Hannah Teter

	Hannah Teter
Full name	Hannah Lee Teter
nation	United States
birthday	27th January 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Belmont , Vermont , USA
size	170 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	halfpipe
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
Snowboard world championships
X-Games
Snowboard Junior World Championships
	Placements
	World cup
Debut in the World Cup	September 12, 2002
World Cup victories	06th
Overall World Cup	12. ( 2002/03 )
Freestyle World Cup	17. ( 2014/15 )
Halfpipe World Cup	04. ( 2014/15 )
	TTR World Snowboard Tour
Overall rating	19. (2012/13)
Halfpipe rating	6. (2012/13)
	last change: July 9, 2017

Hannah Lee Teter (born January 27, 1987 in Belmont , Vermont ) is an American snowboarder . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , she became an Olympic champion in the halfpipe competition, after winning the Winter X-Games in 2004.

Career

Teter comes from a snowboarding family and, like her brothers, grew up playing sports. Her brother Amen Teter acts as a coach and manager and accompanies her with the rest of her family to almost every competition.

Teter has been participating in competitions of the FIS and the TTR World Snowboard Tour since 2001 . She reached her first podium finish in March 2002 with second place in slopestyle at the Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain Resort . At the beginning of the 2002/03 season she drove her first FIS World Cup race in Valle Nevado , which she finished in fourth place. In December 2002 she won the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Park City on the halfpipe . This was followed by a second place on the halfpipe at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix on Mount Bachelor and a third place in slopestyle at the Burton US Open 2003 at Stratton Mountain Resort . At the Winter X Games 2003 she won bronze on the halfpipe. In March 2003 she won her first FIS World Cup victory in Sapporo .

Since the 2003/04 season she has only competed in the halfpipe discipline. The following season she won the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Park City and in Mammoth . At the Winter X Games 2004 in Aspen , she won gold on the halfpipe. She won the FIS World Cup in Valle Nevado and Sapporo. She finished the season in 12th place in the FIS Overall World Cup and first place in the halfpipe rating in the US Grand Prix.

Snowboard World Championships 2005

At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Teter won her fourth FIS World Cup in Saas-Fee . This season further victories at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Breckenridge and at the World Superpipe Championships in Park City followed . In January 2005 she won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Snowboard Championships in Whistler and a week later at the 2005 Winter X Games . Also that season she finished third at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Mountain Creek and at the Burton US Open 2005 in Stratton Mountain Resort .

In the first two FIS World Cup races of the 2005/06 season in Valle Nevado , she achieved World Cup victories five and six. She won the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Breckenridge and took second place at Mount Bachelor . She took third place in Mountain Creek .

Gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics

In February 2006, Teter won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in the halfpipe competition. In the 2007/08 season she came third at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Breckenridge and the Burton European Open in Laax .

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season, Teter won the Burton Australian Open in Perisher Blue . This was followed by podium finishes at the Winter Dew Tour and another win at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Boreal. She won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games 2009 . In February 2009 she finished second in FIS World Cup races in Bardonecchia and third in Cypress .

Silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics

In January 2010 she won bronze at the Winter X Games 2010 in Aspen . Two weeks later she could not defend her title in the halfpipe competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and won silver. In March 2011 she won at the Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain Resort in second place. In the same month she won the silver medal at the Winter X Games Europe 2011 in Tignes . At the beginning of the 2011/12 season she occupied the Burton New Zealand Open in Cardrona .

She won bronze at the Winter X Games 2012 . In the 2012/13 season she achieved a top ten placement in all participating races. At the Burton US Open 2013 in Vail , she took second place. She finished the season in sixth place in the tour halfpipe rating. In February 2014, she reached fourth place at the Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the US Snowboarding Grand Prix and FIS World Cup races in December 2014 in Copper Mountain , she came third. At the Winter X Games 2015 she was seventh on the superpipe. The following year she took sixth place at the Winter X Games 2016 and eighth place at the X Games Oslo 2016 .

Winter X Games 2017

In the 2016/17 season she was eighth in the Winter X Games 2017 and third in the US Snowboarding Grand Prix and World Cup in Mammoth .

Private

With her private foundation Hannah's Gold , Teter is committed to social issues and is also a global ambassador for the Special Olympics .

In 2005 she starred in the film First Descent .

Awards

2010 USOC Athlete of the Year

Web links

Hannah Teter in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Hannah Teter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Profile of Hannah Teter on the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour
Hannah Teter at X-Games
Hannah Teter on ussnowboarding.com

Individual evidence

^ First Descent (2005). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 27, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Teter, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teter, Hannah Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American snowboarder
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belmont , Vermont , United States

[1] First Descent (2005). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 27, 2016 .