'You legend': Tess Coady claims Australia's first Winter Games medal

Australian snowboarder Tess Coady has won Australia's first medal of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, claiming bronze in the women's slopestyle.

Coady, 21, recorded her best score of 84.15 points in the third and final run to take home bronze in Sunday's final.

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It was the 16th medal won by Australia at a Winter Olympics and the fifth in a snowboarding discipline.

Coady was selected to make her Games debut four years ago in PyeongChang, but was unable to compete after tearing her ACL in a practice run.

Sydney-born Zoi Sadowski-Synnott claimed New Zealand's first-ever Winter Games gold medal on Sunday with a score of 92.88 and American Julia Marino (87.68) pocketed the silver.

Two-time defending champion Jamie Anderson from the United States was ninth.

Coady was briefly in the gold medal position after blowing the field away with a first run score of 82.68 that included some massive aerials.

The 21-year-old was bumped down the leaderboard in the second set of runs but still remained in the medal positions going into her final leg.

The Aussie left her best run for last, with the whopping 84.15 seeing her fall just short of snatching the silver medal.

Nevertheless, Coady was over the moon with her bronze medal, raising her arms in triumph at the end of her final run.

Aussie fans took to social media in droves to congratulate Coady on becoming the country's first medallist of the Beijing Winter Games.

with AAP

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