Jamie

Jamie ANDERSON

United States of America
United States of America
SnowboardSnowboard
Olympic Medals
2G
1S
Games Participations3
First Olympic GamesSochi 2014
Year of Birth1990

Biography

Last updated: 11 December 2024

Jamie Anderson won the inaugural snowboard slopestyle event at Sochi 2014 and then, four years later at PyeongChang 2018, retained the title to remain the only female Olympic champion in her discipline, and the first woman ever to win two gold medals in snowboarding. But her achievements at her second Winter Games did not end there: of all the male and female snowboard athletes who competed in both slopestyle and the new big air event, she was the only rider to mount the podium twice, taking the big air silver medal behind Austria's Anna Gasser.

An early start

Jamie Anderson grew up in South Lake Tahoe, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. She was the fifth child in a family of eight children, and it was her two older sisters, Joanie and Stacie, who introduced her to snowboarding and inspired her passion for the sport. Jamie fell in love with snowboarding and competed in her first events aged 9 after convincing her mother that she was old enough. She completed her schooling at home, which allowed her to strap on her board and hit the local slopes on a daily basis. She specialises in the tricks and rails of slopestyle, and she quickly developed the mastery needed to secure her first podium finish – she placed third in slopestyle at the X Games in Aspen in 2006, at the age of 15, making her the youngest ever medallist in the competition, supplanting the great Shaun White – if only by just a few days!

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