Tess Coady (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian snowboarder from Melbourne who won bronze in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She also won a bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2021 FIS Snowboard World Championships, and a bronze medal in big air at the 2023 world championships.
Career Born in Melbourne on 2 November 2000, Coady was raised in St. Kilda, Victoria, and began snowboarding with her siblings on weekends and holidays. She began competing at age 14. Coady participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where she competed in big air and in slopestyle.
She represented Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics. At 17 years old, Coady was the youngest athlete on Australia's Olympic team in PyeongChang. She was set to make her Olympic debut in the slopestyle event, but tore her anterior cruciate ligament while undertaking a practice run in difficult conditions. The qualification heats for the slopestyle event were later cancelled due to strong winds.
Since 2020, Coady has been affiliated with the artistic collective Drain Gang.
At the 2021 World Championships in Aspen, Colorado, Coady won bronze in the slopestyle competition.Women's snowboard slopestyle results
On 6 February 2022, she won the bronze medal in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, behind Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Julia Marino. She also qualified for the Olympic final in the big air event, where she placed ninth.
In the 2022-2023 competition season, Coady won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia in the big air event and silver in the slopestyle event at the 2023 Winter X Games.
2026 season Coady was selected to represent Australia at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. She finished seventh in the big air final alongside compatriot Meila Stalker (tenth).
Results Olympic Winter Games
Year Age Big Air Slopestyle 2018 Pyeongchang 17 – DNS 2022 Beijing 21 9 3 2026 Milano Cortina 25 7 27
World Championships
Year Age Big Air Slopestyle 2017 Sierra Nevada 16 21 11 2021 Aspen 20 5 3 2023 Bakuriani 22 3 4 2025 Engadin 24 23 12
X Games
Year Age Big Air Slopestyle Knuckle Huck 2022 Aspen 21 – 6 2023 Aspen 22 8 2 2026 Aspen 25 – 4 8
World Cup results by season
Season Big Air Slopestyle Overall Park & Pipe Events started Wins Points Rank Events started Wins Points Rank Events started Wins Points Rank 2017–18 2 0 0 500 26 2 0 1 740 8 4 0 1 1240 26 2019–20 1 0 0 240 28 1 1 1 1000 8 2 1 1 1240 30 2020–21 1 0 0 9 22 3 0 2 165 4 0 2 174 6 2021–22 0 – – – – 2 1 1 150 8 2 1 1 150 14 2022–23 1 0 0 29 30 2 0 1 102 8 2 1 1 150 19 2023–24 1 0 1 80 10 1 0 0 50 14 2 0 1 130 20 2024–25 0 – – – – 2 0 0 90 15 2 0 0 90 38 2025–26 2 0 0 82 12 1 0 0 40 11 3 0 0 122 19
References
External links
Tess Coady at Milano Cortina 2026