Lydia Lassila is an aerial freestyle skier who won the Gold Medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Lydia competed in 5 Winter Olympic Games – Salt Lake City in 2002, Turin in 2006, Vancouver in 2010 (winning Gold), Sochi in 2014 (winning Bronze) and PyeongChang in 2018.

Dual Olympic medallist and aerial skier Lydia entered the Australian history books following the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games as she became Australia’s first female winter athlete to compete at five Games.

Lydia is also Australia’s most-decorated female skier having won gold in 2010 and bronze four years later in Sochi – a title she shares with fellow aerial skier and dual medallist Alisa Camplin.

A former gymnast, Lydia made her Games debut in 2002 at Salt Lake City having only been skiing for two years. A water jump accident almost ruined her 2006 campaign but just 8 months later she headed to her second Games. It was in Torino where, after landing awkwardly, she blew her knee out and would again be forced off the snow.

Back and more determined than ever, 2009 saw her take out the World Cup title, setting her up as one of the favourites at the Vancouver 2010 Games and Lydia didn’t disappoint. She became Australia’s fifth Winter Olympic champion when her triple-twisting triple somersault in the final saw her claim the gold medal. Four years later she would return to the Olympic arena, following the birth of her first son Kai, and win bronze at the Sochi 2014 Games.