Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is a New Zealand snowboarder born on 6 March 2001 who specialises in slopestyle and big air. Born in Sydney to an Irish father and an American mother, she moved to Wanaka, New Zealand, at the age of six and was educated at Mount Aspiring College. She won bronze in big air at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, then gold in slopestyle and silver in big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, which made her New Zealand first Winter Olympic gold medallist and its first multiple Winter Olympic medallist. She added silver medals in big air and slopestyle at the 2026 Winter Olympics and is the most decorated snowboarder in Olympic history with five medals. She also won the 2019 World Championships slopestyle title and the Winter X Games slopestyle in 2019 and 2020.