New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics in the women’s figure skating event, defeating American Julia Marino with her final practice in combat.
| Zoe Sadowski Sinnott wins New Zealand’s first gold at the Winter Olympics (Photo: AFP) |
This is New Zealand’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics, having won 53 times at the Summer Games.
In women’s downhill swimming, only a US gold medal has been born so far, but now they have had to take the silver – not to mention Julia Marino’s first US podium finish in Beijing.
Countryman Jimmy Anderson, winner of the last two Olympics, missed each round and finished only ninth.
Camila Kuzupak finished 28th in Saturday’s qualifier as a jumper and did not reach the final on Sunday.
Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022
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1 – Zoe Sadoski – Cenote (New Zealand) 92.88
2. Julia Marino (USA) 87.68 points
3 – Tess Coady (Australia) 84.15
4 – Laurie Bleuen (Canada) 81.41
5- Evapoxy Rira (Japan) 80.03
6- Anna Jacir (Austria) 75.33
… 28. Kamuz Kuzubak – Didn’t make it to the finals
National Sports reports on the venue: Gergeli Cohan, Erica Kovacs (text), Karoly Orvay (photo)
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| The last exercise has been decided (Photo: AFP) |
