Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi


Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi is a former French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1979 to 1996.

Career

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K1 event in Atlanta in 1996.
Fox-Jerusalmi also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with eight golds and two silvers.
She won the overall World Cup title three consecutive times between 1989 and 1991.
In 2018, she won the Coach of the Year at the AIS Sport Performance Awards.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
198915 August 1989Augsburg2ndK1
198920 August 1989Tacen3rdK1
19901 July 1990Wausau1stK1
19901990Savage River1stK1
199018 August 1990Bourg St.-Maurice2ndK1
199130 June 1991Mezzana1stK1
19917 July 1991Augsburg2ndK1
199110 July 1991Reals1stK1
19911 September 1991Wausau1stK1
199216 February 1992Murupara1stK1
199223 February 1992Launceston3rdK1
199325 July 1993Lofer2ndK1
19931 August 1993Augsburg1stK1
199331 August 1993Ocoee2ndK1
19951 October 1995Ocoee3rdK1

Personal life

Her husband, Richard, competed for Great Britain in slalom canoeing, and later coached Australia in the same event. Fox-Jerusalmi's husband is also an executive officer in the International Canoe Federation. Their daughter, Jessica Fox won gold in the girls' K1 slalom event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, four Olympic medals, and sixteen World Championship medals as of 2022. Competing for Australia in the 2012 Olympics, Jessica won the K1 slalom silver medal. Her younger daughter Noemie Fox is also a slalom canoeist. Myriam's sister-in-law Rachel Crosbee also competed in canoe slalom.
Fox-Jerusalmi is Jewish.