Discipline
Para Alpine Skiing
- Giant Slalom (VI) Guide
- Slalom (VI) Guide
Paralympic Games Attended
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Milano Cortina 2026
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Sporting Career Highlight
in 2024 Georgia and I received our first World Cup podium in Veysonaz Switzerland. In the following year we ended up achieving the same result. Moments like those truly show all our long hours of hard work truly pay off.
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Ethan Jackson was a national level slalom and giant slalom skier in the winters of 2016 and 2017, securing a best placing of eighth in an FIS competition at Mount Buller. He had been training since he was 10, but repeated injuries led to early retirement.
Still keen to compete, Ethan, who was coaching at the time, became interested when he heard that Paralympic skier Patrick Jensen needed a new guide after he had represented Australia at the Beijing Games. Ethan and Patrick joined forces for the 2022/23 World Cup season.
A year later, Ethan began guiding Georgia Gunew and their partnership has since blossomed, including their first podium result at a World Cup event at Veysonnaz in Switzerland in 2024. Further encouraging results have put them on track to represent Australia at the Milano Cortina Paralympics.
Ethan, who studies law and economics at university, said guiding was not the direction he envisioned his sporting career would head.
“However, I get to compete in my sport at such a high level in such a wonderfully different capacity,” he said.
“I’m truly grateful for this opportunity and for the honour to strive for greatness with Georgia.”
