Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Jessica Fox
Personal information
NicknameFoxy
NationalityAustralian, French
Born (1994-06-11) 11 June 1994
Marseille, France
Height166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Websitewww.jessicafox.com.au/
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCanoe slalom
EventK1, C1, Kayak cross
ClubPenrith Valley Canoeing
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 1 2
World Championships 14 5 3
Youth Olympic Games 1 0 0
U23 World Championships 8 1 4
Junior World Championships 4 0 0
Total 30 7 9
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
2020 TokyoC1
2024 ParisK1
2024 ParisC1
2012 LondonK1
2016 Rio de JaneiroK1
2020 TokyoK1
World Championships
2013 PragueC1
2013 PragueC1 team
2014 Deep Creek LakeC1
2014 Deep Creek LakeK1
2015 LondonC1
2015 LondonC1 team
2017 PauK1
2018 Rio de JaneiroC1
2018 Rio de JaneiroK1
2019 La Seu d'UrgellC1 team
2021 BratislavaKayak cross
2022 AugsburgKayak cross
2023 LondonK1
2023 LondonK1 team
2017 PauC1 team
2019 La Seu d'UrgellC1
2019 La Seu d'UrgellK1
2022 AugsburgC1
2022 AugsburgK1
2010 TacenC1
2017 PauK1 team
2023 LondonC1
Oceania Championships
2025 PenrithC1
2025 PenrithK1
2025 PenrithKayak cross
Youth Olympic Games
2010 SingaporeK1
U23 World Championships
2012 WausauC1 team
2013 Liptovský MikulášC1
2014 PenrithC1
2014 PenrithK1
2015 Foz do IguaçuK1
2016 KrakówC1
2016 KrakówK1
2017 BratislavaK1
2015 Foz do IguaçuK1 team
2013 Liptovský MikulášC1 team
2014 PenrithK1 team
2016 KrakówC1 team
2017 BratislavaK1 team
Junior World Championships
2010 FoixC1
2010 FoixK1
2012 WausauC1
2012 WausauK1

Jessica Esther Fox OAM (born 11 June 1994) is a French-born Australian Olympic and world champion slalom canoeist.

Fox made her Olympic debut at 18 years of age in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she won a silver medal in the K1 event. She won a bronze medal in the same event four years later in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and again at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, before finally winning the gold medal in the K1 event in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Fox is the sole Olympic champion in the C1 event, having won the gold medal in Tokyo at the 2020 Summer Olympics when the event debuted at the Olympic Games, and again finishing first at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Her six olympic medals make her the most decorated canoe slalom paddler, male or female, in Olympic history. She also won a gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in the K1 event.

Fox has won 22 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with 14 golds (C1: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018; K1: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2023; C1 team: 2013, 2015, 2019; K1 team: 2023; Kayak cross: 2021, 2022), five silvers (C1: 2019, 2022; K1: 2019, 2022; C1 team: 2017) and three bronzes (C1: 2010, 2023; K1 team: 2017). Her ten gold medals in individual events make her the most successful paddler, male or female, in World Championship history.

Fox has won the overall World Cup title seven times in the C1 class (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024) and five times in the K1 class (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023). She has finished the year as the World No. 1 in C1 12 times, including an uninterrupted streak from 2013 to 2023, and World No. 1 in K1 eight times.

Fox, a ten-time individual world champion, twelve-time World Cup champion and three-time individual Olympic champion, is considered the greatest individual paddler of all time.

During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Fox was elected to the IOC Athletes' Commission as one of four new members until the Brisbane 2032 Games.