Torah Bright
About Torah Bright
Birth Date - December 27, 1986
Birth Place - Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Current Home - Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality - Australia
Height - 5? 4?
Occupation – PRO SNOWBOARDER/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Marital Status- Single
Rowena Bright, Torah’s sister and also another Olympic Mormon said about Torah recently:
” Torah is as kind as she is beaufitul. She is one of my greatest friends and for a 19 year old she is wise beyond her years . She is quirky and fun, but has a great perspective on life and her talents because of the prinicipals of the gospel of Jesus Christ that she tries to live by. I watch her and learn. This Olympics is going to be a great one for our family, not only if torah performs her best, that is beside the point. We are all happy to be going to Italy to celebrate Torah and all she has become but also to reunite as a family – we have not all been together in the one place for many years. Though we have been separated alot by travelling with our sports/carreers, we love being together. We have grown up knowing that our family bonds are the most important of all. I imagine there that there will be alot of fun, laughter….. and dramas!”
Torah now lives in a renovated historic home in Salt Lake City. She follows winter around the world in order to pursue her sport. She spends half the year training in New Zealand and Australia. Her brother is her on-snow manager and coach. Torah has medaled in many competitions and earned awards, including the 2007 TTR Womens World Tour champion, the gold at the 2007 Winter X Games, two time World Superpipe Champion, Nippon Open, the overall winner of the 2007 Burton Global Open Series.
At the Vancouver Winter Olympics of 2010, Torah brought a timely flash of exellence to an otherwise messy night on the halfpipe to win Australia’s fourth winter gold. Read more…
Torah married Jake Welch in the Salt Lake Temple on June 5, 2010.
Religion gives Olympian Bright a boost (article)
