Hannah Teter

Hannah Teter was born on 27 January 1987 in Belmont, Vermont, the youngest of five children in a snowboarding family, and is an American snowboarder who won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Two of her older brothers, Abe and Elijah, also rode for the US team and a third, Amen, manages her career. She started snowboarding at eight at Okemo, was World Junior Halfpipe Champion at fifteen and won Winter X Games gold in 2004 after a bronze in 2003. She took bronze at her first FIS World Championships in 2005 and has six World Cup victories. In Turin she won gold despite a knee injury that needed two surgeries, ahead of her friend Gretchen Bleiler, and in Vancouver she finished second to Torah Bright of Australia. She placed fourth at the 2014 Games in Sochi and did not make the 2018 team. She appeared in the 2005 documentary First Descent and gave her 2010 prize winnings to Haiti earthquake relief.