Sage Kotsenburg

Sage Kotsenburg

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1993-07-27) 27 July 1993 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
Residence	Park City, UT [1]
Height	5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) (2011)[1]
Weight	164 pounds (74 kg) (2011)[1]
Sport
Country	USA
Sport	Snowboarding
Event(s)	Big Air Slopestyle
Turned pro	2010
Medal record Competitor for  United States Men's Snowboarding Olympic Games Gold 2014 Sochi Slopestyle Winter X Games Silver 2010 Tignes Slopestyle Silver 2012 Aspen Slopestyle Bronze 2011 Aspen Big Air

Sage Kotsenburg (born 27 July, 1993) is an American snowboarder. He won the first ever gold medal in Snowboard Slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. He won a silver medal in Snowboard Slopestyle at the 2012 Winter X Games XVI in Aspen, Colorado, behind Mark McMorris.^[2] He won a bronze medal in Snowboard Big Air at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Torstein Horgmo and Sebastien Toutant.^[3]

Career

Sage Kotsenburg was named to the 2014 US Olympic Snowboard Team for Slopestyle. He is competing in Sochi alongside Chas Guldemond and Mark McMorris.

Kotsenburg made his US Open debut at the age of 12. He has won Winter X Games XVI Slopestyle silver in 2012 and also won Slopestyle silver at European X Games 2010. He landed the first-ever Cab double cork 1440 at Air & Style in Innsbruck in February 2011, took third at the 2011 Arctic Challenge and was named to the U.S. Snowboarding Slopestyle Pro Team in December 2011. ^[1]

During the summers Sage Kotsenburg trains on Mt. Hood at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. The summer of 2014, Sage and his Lick the Cat crew have been awarded a Signature Session.^[4]

Personal

Sage was born in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho but grew up in Park City, Utah. Sage has two older brothers, Jeremy and Blaze, and a younger sister, Kirra. At the age of five alongside his older brother Blaze, who is also a snowboarder, he started snowboarding. Sage, Blaze and younger sister, Kirra all ride together, while their mom, Carol Ann, helps out as Sage’s travel agent. Sage's oldest brother, Jeremy, is a Space officer in the US Air Force. Sage's dad, Steve Kotsenburg is a successful real estate agent in Park City, UT. The entire Kotsenburg Family snowboards.

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