Vlad Khadarin (born 22 February 1998) is a Russian-born professional

snowboarder Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...

competing 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 ...

and

big air Big air is a high-injury-risk sports discipline where the competitor rides a vehicle, such as a motocross motorcycle, a skateboard, a snowboard, or a pair of skis, down a hill or ramp and performs aerial tricks after launching off very large jump ...

events. In 2011, he moved to Italy with his family. Nowadays, he resides in

Como Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco dialect, Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and ...

and his home mountain is

Madonna di Campiglio Madonna di Campiglio (german: Sankt Maria im Pein) is a village and a ski resort in northeast Italy. It is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Pinzolo. The village lies in the Val Rendena at an elevation of above sea level, and has approximatel ...

Career

Vlad Khadarin started competing in season 2015/2016. He won Silver at the 2016 Youth Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. In January 2017, Vlad won Gold at his first World Cup in Moscow, Russia and later in the year he became the first person to land a frontside 1800 nose. He won Bronze at the World Cup in Secret Garden, China in 2018 and Gold at the World Cup in Seiser Alm, Italy in 2020. He competed in 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 ...

and

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

. He also competed at the Burton US Open in Vail, Colorado (2019), Laax Open in Switzerland (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and the Snowboarding World Championships (2017, 2019, 2021).

References

1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Novosibirsk Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Russian male snowboarders Olympic snowboarders for Russia Snowboarders at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia Winter World University Games medalists in snowboarding Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade {{Russia-snowboarding-bio-stub