Key Facts
About the Games
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games were New Zealand’s most successful ever Winter Olympics.
Represented by 15 athletes, the New Zealand Team won two gold medals and one silver. The gold won by Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in slopestyle is New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic gold.
Beijing was unable to host international visitors during the games due to the worldwide covid pandemic.
Read moreBeijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games were New Zealand’s most successful ever Winter Olympics.
Represented by 15 athletes, the New Zealand Team won two gold medals and one silver. The gold won by Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in slopestyle is New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic gold.
Beijing was unable to host international visitors during the games due to the worldwide covid pandemic.
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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Snowboard
Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is New Zealand’s most successful ever winter Olympian with a gold, silver and bronze medal to her name.
The Wānaka local created history at Beijing 2022, winning New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic gold medal. Competing in Snowboard Slopestyle, Sadowski-Synnott landed a hugely technical rail line and laced together a frontside double 1080 into a backside double 1080 on the final two jumps for an emphatic victory.
Read moreSnowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is New Zealand’s most successful ever winter Olympian with a gold, silver and bronze medal to her name.
The Wānaka local created history at Beijing 2022, winning New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic gold medal. Competing in Snowboard Slopestyle, Sadowski-Synnott landed a hugely technical rail line and laced together a frontside double 1080 into a backside double 1080 on the final two jumps for an emphatic victory.
Ten days later Sadowksi-Synnott claimed her second medal of the Games, winning silver in an epic Big Air final. The medal wins in Beijing followed her success at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games where she won bronze in the Big Air.
Outside of her Olympic success Sadowski-Synnott became the first snowboarder ever to defend a Slopestyle World Championship title in March 2021, also winning the silver medal at the 2021 Big Air World Championships. She took the win at the FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air in Kreischberg 2020, 2nd place at the FIS Snowboard World Cup Slopestyle in Laax 2021 and claimed two 2021 Winter X Games medals - silver in snowboard slopestyle and bronze in snowboard big air.
Sadowski-Synnott is coached by Snow Sports NZ High Performance Snowboard Coach Sean Thompson.
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Snowboard
Snowboard is one of the newer events on the Winter Olympic programme, having been first included at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. But despite having only featured at six editions of the Games, snowboard has become one of the most popular and exciting sports at the Winter Olympics.
There are 11 events in the snowboard competition at Beijing 2022, including mixed team snowboard cross, which will be making its Winter Olympic debut after featuring at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Read moreSnowboard is one of the newer events on the Winter Olympic programme, having been first included at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. But despite having only featured at six editions of the Games, snowboard has become one of the most popular and exciting sports at the Winter Olympics.
There are 11 events in the snowboard competition at Beijing 2022, including mixed team snowboard cross, which will be making its Winter Olympic debut after featuring at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
The snowboard competition will take place at Genting Snow Park in the Zhangjiakou cluster, where competitions in freestyle skiing, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping and biathlon will also take place. Following the Winter Olympics, the venue will be converted into a ski resort.
The Big Air event will take place at Big Air Shougang, located in the Shougang Industrial Park. The venue is the world's first permanent Big Air structure, and will be used by the public for recreational purposes after the Games.
OLYMPIC COMPETITION
The snowboard competition at Beijing 2022 will feature 11 events, including the new mixed team snowboard cross event.
Men & Women
- Parallel Giant Slalom
- Snowboard Cross
- Halfpipe
- Slopestyle
- Big Air
- Mixed Team Snowboard Cross
The Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Big Air competitions are all judged events, meaning each athlete's run(s) are scored by a panel of judges who evaluate riders based on the difficulty of the tricks, execution of the run, amplitude of the techniques and landing of the jumps. The snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom and mixed team snowboard cross events are all races (first to cross the line wins!).
SNOWBOARD HISTORY
Snowboarding has its origins as a sport in 1960's America, when people sought new winter activities.
In the late 1970s snowboarders started to “invade” traditional ski resorts, but faced opposition from skiers who tried to exclude the snowboarders from “their” mountains. By the 1990s, however, almost all ski resorts had accepted snowboarding, and the resorts have found the snowboarders to be an excellent source of new revenue.
The International Snowboarding Federation (ISF) formed in 1989 and the International Ski Federation (FIS) introduced snowboarding as a FIS discipline in 1994, helping pave the way for snowboarding's Winter Olympic debut at the Nagano Games in 1998.
Men's and women's events were contested in the giant slalom and halfpipe competitions, and at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, parallel giant slalom and halfpipe were added to the programme. Snowboard cross made its debut at Turin 2006, with slopestyle and parallel slalom added in 2014. Big Air made its debut at PyeongChang 2018, and mixed team snowboard cross will be the latest event to joining the Olympic snowboard programme when it debuts at Beijing 2022.
NZ MEDALS
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has been New Zealand's only medal (bronze) in Snowboarding at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in for the Big Air event.
NZ team
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Cool Wakushima

Finn Bilous

Peter Michael

Anja Barugh

Miguel Porteous

Ben Harrington

Campbell Wright

Alice Robinson
NZ Team Instagram
“He’s my inspiration, he’s my role model, he’s my best mate and to have my arm around him at the bottom when we realised that we had won, that was insane” - Nico Porteous
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An absolute champ - Nico Porteous
It's a huge day for the Porteous family with both Nico and Miguel set to feature in the Men's Freeski Halfpipe Finals today at 2.30p
Unfortunately @yvng_benni & @gustav.legnavsky miss out despite giving it their all.
Most importantly @yvng_benni is okay after a scary crash, proud of the team
Hear what is going through Miguel's mind before a run with @toyota_nz 'On the Startlin
Ben Barclay left it all out on the Slopestyle course today finishing up in 10th place
Loved watching you go for it these games Alice!
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Check out our Sky Sport NZ Medal Moment to witness all the action! We are so proud
Finn Bilous talks us through his mindset during a run with Toyota New Zealand ‘On the Startline'
Huge effort from @tiarncollins
Tune in to Sky Sport NZ at 3pm to catch Margaux in action
Campbell, who is the youngest Biathlon athlete at these Olympics, fi
“It was tough out there but I gave it everything I had”
Proud of you Peter
I didn’t want to get down here and finish in 7th place, I wanted to win so I was willing to risk it all.”
@alicerobins0n
Well done Ben
Repost: @miguelporteous // @nicoporteous
26th place for @petermichael42 in the 1,500m tonight
Youngest on the course, shooting 18/20 and finishing in 32nd out of 92 - we are so proud
He talks us through his process and mindset with @toyota_nz ‘s On The Startline.
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SWIPE ➡️ to see what’s coming up on @skysportnz
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Olympic champion ➕Gold Medal
We loved seeing you out there Tiarn! Bring on the Big Air
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New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic Gold Medalist - @zoisynnott
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@tiarncollins talks us through how he prepares for a run with @toyota_nz ‘s ‘On The Startline’
A pretty momentous moment for Tiarn who had to pull out of the Games
We’re so excited and we just can’t hide it!
Zoi talks us through her approach to the course with @toyota_nz ‘s ‘On The Startline’
Zoi competes in the Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final at 2.30pm NZT.
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Zoi-Sadowski-Synnott showed her class, topping the qualification round while Olympic debutant Cool Wakushima showed us she has some pretty impressive tricks up her sleeve, despite pulling out du
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott was top of the class, advancing through to
All on Sky Sport NZ
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