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]Atkin has dual British and US citizenship, and has competed for Great Britain her entire career.
Atkin made her professional debut at the age of just 14, before winning World Cup halfpipe gold at Copper Mountain in 2019 at 16. She followed that with a bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships in Aspen FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021.[3][4] Atkin made her Olympic debut at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in the halfpipe event, where she qualified to the final in fourth and placed ninth overall in the final.[5][6][7]
During the 2022-2023 competition season, Atkin 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][8] She followed her X Games performance with a silver in 2024. Atkin won the crystal globe for the 2024-2025 season and is currently ranked the number one woman’s halfpipe skier in the world.
Personal life
[edit]Atkin is the younger sister of fellow skier Izzy Atkin; both were born in the United States to an English father and Chinese-Malaysian mother, and have competed for Great Britain from a young age.[9][10] Atkin was born in Newton, Massachusetts and grew up in the east coast before moving to Park City, Utah to pursue skiing with her sister. Atkin enrolled at Stanford University in 2022 and is a full-time student while competing internationally. [11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Zoe ATKIN". Beijing 2022 Olympics. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. 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. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ Qualification results
- ^ Final results
- ^ "Monster Energy Women's Ski SuperPipe". X Games. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ 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 competitors
- Sportspeople from Newton, Massachusetts
- American emigrants to the United Kingdom
- American people of Malaysian descent
- American people of English descent
- English people of Malaysian descent
- Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic freestyle skiers for Great Britain
- 21st-century British sportswomen