Cheryl Maas (born 28 September 1984) is a Dutch snowboarder, who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, finishing 11th at the halfpipe. She also competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, finishing 20th in slopestyle and in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang where she finished 23rd in slopestyle and 20th in big air. She started snowboarding in 1993. In 2004, she played in the snowboard movie Dropstitch.
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| Born | 28 September 1984 Uden, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 154 lb (70 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboarding | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cheryl Maas took home a gold medal during the women’s big air event.
She had an accident in the Winter X Games 13 slopestyle track while training before the event.
Personal life
editCheryl Maas lived in Oslo and is married to Natalie Hatfield from Boise, Idaho in February 2021. Cheryl has two daughters called Lara and Mila Kjeldaas, with her ex-wife Stine Brun Kjeldaas. [1][2] After Maas qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics,[3] she criticized the International Olympic Committee for hosting the Olympics in Russia, which had hostile legislation surrounding LGBT relationships.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Cheryl Maas Interview | CELTEK | BLOG". Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "Cheryl Maas profile". Sochi 2014. Archived from the original on 6 August 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Cheryl Maas Real Talk Interview". Pyramid Magazine. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ Joldersma, Anne (14 October 2013). "'IOC moet beter nadenken waar het de Spelen organiseert'". NUsport (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 October 2013.
