Zoi SADOWSKI SYNNOTT

YOUNGEST MEDALLIST FOR AN HOUR
At age 16 years 353 days, she briefly became New Zealand's youngest-ever Olympic medallist, breaking the previous record of 17 years 100 days set by Danyon Loader at the Olympic Games Barcelona 1992. The record was broken an hour later the same day by Nico Porteous at age 16 years 91 days, who won bronze in freestyle skiing halfpipe.

FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND
Was born in Sydney, Australia, to a New Zealand father and a mother from the United States. Her family moved to Wanaka, New Zealand when she was six years old.

COVID-19
Spent a lot of the COVID-19 lockdown period in Wanaka jumping on a trampoline to focus on her aerial awareness. As soon as lockdown lifted, she went back to the mountains. "We knew we were the only ones snowboarding in the whole world, so we had to make the most of it." (stuff.co.nz, 6 Feb 2021)

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Beijing 2022 gold medallist in women's slopestyle and the youngest ever in the event (20 years, 337 days). First New Zealand gold medallist, and the first woman representing NZL to win multiple medals at the Olympic Winter Games.

PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games big air bronze medallist in her debut. Despite having never landed a clean switchback side 900 before, she chose to do that for her second run, scoring a huge 92.00 points, to become only the second New Zealander to win an Olympic Winter Games medal (ending New Zealand’s 26-year Winter Olympics medal drought). Briefly, she was the nation’s youngest Olympic medallist of all time (until Nico Porteous, younger by eighth-and-a-half months, won bronze in the freeski halfpipe). New Zealand's previous and first-ever winter Olympic medal came from Alpine skier Annelise Coberger, who won silver in slalom at the Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games.

In five World Championship starts, she has won four medals, two gold (2019 and 2021 slopestyle), and two silver (2017 slopestyle, 2021 big air). Her non-podium finish was fourth in the 2017 big air. In 2021 in Aspen, despite falling on each of her first two runs, she jumped from last to first on her third run, to become the first person ever to defend a slopestyle world championship title.

Three-time Winter X Games slopestyle champion (2022, 2020, 2019), 2022 big air gold champion, with two silvers (2019 big air, 2021 slopestyle) and one bronze (2021 big air).

2021 Natural Selection Tour at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort champion in February (two months later she finished second in the finals in Alaska).

2019 US Open slopestyle champion.