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New Zealand Nico Porteous is an Olympic champion in freestyle skiing, renowned for his medal-winning performances at the Winter Olympics and X Games.
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Nico Porteous was born on November 23, 2001, in Hamilton, New Zealand. He was introduced to skiing at the age of three in France by his parents and started working with a professional coach by age six. Porteous was home-schooled through Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu and also studied at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, Western Australia, accommodating his athletic pursuits. His older brother, Miguel Porteous, is also a freeskier and an Olympian.
At 14 years old, Porteous became the youngest person globally to land the triple cork 1440, a significant freestyle skiing maneuver. In 2018, he secured a bronze medal in the men’s halfpipe at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics at age 16, becoming New Zealand’s youngest Olympic Games medalist. He continued his success by winning a bronze medal in the superpipe event at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, in 2019. Further achievements include his first X Games gold medal in the Superpipe event in 2021 and winning a gold medal at the U.S. Grand Prix World Cup event in California in January 2022. Porteous defended his X Games Superpipe title in 2022, securing gold in the final run.
The pinnacle of his career came on February 19, 2022, when he earned the gold medal in the men’s halfpipe event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. This made him New Zealand’s second Winter Olympic gold medalist and the first male to achieve this feat. For his contributions to snow sports, Porteous was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2023 New Year Honours. He recently announced his retirement from competitive freeskiing, stepping back from Olympic competition.
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