On Tuesday, Jaquess won the gold medal in women’s jumping and the bronze medal in tricks. She leaped 143 feet to win the women’s jumping gold medal by just two-tenths of a meter over Canada’s Whitney McClintock, and she tallied 7,050 points to win the bronze medal in tricks.
Including the silver medal she won in women’s slalom on Monday, Jaquess, 23, has now won six medals in Pan American Games competition; the most among U.S. water ski athletes since the sport became part of the Pan American Games’ program in 1995.
