Brodie Summers

1993 - 

Discipline: Freestyle Moguls
Olympic Participation: Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022
Achievements: Silver dre Fjäll World Cup 2020, Silver Thaiwoo World Cup 2017, Bronze Deer Valley Dual Moguls World Cup 2017
Medal Awarded: 2022
 


Growing up, Brodie got his first taste for skiing at Mount Buller where he would spend the occasional weekend trip skiing with his family.
It wasn't until 2006, after watching a teammate win the moguls event at an interschools competition, Brodie decided to join the Team Buller Riders, where his passion for mogul skiing ignited.

Seeing Dale Begg-Smith win gold at Torino 2006 kept him motivated to pursue his career. 

Brodie's natural talent, hard work and determination saw him progress in the sport quickly and he was regularly seen on the podium at state and national events. After being offered a NSW Institute of Sport scholarship in 2010, Brodie made his World Cup debut at Calgary, Canada in 2011.
From there, Brodie continued to impress and in 2013 he had a breakthrough season when he posted two top-10 performances at the World Championships in Voss, Norway.
He qualified for his debut Olympic Games in 2014 after producing two strong World Cup results just prior to Sochi 2014. Brodie qualified best of the three Australians for final one in Sochi, but then missed out on a spot in final two by 0.1 of a point.
had another breakthrough season during the 2016-17 international tour when he claimed his first World Cup medal. It wasn't long after his bronze medal at Deer Valley, USA that he went one better and earned himself the silver medal at the World Cup finals in Thaiwoo, China.

At the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, Brodie was the best placed Australian male in an extremely competitive field, finishing 11th.
In September 2017 Brodie unfortunately ruptured his ACL during a training session in Australia. With the 2018 Winter Olympic Games less then 5 months away, Brodie undertook a relentless rehab program to give him the best shot at his second Olympic Games. Months of hard work allowed Brodie to be cleared to compete at PyeongChang 2018. However, in the final training session his knee injury flared up and it prevented him from participating in the event.

Following a year of disrupted training due to the pandemic, Brodie recorded his best World Cup season to date, finishing the 2020-21 tour ranked fifth in the world. Many top-10 performances, including a second-place finish in Idre Fjall, Sweden, resulted in Brodie qualifying for his third Olympic Games.
He was the best Aussie in the qualifying rounds at Beijing 2022 (11th), finishing just shy of the top 10 automatically qualifying for final one. Regardless, he made his way into the final with Cooper Woods through second chance qualifying which marked the first time two Australians had reached the 12-man final together.

Brodie's 10th place finish in the finals was a Personal Best Olympic achievement. After his Beijing performance he was voted in as one of 10 members to the AOC Athletes' Commission.
During his career he competed in 53 World Cups and 4 World Championships.

Summers credits Peter McNeil an his most influential coach, who he spent the bulk of his formative years with as a junior athlete. "To have him as part of the coaching staff on the national team is a dream come true for both of us."

 

 

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