Sarah Höfflin
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| Born | 8 January 1991 Geneva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Slopestyle, Big air | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Höfflin (born 8 January 1991) is an Olympic Swiss freestyle skier. She won a gold medal in big air at Winter X Games XXII,[1] and won gold in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Early life and education
[edit]Höfflin lived in the UK between the ages of 12 and 22, living in Tewkesbury, where she attended Tewkesbury School, before attending Cardiff University, where she graduated with a degree in neuroscience. She was a late starter as a freestyle skier, only taking up the sport in her early 20s when competing at British Universities' Snowsports Council competitions after leaving university and returning to Switzerland.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Aspen 2018 Women's Ski Big Air". xgames.espn.com. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ "Atkin bags slopestyle bronze for Britain's first Winter Olympics medal on skis". Peeblesshire News. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ Ransom, Ian (17 February 2018). Ganguly, Sudipto (ed.). "Sorry, I'm not British, says Swiss winner Hoefflin". reuters.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ Ingle, Sean (17 February 2018). "'Stoked' Izzy Atkin becomes Britain's first Olympic medal-winning skier". theguardian.com. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
External links
[edit]- Sarah Höfflin at FIS (freestyle)
- Sarah Höfflin at Olympics.com
- Sarah Höfflin at Olympedia
- Sarah Höfflin at the X Games (archive)
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- X Games athletes
- Swiss female freestyle skiers
- Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- Sportspeople from Geneva
- 21st-century Swiss women
- Swiss freestyle skiing biography stubs