Lindsey Jacobellis

Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Roxbury, Connecticut, born on August 19, 1985, who is regarded as the most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time. She dominated the discipline for almost two decades, winning five World Championship titles and ten X Games titles. Raised in Danbury and southern Vermont, she began as a skier and switched to snowboarding after a house fire destroyed the family equipment, then trained at Stratton Mountain School while racing against boys. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin she took silver in snowboard cross after falling on the second-to-last jump while leading. She did not medal at the next three Games, then won gold in snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and a second gold in mixed team snowboard cross with Nick Baumgartner. She has also competed in slopestyle and halfpipe.