Jamie Anderson

Jamie Anderson is an American professional snowboarder, born on September 13, 1990, who won the gold medal in the first Olympic women slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and repeated it at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, becoming the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal. She has won slopestyle gold at the Winter X Games in 2007 and 2008 and again in 2012 and 2013, and has collected 21 X Games medals, one of the largest hauls by a woman in the event. She grew up the fifth of eight children in South Lake Tahoe, California, first snowboarded at age nine, qualified for the 2004 Winter X Games four years later and in 2005 became its youngest female medalist at fifteen. She founded the Jamie Anderson Foundation in 2013 to fund young winter sports athletes.