Which nation won its first Winter Olympic gold medal in 2022?

New Zealand won its first Winter Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Games. Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott made history by winning the women's slopestyle event on 6 February 2022.

Sadowski-Synnott trailed Julia Marino of the United States before producing a spectacular final run that earned a score of 92.88. The victory ended New Zealand's long wait for a Winter Olympic gold after the country had first competed at the Winter Games in 1952.

Her achievement was part of a breakthrough Games for New Zealand. She later won silver in women's big air, while Nico Porteous captured gold in the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe. New Zealand finished Beijing 2022 with two gold medals and one silver.

A common mix-up is confusing New Zealand's first Winter Olympic medal with its first gold. Annelise Coberger won the nation's first Winter Olympic medal—a silver in alpine skiing—in 1992. The 2022 slopestyle title was specifically the country's first gold.