Tess Coady

Fast Facts

Sport: Snowboard
Event: Slopestyle, Big Air
Olympic History: PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022 (bronze)
Highlights: Bronze in Slopestyle at Beijing 2022, World Championship Bronze in Slopestyle (2021) and Big Air (2023)
Coach: Stan Wu
Year Born: 2000

About Tess

Tess Coady became Australia’s youngest Winter Olympic medallist with her sensational snowboard slopestyle bronze at Beijing 2022. She was also ninth in the big air competition. Four years earlier in PyeongChang, she was the youngest team member, but tragically couldn’t compete in slopestyle after suffering a knee injury in training at the Games.  

Leading into Milano Cortina 2026, she is still an exciting prospect in slopestyle and big air, with consistent results on the World Cup circuit.  

From a childhood spent between Melbourne and the mountains, Tess found snowboarding at nine and was quickly hooked. By 14 she was chasing slopestyle lines overseas, and in her first World Cup season in 2017 she placed sixth at Mammoth Mountain before winning back‑to‑back junior world titles in slopestyle and big air. That same year she debuted at the senior World Championships in Sierra Nevada, placing 11th in slopestyle and 21st in big air, and was named Ski & Snowboard Australia’s Rising Star.

Selected for PyeongChang in 2018 as Australia’s youngest team member, Tess suffered a knee injury in training that ended her campaign before it began. After a year of rehab she returned to competition with 11th at the Modena Big Air and then made history in early 2020, winning Australia’s first World Cup slopestyle gold at Seiser Alm. 

Selected for PyeongChang in 2018 as Australia’s youngest team member, Tess suffered a knee injury in training that ended her campaign before it began. After a year of rehab she returned to competition with 11th at the Modena Big Air and then made history in early 2020, winning Australia’s first World Cup slopestyle gold at Seiser Alm. 

Her momentum continued across 2021–22. In 2021, she won slopestyle bronze at the World Championships in Aspen, then tuned up for Beijing by taking the Laax Open in January 2022.  

In Beijing she delivered one of Australia’s standout Winter Olympic moments, dropping an 84.15 final‑run score to claim slopestyle bronze and become Australia’s youngest ever Winter Olympic medallist, later revealing she had ridden through a small fracture in her ankle.

Tess opened 2023 with a landmark silver at X Games Aspen in slopestyle, the first X Games slopestyle medal by an Australian woman. Then produced a superb week at the Bakuriani World Championships, finishing fourth in slopestyle before securing big air bronze. She capped the northern winter with World Cup slopestyle silver at Silvaplana. 

The 2023–24 season began with her first World Cup big air medal, silver under lights at Beijing’s Shougang jump, before a shoulder injury curtailed her campaign. Through rehab she also managed a safe return after a concussion later in the year. 

Back on tour in 2024–25, Tess returned to World Cup slopestyle in Calgary, placing fourth, then took sixth at Absolut Park when finals were cancelled due to weather. She made both events at the 2025 FIS World Championships in St Moritz‑Engadin, finishing 12th in slopestyle and 23rd in big air, consolidating her standing as a two‑discipline contender. In the space of three seasons, she had stood on major‑event podiums in both slopestyle and big air, a testament to her adaptability and resilience. 

Leading up to her third Olympic Games, Tess competed in three World Cups for the 2025-26 season. In Secret Garden (CHN) she was fourth in big air and a week later in Beijing was eighth. At Snowmass (USA), she qualified fourth in slopestyle before finishing sixth in the eight-woman final. At the X Games in late January, she was fourth in slopestyle.

Rooted in Melbourne but forged on mountains from Laax to Livigno, Tess continues to refine the rail‑to‑jump fluency that defines her riding. With two World Cup slopestyle wins, World Championship medals in two events, an X Games podium and an Olympic bronze already on the résumé, she remains a standard‑bearer for Australia’s new wave of park and pipe snowboarding.