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Birth name | Sage Cullen Kotsenburg[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, U.S. | July 27, 1993||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) (2014)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) (2014)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Snowboarding | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Turned pro | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sage Kotsenburg (born July 27, 1993) is an American snowboarder. He won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in men's snowboard slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, and became the first gold medalist at these Olympics. Kotsenburg won a silver medal in snowboard slopestyle at the 2012 Winter X Games XVI in Aspen, Colorado, behind Mark McMorris.[3] Kotsenburg won a bronze medal in Snowboard Big Air at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Torstein Horgmo and Sebastien Toutant.[4]