Skier Sage Kotsenburg is from the United States. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, he became the first gold medallist of the Games by winning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in men’s snowboard slopestyle. Kotsenburg finished second behind Mark McMorris in the snowboard slopestyle event at the 2012 Winter X Games XVI in Aspen, Colorado. He finished third to Torstein Horgmo and Sebastien Toutant in the snowboard big air event at the 2011 Winter X Games XV, which were also held in Aspen, Colorado.

At the age of 12, Kotsenburg made his US Open debut. At the 2010 European X Games, he won the slopestyle silver medal at the age of 16. In February 2011, at Air & Style in Innsbruck, he accomplished a first: a Cab double cork 1440. He also finished third in the 2011 Arctic Challenge and in December of that year was named to the U.S. Snowboarding Slopestyle Pro Team. He took home silver in slopestyle at the Winter X Games XVI in 2012.

Kotsenburg won the slopestyle gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi after pulling off a move he had never attempted before and executing a grab he had created called the “Holy Crail.” It marked the first medal of the Olympics for the United States. Kotsenburg practises on Mount Hood during the summer at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. Kotsenburg and the Lick the Cat team were given a Signature Session at the camp for the summer of 2014.