Sarah Höfflin
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Born | Geneva |
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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
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
External links
- X Games Profile
- FIS Profile
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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 of Switzerland
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- Sportspeople from Geneva