Freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes named January's Sportswoman of the Month
Last Updated: 10/02/15 2:54pm
Katie Summerhayes: January's Sportswoman of the Month
Freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes is the winner of the Sportswoman of the Month award for January.
The 19-year-old topped the Sky Sports poll with 35 per cent of the vote, ahead of speedskater Elise Christie on 25% and Women’s Rugby World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi who finished third on 17%.
Summerhayes became the first British competitor in history to win a Freestyle World Ski and Snowboarding Championships medal after claiming silver in the ski slopestyle final in Kreischberg, Austria last month.
Last year, the Sheffield skier won slopestyle gold at the World Junior Championships in Italy. She finished seventh in the same event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics two months earlier.
