Queralt Castellet

Queralt Castellet is a Spanish snowboarder born on 17 June 1989 in Sabadell who competes in the halfpipe. She began snowboarding at the age of six, and after fracturing her wrist at 16 and giving up gymnastics she moved to the Pyrenees to ride more often. She competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finished tenth in halfpipe at the 2007 World Snowboard Championships and was third in the halfpipe standings of the 2007-08 World Cup. A concussion forced her to withdraw from the 2010 Olympic final. She later won seven World Cup events and, at her fifth Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022, took silver in the women's halfpipe, the first Spanish woman to win a Winter Olympic medal in 30 years. She also took silver at the 2015 World Championships and now lives in New Zealand.