Jamie Nicholls (snowboarder)
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Personal information | |
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Born | Bradford, England |
21 July 1993
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight | 148 lb (67 kg) |
Sport | |
Country | Great Britain |
Sport | Snowboarding |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic finals | 2014 |
Jamie Nicholls (born 21 July 1993 in Bradford) is a British snowboarder who competes in slopestyle.[1]
At FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013 Nicholls finished 14th. His best World Cup result before the 2014 Olympics was the sixth place finish in Stoneham on 19 January 2014.[1]
Nicholls qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. On 6 February 2014 in the qualification event Nicholls finished the fourth in his heat and qualified directly for the final.[2] He finished 6th in the men's slopestyle final at the 2014 Winter Olympics.[3]
He became the first British male snowboarder to win a World Cup event when he finished top of the standings in the final slopestyle event of the 2015-16 season, the Audi Snowjam in Spindleruv Mlyn in the Czech Republic, helping him to fifth in the slopestyle World Cup rankings for the season.[4]
Competitive History
- 2014 Winter Olympics
Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||||||||
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Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Rank | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Rank | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Rank | |
Men's slopestyle | 62.25 | 86.75 | 86.75 | 4 QF | Bye | 85.50 | 46.50 | 85.50 | 6th |
Year | Event | Discipline | Finish |
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2010 | Burton New Zealand Open, Cardrona Alpine Resort | Slopestyle | 10 |
2010 | FIS World Cup Big Air, London, England | Big Air | 7 |
2011 | Burn River Jump, Livigno, ITA | Big Air | 4 |
2011 | Burn River Jump, Livigno, ITA | Slopestyle | 3 |
2011 | Burton US Open, Stratton Mtn | Slopestyle | 4 |
2011 | Relentless Big Air, Stuttgart | Big Air | 7 |
2012 | The Brits, LAAX | Slopestyle | 1 |
2013 | World Snowboard Championships, Stoneham | Slopestyle | 14 |
2013 | World Cup, Spindleruv Mlyn | Slopestyle | 15 |
2013 | World Cup, Copper Mountain | Slopestyle | 17 |
2014 | World Cup, Stoneham | Slopestyle | 6 |
2016 | World Cup, Peyonchang, South Korea | Slopestyle | 12 |
2016 | TTR Spring Battle, Austria | Slopestyle | 4th |
2016 | World cup, Spindleruv Mlyn | Slopestyle | 1st |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jamie Nicholls at the International Ski Federation
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