SadowskiSynott, Porteous joint winners in awards
Snow Sports NZ
THE Snow Sports New Zealand annual awards winners were announced digitally yesterday due to Covid19 Level 2 restrictions.
Zoi SadowskiSynnott and Nico Porteous were joint winners of the overall athlete of the year.
They were the first joint winners of the award in more than a decade.
Both had strong seasons, achieving New Zealand firsts, world firsts and both landing on the podium at every competition they dropped into.
In March 2021, SadowskiSynnott became the first person to successfully defend a snowboard slopestyle World Championships title.
She won the Big Air World Cup in Kreischberg, claimed a silver medal (snowboard slopestyle) and a bronze medal (snowboard big air) at the prestigious Aspen X Games and won the Jackson Hole stop of the Natural Selection Tour.
Porteous won New Zealand’s first ever X Games freeski superpipe gold medal with a neverlandedbefore in competi
Zoi SadowskiSynott
tion trick combination of back to back 1620s. He went on to win the freeski halfpipe World Championships title, the first Kiwi to win this title.
Award winners
Instructor of the Year –
Men’s Masters Ski Racing Champion – Women’s Masters Ski Racing Champion – Breakthrough Season –
Coach of the Year – Brad Prosser (Wanaka), freeski coach
Cross Country Athlete of the Year – Campbell Wright (Wanaka)
Alpine Ski Racer of the Year – Alice Robinson (Queenstown)
Snowboarder of the Year – Zoi SadowskiSynnott (Wanaka)
Freeskier of the Year – Nico Porteous (Wanaka)
Freeride Athlete of the Year – Blake Marshall (Queenstown)
Overall Athlete of the Year – Jointly awarded to Zoi SadowskiSynnott and Nico Porteous.