| Tess Coady | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Birth Date: | 2 November 2000 |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height: | 1.69 m |
| Weight: | 53 kg |
| Country: | Australia |
| Event: | Slopestyle, Big air |
Tess Coady (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian snowboarder from Melbourne who won bronze in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She also won a bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2021 FIS Snowboard World Championships, and a bronze medal in big air at the 2023 world championships.
Born in Melbourne on 2 November 2000,[1] Coady was raised in St. Kilda, Victoria, and began snowboarding with her siblings on weekends and holidays. She began competing at age 14.[2] Coady participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where she competed in big air and in slopestyle. She represented Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics. At 17 years old, Coady was the youngest athlete on Australia's Olympic team in PyeongChang. She was set to make her Olympic debut in the slopestyle event,[3] but tore her ACL while undertaking a practice run in difficult conditions.[4] The qualification heats for the slopestyle event were later cancelled due to strong winds.
Since 2020, Coady has been affiliated with the artistic collective Drain Gang.
At the 2021 World Championships in Aspen, Colorado, Coady won bronze in the slopestyle competition.[5]
On 6 February 2022, she won the bronze medal in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics,[6] behind Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Julia Marino.[7] She also qualified for the Olympic final in the big air event, where she placed ninth.[1]
In the 2022-2023 competition season, Coady won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia in the big air event and silver in the slopestyle event at the 2023 Winter X Games.[8] [9] [10]