Jessie Diggins is an American cross-country skier. She and teammate Kikkan Randall won the United States’ first ever cross-country skiing gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the team sprint in 2018.
Jessie Diggins: Glitter| Biography| Workout| Family| Wiki
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Glitter:
For the first time in about a year and a half (that I can remember, anyways) I raced on hard wax classic skis instead of klister! Wow. Climate change is a scary, scary thing and when it rained 3 days before the World Cup opener – in late November this close to the Arctic Circle.
I was pretty nervous for what the season would look like. But luckily for us, it snowed and we got to race in real wintery conditions. Which made all of us struggle to remember how to kick in soft, new-snow tracks!
Biography:
Diggins was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Afton, Minnesota. She has one sister, Mackenzie. Diggins began skiing at age 4. She showed prowess for skiing at age 11 when she started competing against older children. Diggins graduated from Stillwater Area High School in 2010.
Diggins competed for the Stillwater Area High School cross-country ski team. In 2008, Diggins was the top-ranked girls individual cross-country skier in the Minnesota high school rankings. She fell out of the state rankings in 2009 when she competed and won the United States Junior National Sprint title on March 9 of that year.
Workout:
Nordic skiing is one of the world’s toughest outdoor sports. It requires extreme cardiovascular fitness, endurance, full-body muscular strength, speed, and coordination—often in harsh winter conditions.
So when the Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins announced in May that she was going to lead a live core workout on Instagram for everyone stuck training at home, we knew we were in for it.
Family:
So, who is Jessie Diggins’ partner? Her soon-to-be husband is Wade Poplawski, a Canadian ice hockey player. Poplawski popped the big question to Diggins in April of 2021. In a November Instagram post, the Olympian revealed she and her fiancé are set to wed this May.
Wiki:
| World Cup career | |
|---|---|
| Seasons | 11 – (2011–present) |
| Individual wins | 12 |
| Team wins | 1 |
| Indiv. podiums | 39 |
| Team podiums | 8 |
| Indiv. starts | 240 |
| Team starts | 17 |
| Overall titles | 1 – (2021) |
| Discipline titles | 1 – (DI in 2021) |
Diggins earned an academic scholarship to Northern Michigan University, but deferred enrollment to race with the Central Cross-Country Elite team for one year. She decided to race professionally rather than attend college.
She was named to the United States Ski Team in 2011 and competed at her first World Championships that year. Diggins won a gold medal with Kikkan Randall in the team sprint in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme.[3] At the 2014 U23 World Championships, Diggins won silver in the individual sprint.
