Cooper Woods

Fast Facts

Sport: Freestyle Skiing
Event: Moguls
Olympic History: Beijing 2022
Highlights: 6th at Beijing 2022, 5th at 2022 Deer Valley World Cup
Coaches: Steve Desovich, Peter McNiel, Kate Blamey
Year Born: 2000
State Born: NSW

About Cooper

Cooper Woods started mogul skiing when he was 11 years-old, joining the Perisher Winter Sports Club, and dreamed of representing Australia at the Winter Olympic Games since he was 13.

With his mother Katrina Woods an Australian aerial skier and uncle Peter Topalovic, the legendary Perisher and Australian Moguls Team coach, Cooper was always destined to follow in their footsteps.

In 2017 the Pambula Beach boy from the NSW South Coast was selected to represent Australia at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan. That same year Cooper made his World Cup debut in Deer Valley, USA where he placed 24th in the dual moguls.

Leading into the 2018 Olympics Cooper took the opportunity to compete with the Australian Team for the entire World Cup tour. This experience not only gave the NSW athlete a taste of competing on the world stage, but also an insight into what it takes to be the best.

The following season Cooper became the first Australian male to win the US Selections competition which were held in Winter Park, USA. Winning this event was a pivotal moment in his career.

While Cooper continued to perform consistently across the 2019-20 season, falling just shy of a finals spot at World Cup events, he certainly came into his own the following season and showed the mogul skiing world he was one to watch.

After making his first World Cup final in Idre Fjall, Sweden during December 2020, Cooper finished 12th at the Deer Valley World Cup in January 2021.

The young gun got a start at his debut World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2021 where he finished in 15th place. Cooper finished the season ranked 17th in the world, which helped pave the way to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Cooper started off the Olympic year with a bang, recording three top-11 finishes. The best of his results, 5th on day one of a double header event at Deer Valley, set a new career best.

It was excellent preparation for Beijing 2022 as Cooper continued to shine, this time under the Olympic spotlight.

He did remarkably well to earn a spot in the super final and produced his best score of the night once he got there, 78.88, finishing 6th.

The then 21-year-old joined Dale Begg-Smith and Matt Graham as the only Australian men to make an Olympic moguls super final.