The pounamu went to Japan and the United States at the FIS snowboard halfpipe world cup finals at the Cardrona Alpine Resort yesterday.
No New Zealand snowboarder got beyond the qualifying round in a strong field of international athletes.
Ryo Aono, of Japan, won the men's event and American Kelly Clark the women's.
They were presented with medals of pounamu by Winter Games New Zealand chairman Sir Eion Edgar, along with cheques for $13,500.
Cardrona was fine, warm and a little windy but, with 8cm of fresh snow overnight, competitors were happy with the conditions.
Aono was a clear winner in the 12-strong men's final scoring 92.75 on his first run and 95.25 on his second executing a new trick - a backside 12 - in the process.
Competing in his first World Cup event, Shuhei Sato, also of Japan, recovered well from a fall in his first run to take second with a score of 88.5.
Yiwei Zhang, of China, was third with 84 points, despite riding with a broken hand.
Some of the lighter women in the final six found the wind an issue, but not Clark who won the women's event with a score of 83.
Her routine consisted of a frontside 7 indy, cab 7 mute, frontside air, backside 5 mute and finished with a front 5 Japan.
Sophie Rodriguez, of France, was second with 81.75 and Queralt Castellet, of Spain, was third with 71.75.
Clark, who says she will be back for the Winter Games in New Zealand next year, said she was delighted to be able to overcome a crash on the first of her two runs.
"It's never ideal to fall first run, so being able to come back under pressure, put down a run, land on the podium, it's a good day for me."
Clark picked up the cheque, the medal and points for the United States ski team as it prepares to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
The win also helps Clark maintain her world ranking as she looks for a place in that team at the Olympics.
At the medal ceremony yesterday, Winter Games chief executive Arthur Klapp said the organisation had invested $500,000 in the ski and snowboard half pipe world cup events at Cardrona this month.
Seventeen of the world's top 20 men and women took part and Klapp hoped next year the events would attract the entire top 20.
He expected among those competing in New Zealand next year would be many athletes who would go on to become Olympic medallists in 2014.
