Sarah Höfflin (born 8 January 1991) is an Olympic Swiss

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

. She won a gold medal in big air at

Winter X Games XXII Winter X Games XXII (re-titled Winter X Games Aspen '18; styled as Winter X Games Twenty-Two in the official logo) were held from January 25 to January 28, 2018, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 17th consecutive Winter X Games held in Aspen. The ...

, and won gold in

slopestyle Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features. Points are scored for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks. The disci ...

at the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Early life and education

Höfflin lived in the UK between the ages of 12 and 22, living in

Tewkesbury Tewkesbury ( ) is a medieval market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England. The town has significant history in the Wars of the Roses and grew since the building of Tewkesbury Abbey. It stands at the confluence of the Riv ...

, where she attended Tewkesbury School, before attending

Cardiff University , latin_name = , image_name = Shield of the University of Cardiff.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms of Cardiff University , motto = cy, Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord , mottoeng = Truth, Unity and Concord , established = 1 ...

, where she graduated with a degree in neuroscience. She was a late starter as a freestyle skier, only taking up the sport in her early 20s when competing at British Universities' Snowsports Council competitions after leaving university and returning to Switzerland.

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* * 1991 births Living people X Games athletes Swiss female freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing Alumni of Cardiff University Sportspeople from Geneva 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub