Iouri Podladtchikov

Iouri Podladtchikov, known on the circuit as I-Pod, was born on 13 September 1988 in Podolsk near Moscow and is a Russian-born Swiss snowboarder who rides goofy stance. His family moved to Switzerland in 1996 when his father took a post as a geophysicist, and he grew up in Davos, started snowboarding in 2000 and graduated from Davos Sports High School in 2008. He competed for Russia at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin at the age of seventeen, finishing 37th, then changed nationality and finished fourth for Switzerland at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. He won the halfpipe World Cup title in 2008, a silver medal at the 2010 Winter X Games, the gold medal at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championship and the men's halfpipe gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He was the first rider to land a cab double cork 1440 in a halfpipe competition, a trick he called the YOLO Flip. After injuries including a traumatic brain injury and a ruptured Achilles tendon he retired from competition on 22 August 2020, and he has since studied art history and photography.