Jenny Jones’ bronze medal in Slopestyle at Sochi proved that you don’t need loads of snow or hills to get to the top of snowboarding. And Bristol, UK, her hometown, definitely doesn’t have either. After being a successful gymnast as a junior, Jenny started her snowboarding career after going to a free half-hour lesson at her local dry-slope.
Soon after, she left college and moved to France to pursue the sport full-time on quality terrain. From 2009 through 2010, Jenny won three consecutive X Games Gold Medals, definitively establishing herself as the most globally respected and successful women’s snowboarder to come out of the United Kingdom, and her bronze was the first ever Olympic medal won by a Brit on the snow.