Success keeps coming for Sadowski-Synnott

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has won the YETI Natural Selection Revelstoke.

The competition, in the Selkirk Mountains 24km from Revelstoke in British Columbia, was held on some of the most dynamic and challenging terrain in snowboard competition history.

Sadowski-Synnott, from Wānaka, beat American Hailey Langland in the semifinals to advance to the finals against another American, Elena Hight.

"I knew Elena was going do some crazy lines, so I wanted to stick to what I knew and go where the take-offs were to spin off and try to find little pillow lines that were still untracked and soft and make it to the bottom in one piece", Sadowski-Synnott said.

She did just that, dropping a backflip and hunting down airs as she attacked the now-familiar technical terrain to earn a 79.2, the second-highest score of the day after her 80 in semifinals, which also earned her the run of the day.

Sadowski-Synnott, who is coming off an impressive series of slopestyle and big air podium finishes this winter said she felt honoured and privileged to be able to compete in this competition because it was the best backcountry riders in the world, riding the best snow in the most psycho terrain.

"To be part of it is pretty insane. Coming from a slopestyle and big air background, it's so different but kind of the same in the sense where you're just trying to ride your best and perform on the day."

This win marks Sadowski-Synnott’s 24th consecutive podium finish across all disciplines, all achieved over the past three years.

- Staff reporter