Tess Coady

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Tess Coady
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2000-11-02) 2 November 2000 (age 23)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Snowboarding
Event(s) Slopestyle, Big air
Medal record
Women's snowboarding
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Winter Olympics
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Beijing Slopestyle
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Aspen Slopestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Bakuriani Big air
Winter X Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Aspen Slopestyle

Tess Coady (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian snowboarder from Melbourne who won bronze in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She also won a bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2021 FIS Snowboard World Championships, and a bronze medal in big air at the 2023 world championships.

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Career

Born in Melbourne on 2 November 2000, [1] Coady was raised in St. Kilda, Victoria, and began snowboarding with her siblings on weekends and holidays. She began competing at age 14. [2] Coady participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where she competed in big air and in slopestyle. [3]

She represented Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics. At 17 years old, Coady was the youngest athlete on Australia's Olympic team in PyeongChang. She was set to make her Olympic debut in the slopestyle event, [3] but tore her ACL while undertaking a practice run in difficult conditions. [4] The qualification heats for the slopestyle event were later cancelled due to strong winds.

Since 2020, Coady has been affiliated with the artistic collective Drain Gang.

At the 2021 World Championships in Aspen, Colorado, Coady won bronze in the slopestyle competition. [5]

On 6 February 2022, she won the bronze medal in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, [6] behind Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Julia Marino. [7] She also qualified for the Olympic final in the big air event, where she placed ninth. [1]

In the 2022-2023 competition season, Coady won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia in the big air event and silver in the slopestyle event at the 2023 Winter X Games. [8] [9] [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tess Coady". olympedia.org. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Tess Coady". The North Face. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Athletic profile – Tess Coady". pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Lisson, Ben. "Winter Olympics: Wind wreaks havoc at slopestyle, Tess Coady blames gusts for injury". ABC News. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Women's snowboard slopestyle results
  6. ↑ "Tess Coady claims Australia's first medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics with bronze in slopestyle snowboarding". ABC News. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  7. ↑ "Slopestyle, Women". olympedia.org. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  8. ↑ Cox, Britt (4 March 2023). "Coady and Guseli help Australia to record medal haul at world championships". 7NEWS. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  9. ↑ Smale, Simone (5 March 2023). "Tess Coady's bronze underlines Australia's most successful ever Freestyle World Championships". ABC News. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  10. ↑ Bruton, Michelle (27 January 2023). "At X Games, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott And Tess Coady Prove Australasia Is Taking Over Women's Snowboarding". Forbes. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
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