Zoe Atkin (born 16 January 2003) is a British-American
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 ...
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Career
She competed in the halfpipe event at the
FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021
The 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Idre, Rogla, Almaty and Aspen with the ski and snowboard cross events held in Idre from 11 to 13 February 2021, the parallel and giant slalom snowboard in Rogla from ...
winning a bronze medal. During the 2022-2023 competition season, she won silver in the halfpipe event at the
2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia and gold in the superpipe at the
2023 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.
After qualifying for the
2022 Beijing 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 ...
in the halfpipe event, she qualified to the final in fourth and placed ninth overall in the final.
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Personal life
She is the younger sister of fellow skier Izzy Atkin; both were born in the United States to an English father and Malaysian mother, and have competed for Great Britain from a young age. Atkin enrolled at Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 2022. Zoe Atkin Biography
Retrieved 25 April 2023
References
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Living people
2003 births
British female freestyle skiers
X Games athletes
Sportspeople from Boston
American emigrants to the United Kingdom
American people of Malaysian descent
American people of English descent
British people of Malaysian descent
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Great Britain