Wānaka’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (23) has secured her third World Cup snowboard win by claiming the FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup in Aspen, Colorado this morning (February 3). 

Zoi’s win comes just a week after she won gold at the 2025 Aspen X Games, landing a ‘never been done before’ backside triple corked 1440 in the women’s snowboard slopestyle competition.  

As the top qualifier in today’s final, Zoi earned the advantage of dropping last into each of the two finals runs. She put down a solid first run that had her sitting in the top spot, but with a couple of bobbles on the rails.

Kokomo Murase of Japan put down a strong second run, which bumped Zoi off the top spot. She managed the pressure and put down her winning run, tidying up the rail section and then lacing back-to-back double corked 1080’s on the last two jumps.

“I watched her [Kokomo’s] last run and knew it was going to knock my first run score so I knew that I needed to clean up that rail section and I am stoked how it came out, stepping it up from X Games last week,” Zoi said.

Zoi won by a significant margin as the only woman to score in the 80’s with an 87.80. Kokomo finished in second place with Great Britain’s Mia Brookes rounding out the star-studded podium in third.

The men’s snowboard slopestyle World Cup finals also went down in Aspen this morning, with Kiwi’s Dane Menzies (Wānaka based) and Rocco Jamieson (Wānaka) dropping in. Dane had a career best result, finishing in fourth place and putting down a frontside 1800 for his first time in a slopestyle run. Rocco finished in twelfth.

Watch Zoi's winning run here.

The action continues this morning with Fin Melville Ives (Wānaka) and Luke Harrold (Lake Hāwea) dropping into the freeski halfpipe World Cup finals.

PHOTOS: FIS Park & Pipe.