Kenza Tazi
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| Born | 6 February 1996 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||
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Kenza Tazi (Arabic: كنزة التازي; born 6 February 1996) is an American-born Moroccan alpine skier. She competed for Morocco at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom.
Early life
Kenza Tazi was born on 6 February 1996 in Boston, Massachusetts to Moroccan parents. Tazi began to ski at the age of three, joining her first ski club when she turned 12. She later explained that "every year my family took me skiing for one week in winter and my love of the sport grew from there"[citation needed].
Skiing career
After competing in the international skiing circuit, Tazi ranked high enough to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[1] This followed her recovery from a cruciate ligament injury suffered a year prior at Ancelle.[2] She is Moroccan, born in the US, with her talents she was selected to represent her country Morocco at the 2014 Winter Olympics, alongside fellow skier Adam Lamhamedi.[1]
Tazi admitted that she was not expecting to win medals, saying "I'll try to enjoy myself. I have neither the technique, nor the experience, to win a medal at this major sporting event, so I have different goals. I'm here primarily to ski and to improve my abilities."[2] She placed 62nd overall in the women's giant slalom,[3] and 45th in the slalom.[4]
Following the Olympics, she was selected as a member of a delegation who met with President of the United States Barack Obama, and went on to attend university at Imperial College London where she studies physics.[5] In October 2016, she co-wrote an article in Astronomy & Geophysics discussing the Space Seeds project run by the UK Space Agency.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Les Frères Lamhamedi Et Kenza Tazi, Ambassadeurs Du Maroc À Sotchi". Sport Maroc (in French). 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ a b Darwish, Mohamed (10 February 2014). "Kenza Tazi: "Nous n'avons pas rencontre Benkirane a Sotchi"". Le 360 (in French). Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "Giant Slalom Women". Olympic.org. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "Slalom Women". Olympic.org. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "Kenza Tazi". Imperial College Union. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ Fernando, Benjamin; Wade, Jessica; Tazi, Kenza (1 October 2016). "Sowing seeds from spaceOUTREACH". Astronomy & Geophysics. 57 (5): 5.11–5.11. doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atw176. ISSN 1366-8781.
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