Emily Arthur

Fast Facts

Sport: Snowboard
Event: Women's Halfpipe
Olympic History: PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Olympic finals at PyeongChang 2018
Coach: Josh Arthur
Year Born: 1999

About Emily

Emily Arthur will tackle the Olympic halfpipe for the third time at Milano Cortina 2026, 10 years after she was the Australian Flag Bearer at the Winter Youth Olympic Games and won silver. At PyeongChang 2018 she placed 11th and four years later in Beijing she was 14th.  

In the past four years since Beijing, she finished ninth at the 2023 World Championships, a career best result, and she has achieved three top-10 halfpipe results at World Cups. 

She grew up on Sydney’s south side and first stood on a snowboard as a six‑year‑old, keen to follow her father and brother onto the snow. That early family spark soon became her path; she made her World Cup debut in New Zealand in 2013 and has since become a two‑time Olympian in the halfpipe. 

A fast riser through junior ranks, Emily earned bronze at the 2014 Junior World Championships, then debuted at the senior World Championships in 2015, placing 16th in the halfpipe. Her breakthrough moment came at the Lillehammer Youth Winter Olympic Games in 2016, where she carried the Australian flag at the Opening Ceremony and won silver in the halfpipe, also contesting the slopestyle. 

In 2017, she picked up a top‑10 at the Olympic test event in PyeongChang and closed the year with a career‑best sixth at the Secret Garden World Cup, her first World Cup final, which set up her Olympic debut. When the Games arrived in 2018, the then 18‑year‑old advanced to the women’s halfpipe final and finished 11th as Australia’s top female in the event. 

The next Olympic cycle broadened her résumé. She collected multiple top‑15 World Cup results in 2019 and, in 2021, posted a then career‑best World Championships finish of 10th in Aspen. Emily qualified for her second Games at Beijing 2022, opening with 62.50 in qualifying before finishing 14th overall in the halfpipe. 

Her consistency continued in 2023. At the World Championships in Bakuriani she achieved a personal best ninth place, just one spot shy of the final eight, and matched her career‑best World Cup result with sixth at the Laax Open that January. 

The 2023/24 season underlined her status among the world’s best. Emily received her first‑ever invitation to X Games Aspen and placed seventh in the Snowboard SuperPipe final, a milestone she backed up with World Cup top‑12 results at Mammoth (11th) and Calgary (8th). Those performances saw her recognised as Snow Australia’s Snowboard Park & Pipe Female Athlete of the Year (Halfpipe).  

In 2025 she was selected for her sixth straight World Championships campaign in Engadin, Switzerland, alongside emerging Australian teammates. In challenging conditions she competed in qualifying but did not advance, finishing 27th, while teammate Scotty James claimed a record fourth men’s world title the same weekend. 

She has competed in five World Cups across the 2025-26 season to prepare her tricks for Milano Cortina. In Calgary she was 14th and Aspen she was 18th in the weeks before the Games. Emily will be looking to reproduce her 2023 World Championship results and make the top-10 at her third Olympics. 

Through her distinguished career, Emily’s hallmark has been steady progression, stringing together finals, pushing her amplitude, and mentoring younger Aussies coming into the pipe. With an experienced eye and a rider’s appetite for new tricks, she continues to fly the green and gold in halfpipes around the world.  

Away from the halfpipe and training, Emily still draws on the same foundations that started her journey. She considers Woronora Heights home and often trains at Thredbo when in Australia. Between northern‑ and southern‑hemisphere seasons she has balanced self‑funding with part‑time work, an experience she says has sharpened her resilience and love of the sport.