Fiona Hughes
| Fiona Hughes | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fiona-Elizabeth Hughes |
| Born | 5 March 1990 Huddersfield,  England |
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Ski club | Yorkshire Dales Cross Country Ski Club, England |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2009 World Championships 2010 Olympic Winter Games |
| Updated on 08 AUGUST 2014. | |
Fiona-Elizabeth Hughes (born 5 March 1990) is an English cross-country skier from Huddersfield.[1] She has competed in the World Cup since February 2010 and represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Hughes is the only female British cross-country skier competing at the 2010 Olympics.[1]
She finished 68th in the 10 km event at the 2010 Games while at the 2009 championships, Hughes finished 14th in the team sprint, 68th in the 10 km, 85th in the individual sprint, and was lapped in the 15 km mixed pursuit events. Her best World Cup finish was 60th in the individual sprint event at Canada in 2010.
She's currently reading Engineering at Queens' College, Cambridge.
References[]
- ^ a b Booth, Mel (16 February 2010). "Huddersfield's Fiona Hughes frustrated with 68th place finish in Winter Olympics cross-country skiing". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
External links[]
- Fiona-Elizabeth Hughes at the International Ski Federation
- Fiona Hughes at British Olympic Association Archived 30 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1990 births
- Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- English female cross-country skiers
- Living people
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Huddersfield
- Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
- Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade
- European cross-country skiing biography stubs
- British winter sports biography stubs