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Alpine ski racer Alice Robinson was named Snow Sports NZ Athlete of the Year.
The awards were held over a 12-month period, including the 2019/20 Northern Hemisphere Season and the 2020 Southern Hemisphere Season.
In October 2019, Robinson won the FIS World Cup Giant Slalom race in Soelden, becoming the first skier born in this century to win an Alpine Skiing World Cup race and the only gold medal. of the New Zealand Alpine World Cup since 1997.
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Alice Robinson of New Zealand celebrates during the Women’s Giant Slalom at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in February in Slovenia.
She carried the momentum of this victory throughout her season and had the following three top-10 finishes before landing on top of the podium once more at the Kranjska Gora World Cup Giant Slalom in February this year. year. Robinson will race next Saturday night at Soelden to open his 2021 season.
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Jess Hotter and Craig Murray were announced as joint winners of the Freeride Athlete of the Year award. It is very unusual for two athletes to win the title jointly, but both had outstanding results this year on the Freeride World Tour, the judges said there was no way to separate them.
They both claimed a victory on this year’s Freeride World Tour with Hotter winning at Kicking Horse, Canada and Murray at Fieberbrunn, Austria.
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Zoi Sadowski Synnott trains in the final of the Big Air Women’s FIS Snowboard World Cup presented by Cardrona Alpine Resort
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won her second Winter X Games gold medal at Snowboard Slopestyle in Norway in March and Margaux Hackett (Breakthrough season winner) took two fourth places in the Freeski Big Air World Cups in the 2019/2020 season of the northern hemisphere.
The winners were:
Instructor of the Year: Rowan Pemberton (Queenstown)
Men’s Ski Masters Champion – Perry Coulter (Queenstown)
Women’s Ski Masters Champion – Bonny Teat (Wanaka)
Season Advancement: Margaux Hackett (Wanaka), Freeski Slopestyle, and Big Air
Coach of the Year: Chris Knight (Christchurch), Alpine Ski Races
Cross Country Athlete of the Year: Campbell Wright (Wanaka)
Alpine Ski Racer of the Year: Alice Robinson (Queenstown)
Adaptive Snowsports Athlete of the Year: Corey Peters (New Plymouth)
Snowboarder of the Year: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Wanaka)
Freeskier of the Year – Nico Porteous (Wanaka)
Freeride Athlete of the Year: Craig Murray (Wanaka) and Jess Hotter (Ohakune)
Overall Athlete of the Year: Alice Robinson, Alpine Ski Races
