{"id":719997,"date":"2026-06-07T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:20:09","slug":"jessica-fox-wins-second-world-cup-gold-in-two-days-to-continue-inspiring-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719997\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Fox wins second World Cup gold in two days to continue inspiring comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Fox’s inspiring comeback from surgery has continued with a second World Cup gold medal in the space of two days.<\/p>\n

Fox won the women’s C1 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup in Prague, just 24 hours after topping the podium in the K1 final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three-time Olympic gold medallist only returned to international competition last week following a nine-month absence.<\/p>\n

Fox underwent surgery to remove a benign tumour from her left kidney last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been doing this for a long time now and I need to trust myself and trust my skills,” Fox said.<\/p>\n

“Throughout the whole surgery and recovery process, I kept telling myself the mind remembers, the body remembers, I can come back from this and I’ll be back.”<\/p>\n

Fox wins World Cup gold<\/a><\/p>\n

Jessica Fox records her first World Cup victory since returning to international competition after surgery to remove a benign tumour from her left kidney.<\/p>\n

Fox claimed a silver medal in the women’s K1 final at the World Cup event in Tacen, Slovenia<\/a> in her international return last week.<\/p>\n

“Coming off the back of Slovenia last week, I was battling with a wrist injury, so I’ve been managing that,” Fox said.<\/p>\n

“I think I’m feeling much better this week and more confident in my paddling.”<\/p>\n

Fox was competing for the first time in C1 since having surgery.<\/p>\n

She attracted four penalty seconds in her run when she touched gates 17 and 18, before finishing with a total of 121.01.<\/p>\n

Czech Martina Satkov\u00e1 (121.28) and Great Britain’s Kimberley Woods (123.02) claimed silver and bronze respectively.<\/p>\n

“This one feels extremely special,” Fox said.<\/p>\n

“I definitely didn’t expect to win that run. It felt really hard down the bottom section and I think for me it was a lesson in never giving up and holding it together, staying composed right until the finish.<\/p>\n

“I’m really proud of the fight and the determination I showed out there today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Fox’s inspiring comeback from surgery has continued with a second World Cup gold medal in the space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,349047,349046,118058,73638,93653,46012,42273,242404,85,21418],"class_list":["post-719997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-c1","tag-canoe","tag-icf","tag-jess-fox","tag-jessica-fox","tag-k1","tag-kayak","tag-olympic-champion","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}