Zoe Atkin
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| Nationality | American, British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 January 2003 Newton, Massachusetts, US[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Halfpipe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zoe Atkin (born 16 January 2003) is a British-American freestyle skier.[2]
Career
[edit]She competed in the halfpipe event at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021 winning a bronze medal.[3][4] 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.[5][6] After qualifying for the 2022 Beijing Olympics in the halfpipe event, she qualified to the final in fourth and placed ninth overall in the final.[5][7][8]
Personal life
[edit]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.[9][10] Atkin enrolled at Stanford University in 2022. [11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Zoe ATKIN". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Profile
- ^ FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021 results
- ^ "Zoe Atkin: British 18-year-old wins halfpipe bronze at World Championships". bbc.co.uk. 12 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Britain's Zoe Atkin Soars to Emotional World Championship Silver in Freeski Halfpipe in Bakuriani, Georgia". www.eurosport.com. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.[dead link]
- ^ "Monster Energy Women's Ski SuperPipe". X Games. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Qualification results
- ^ Final results
- ^ Izzie Atkin: The US-born Team GB star who grew up on Marmite and Ribena, Matt McGeehan, Evening Standard, 17 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2022
- ^ Izzy and Zoe Atkin interview: Qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing would be a dream, Eurosport, 4 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2022
- ^ Zoe Atkin Biography Retrieved 25 April 2023
External links
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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