Wānaka’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (20 years of age) has blitzed a field of top snowboarders with a win in the snowboard slopestyle final at the prestigious invite only Dew Tour this morning.

Zoi held a comfortable lead going into her third and final run but rather than taking it easy she stepped things up with a huge switch back 900 to score 97.75 out of a possible 100 points.

“I am pretty stoked, Dew Tour was the first invite only competition that I ever got invited to so to come back and do well, I am super stoked,” Zoi said. 

“The speed was there this morning and I managed to do what I wanted to do”. 

Zoi took control of the competition with a technical and stylish first run. Her rail section consisted of a transfer to the wall ride, boardslide 270 out on the flat down and a 270 on, out switch on the down bar with a slight revert on landing.  

Although the speed was proving an issue for some riders Zoi carried her speed into the jump section, linking together a switch backside 540, a frontside 720 melon grab with a back 900 and was rewarded with an 88.50 that put her in the top spot. 

Coming into run two Zoi wanted to clean up her run and improve the execution. She did just that and upped her score to a 95.00. 

“I am so stoked to put that down [second run], I actually did a revert in the middle of my last run. I am stoked that I landed it so now I can build on it,” Zoi said.

Her third run rendered her untouchable with a seven point advantage over second place Enni Rukajarvi (Finland), with Kokomo Murase (Japan) third.

Watch the final here

 Zoi is in the New Zealand team for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games which will take place in China from February 4-20, 2022.

See the full results here.

PHOTO: Snow Sports NZ