With the summer heating up, so are things here at GSI.com as we start our new series, Hottest Athletes (female):

KRISTI LESKINEN

Date of birth: February 10, 1981
Birth place: Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Sport: American freestyle skier

Bio: She appeared on the cover of Powder magazine's Photo Annual in 2004. She grew up in Uniontown, PA where the mountains were only a little bigger than the mogul fields she competed in. She was ranked #90 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2005.

At Winter X Games IX, Leskinen won a bronze medal in the Women's Superpipe. Kristi was the first woman ever to pull a rodeo 720—two rotations, head pointed to the earth. She had a choice to become a pro wakeboarder but she decided to become professional at freestyle skiing. She began to receive sponsors for skiing and instantly knew that skiing was what she wanted to do.

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