Mirjam Jäger

Mirjam Jaeger (German: Mirjam Jäger, ; born 9 November 1982 in Zürich) is a Swiss former freestyle skier. Now she concentrates on her modeling and sports broadcaster career.

Background and early years Mirjam Jaeger was born in Zurich, Switzerland, surrounded by Alps, where she learned to ski at an early age. Although she grew up skiing, she learned how to snowboard when she was still a kid, and snowboarding quickly became her new passion.

In 1991, she tried snowboarding and started doing regional halfpipe competitions at the age of 16, finding the first sponsors to be able to compete. She competed in one Halfpipe World Cup and a few Europa Cups in Snowboarding, and while balancing her academic studies, she was able to ski and snowboard. It wasn't until 2004 that she put aside her snowboard to focus on freeskiing only.

Competitions She gave her World Cup debut in skiing Halfpipe in 2004 in Les Contamines, France, where she finished in 6th place. Between 2006 and 2013 she's had 3 podium finishes in World Cups. Two 2nd places in Les Contamines, France in 2006 and 2008 and a 3rd place in Cardrona, New Zealand in 2013. Her best finishes in the overall Halfpipe World Cup Ranking are a 2nd place in the 2005/2006 season, a 5th place in the 2012/2013 season and the 4th place in the 2013/2014 season.

She also has two other important silver medals: one from the Winter X Games XII in Aspen, CO in 2008, and the other one from the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge, CO in 2011.

Half-pipe skiing made its Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where she reached the final and finished in eighth place.

In 2015, January, after getting injured in World Champs 2009, 2011 and 2013, she won the Bronze Medal at the FIS Feestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Kreischberg. In February she participated at the "Russian Freestyle Games", competing in both slopestyle and halfpipe, reaching 5th place in slopestyle and winning the halfpipe competition.

Mirjam Jäger retired from competition 24 March 2015.