- 20-year-old makes Olympic history in women’s slopestyle
- Julia Marino and Tess Coady win silver and bronze, respectively
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott made history by winning New Zealand’s first-ever gold medal at a Winter Olympic Games, capturing the women’s slopestyle title on Sunday morning in smash-and-grab fashion with a dramatic final run that ended the United States’ run of dominance in the discipline.
The 20-year-old, who became Olympic champion on Waitangi Day, put down the run of her life in the biggest competition of her career to overtake the American Julia Marino, who had set the benchmark with her second of three attempts that nearly held up before settling for silver in the mountain village of Taizicheng roughly 120km northwest of Beijing. Tess Coady took the bronze to win Australia’s first medal of these Games with a clutch final run of her own.
