Zoe Atkin
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| Nationality | American, British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 January 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Halfpipe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zoe Atkin (born 16 January 2003) is a British-American freestyle skier. In 2025 she became the world champion in the halfpipe discipline at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships.
Career
Atkin has held dual British and US citizenship since birth, and like her sister Izzy Atkin, has competed for Great Britain her entire career.[2]
Atkin made her professional debut at the age of just 14, before winning World Cup halfpipe gold at Copper Mountain in 2019 at 16.[3] She followed that with a bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships in Aspen FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021.[4][5] Atkin made her Olympic debut at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in the halfpipe event, where she qualified to the final in fourth and placed ninth overall in the final.[6][7]
During the 2022-2023 competition season, Atkin won silver in the halfpipe event at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia[8] and gold in the superpipe at the 2023 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.[9][10] In the opening event of the 2023–24 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup at Copper Mountain, Atkin secured a bronze medal.[11] In February 2024, Atkin finished in third position at Mammoth Mountain after a snowstorm prevented the final round from being staged.[12] Later that month, Atkin won halfpipe bronze at the World Cup meeting in Calgary.[13] Two days later, she won a silver medal in the same event at a second World Cup meeting in Calgary. She finished the World Cup series in overall third position.[14] In December 2024, she won a silver medal in the World Cup event in Aspen, Colorado, her first top-3 finish of the season.[15] Atkin jointly won the crystal globe for the 2024-2025 season along with Li Fanghui.[16]
In March 2025, Atkin won the halfpipe gold medal at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships.[17][18]
In December 2025, Atkin finished second in the halfpipe at the World Cup event in China which was won by Eileen Gu.[19]
Personal life
Atkin is the younger sister of fellow skier Izzy Atkin; both were born in the United States to an English father and Chinese-Malaysian mother, and have competed for Great Britain from a young age.[20][21] Atkin was born in Newton, Massachusetts and grew up in the east coast before moving to Park City, Utah to pursue skiing with her sister. Atkin enrolled at Stanford University in 2022 and is a full-time student while competing internationally.[22]
References
- ^ "Zoe ATKIN". Beijing 2022 Olympics. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Field, Pippa (28 December 2019). "Skiing's Sister Act: World Cup winner Zoe Atkin, 16, carving out her own path after sibling Izzy's Olympic success". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Zoe Atkin, sister of Olympic ski medallist Izzy, wins first World Cup halfpipe title". BBC Sport. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021 results
- ^ "Zoe Atkin: British 18-year-old wins halfpipe bronze at World Championships". bbc.co.uk. 12 March 2021.
- ^ Qualification results
- ^ Final results
- ^ "Freeski World Championships: Britain's Zoe Atkin wins halfpipe silver". BBC Sport. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "X Games: Britain's Zoe Atkin wins first gold in Ski Superpipe". BBC Sport. 29 January 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Monster Energy Women's Ski SuperPipe". X Games. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "GB Snowsport Reflects on Successful Season". PLANETSKI. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Canada's Amy Fraser awarded 1st World Cup gold after women's ski halfpipe final cancelled". The Canadian Press. Canadian broadcasting Corporation. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Zoe Atkin: Briton wins World Cup halfpipe bronze in Calgary". BBC Sport. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "World Cup: Zoe Atkin wins freeski halfpipe silver in Calgary". BBC Sport. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Atkin wins halfpipe silver at World Cup in Colorado". BBC Sport. 21 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Atkin shares World Cup title with China's Li". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "GB's Atkin wins women's world freeski halfpipe gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ El-Shaboury, Yara (30 March 2025). "Zoe Atkin crowns stellar season with world freeski halfpipe gold". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 April 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "GB's Atkin wins silver at halfpipe World Cup event". BBC Sport. 13 December 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ Izzie Atkin: The US-born Team GB star who grew up on Marmite and Ribena, Matt McGeehan, Evening Standard, 17 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2022
- ^ Izzy and Zoe Atkin interview: Qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing would be a dream, Eurosport, 4 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2022
- ^ Zoe Atkin Biography Retrieved 25 April 2023