig.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |author=Matthew Knight and Christina Macfarlane |title=Fanny Smith: Ski cross champion defies odds in quest for Olympic gold |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/06/sport/fanny-smith-ski-cross-sochi-olympics/index.html |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=CNN |date=6 February 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref> When she graduated in 2009, there was no Swiss junior ski cross program, so with the assistance of family and sponsors, Smith created her own program. Smith started to train with Guillaume Nantermod,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fanny Smith |url=https://www.redbull.com/in-hi/athlete/fanny-smith |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=Red Bull |language=hi}}</ref> the Boardercross World Champion. After their partnership immediately showed signs of success, they were integrated into the Swiss National Team.
At just 17 years old, Smith secured her first World Cup podium position with second place at the Lake Placid World Cup in January 2010. Her first win came a year later in Innichen/San Candido. She took two more second places in the 2010–11 season but fell and tore her anterior cruciate ligament, forcing her out of competition for 11 months.<ref name=":0" />
She returned to competition aged 22 and dominated the 2012–13 season, winning the first three races of the year, taking four victories, on the podium in six out of the ten races, and won the Crystal Globe as the world's top-ranked ski cross racer. To top her return to ski cross, she took the gold medal at the World Championships in Voss Municipality, Norway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fanny SMITH - Freestyle Skiing |work=Beijing 2022 Olympics |url=https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/freestyle-skiing/athlete-profile-n1049857-fanny-smith.htm |access-date=2022-02-28 |archive-date=2022-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228001207/https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/freestyle-skiing/athlete-profile-n1049857-fanny-smith.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The 2013–2014 season began well, with Smith securing second place in the first race in Nakiska. She won the title in Innichen and was beaten into second place in a photo finish in Kreischberg by Ophélie David. Smith finished in second place in the 2014 overall World Cup standings.
In the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Smith won the bronze medal in the women's ski cross competition.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strong |first=Gregory |date=2018-02-22 |title=Canada's Kelsey Serwa wins gold, Brittany Phelan grabs silver in women's skicross at Winter Olympics |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/2018-pyeongchang-winter-olympics-womens-freestyle-skiing-skicross/article38079104/ |access-date=2022-02-27}}</ref>
==2022 Winter Olympics bronze medal controversy==
In the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Smith initially finished third place in the women's ski cross final and thought she had won the bronze medal. However, she was demoted to fourth place after receiving a yellow card as Smith was deemed to have moved her left ski directly into the line of her competitor, Daniela Maier of Germany, who finished fourth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roundup of Olympic gold medals from Thursday, Feb. 17 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/roundup-olympic-gold-medals-thursday-feb-17-82950250 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>
Nine days after the race, Smith was promoted to third place after a successful appeal with the International Ski Federation (FIS),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news-multimedia/news-2022/change-in-2022-olympic-women-s-ski-cross-results|title=Change in 2022 Olympic Women's Ski Cross Results|publisher=International Ski Federation (FIS)|date=26 February 2022|access-date=26 February 2022|archive-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226103743/https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news-multimedia/news-2022/change-in-2022-olympic-women-s-ski-cross-results|url-status=dead}}</ref> which was reflected on the FIS website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=FS&raceid=14286|title=Olympic Winter Games Beijing Women's Ski Cross Official Results|publisher=International Ski Federation (FIS)|date=26 February 2022|access-date=26 February 2022}}</ref> The FIS stated that Smith should have been issued a warning instead of a yellow card.
Despite the publications in some media about awarding of Smith with a bronze medal as a result of the appeal,<ref>{{Cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=2022-02-26 |title=Olympic ski cross medal changed on appeal nine days after race |url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/02/26/fanny-smith-ski-cross-olympic-medal-appeal/ |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=OlympicTalk {{!}} NBC Sports |language=en-US}}</ref> FIS has no right to decide on the return and redistribution of medals, as this issue is in the exclusive competence of the IOC, therefore, in its decision, the FIS Appeals Commission did not mention any words about the medals and their redistribution, and the IOC has the last word in this issue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsingermany.com/dispute-medal-sport-sz-de/|title=Dispute medal|publisher=News in Germany|date=29 March 2022|access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref> On 13 December 2022 the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced an agreement to share the third place between Smith and Maier with two bronze medals allocated by the IOC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Media_Release_8741.pdf|title=Court of Arbitration for Sport Media Release|date=13 December 2022|access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/12/13/olympic-ski-cross-medal-fanny-smith-daniela-maier/|title=In Olympic ski race, second bronze medal given 10 months after Games|date=2022-12-13|access-date=2022-12-13|website=OlympicTalk {{!}} NBC Sports |language=en-US}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{FIS freestyle skier}} * [https://www.swiss-ski.ch/athletinnen/detail/fanny-smith-ski-alpine-39844/ Fanny Smith] at Swiss Ski {{in lang|de}} * [https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/athlete-details/48691 Fanny Smith] at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics * [https://web.archive.org/web/20220228001207/https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/freestyle-skiing/athlete-profile-n1049857-fanny-smith.htm Fanny Smith] at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived) * {{Olympics.com}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{InterSportStats}} * [https://www.swissolympicteam.ch/de/olympische-missionen/olympische-spiele/peking-2022/team/athletenportrait?athleteId=8381 Fanny Smith] at the Swiss Olympic Association {{in lang|de}} * {{Official website|https://www.fanny-smith.com/en}}
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