Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has won her first tournament since securing two silver medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The five-time Olympic medallist returned to the slopes in the Natural Selection Tour (NST) championship in Revelstoke, Canada and qualified for the final day’s competition with ease.
The New Zealander was too goodon the natural terrain venue for the rest of the field on day two, finishing on top of the podium ahead of Czech Olympian Šárka Pančochová and 18-year-old Canadian Billy Pelchat.
Sadowski-Synnott won the 2023 NST, but took a break from the competition last year to focus on the Olympics.
“After winning my fifth Olympic medal, which is so crazy, I became the most-decorated Olympic snowboarder of all time,” she said before this year’s NST kicked off.
Sadowski-Synnott made her Olympic debut at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games at the age of 16 and took home a bronze in the snowboard big air final, New Zealand’s first Winter Olympics medal in 26 years.
She has claimed over half of the country’s Winter Olympic medals after adding a gold and a silver to her tally at the Beijing 2022 Games and a further two silvers in Milano Cortina.
