Jarryd Hughes

Jarryd Hughes
nation	Australia
birthday	21st May 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Wahroonga
Career
discipline	Snowboard cross
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Pyeongchang 2018 Snowboard cross  Snowboard Junior World Championships silver 2012 Sierra Nevada Snowboard cross
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup February 21, 2012  World Cup victories 1  Snowboard cross world cup 4. ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Snowboard cross 2 1 0
last change: December 19, 2017

Jarryd Hughes (born May 21, 1995 in Wahroonga ) is an Australian snowboarder . He starts in snowboard cross.

Career

Hughes participated in the Nor-Am Cup from 2010 to 2012. He drove his first World Cup race in February 2012 in Stoneham , which he finished in tenth place. At the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2012 in Sierra Nevada , he won silver in snowboard cross. At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham , he came 11th. In December 2013 he won his first and so far only World Cup race in Lake Louise .

In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , Hughes came 17th. He finished the season in fourth place in the snowboard cross ranking. At the Snowboard World Championships 2015 on Kreischberg he came in 31st place. The following year he won the gold medal at the Winter X Games 2016 . In the 2016/17 season he achieved four top ten placements in the World Cup, including second place in Feldberg and seventh place in the snowboard cross world cup at the end of the season. At the season highlight of the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada , he came in 34th.

In December 2017, Hughes won the 2017/18 World Cup race in snowboard cross in Schruns . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the silver medal in snowboard cross. The following year he finished 35th at the World Championships in Park City .

World Cup victories and overall World Cup placements

World Cup victories

No.	date	place
1.	December 21, 2013	Lake Louise
2.	December 16, 2017	Montafon

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
2011/12	31.	500
2012/13	56.	124
2013/14	4th	2090
2014/15	8th.	842
2015/16	29	740
2016/17	7th	2068
2017/18	14th	2025.1
2018/19	28.	488
2019/20	20th	845

Web links

• Jarryd Hughes in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jarryd Hughes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hämmerle and Schairer at Snowboardcross in Montafon am Stockerl (December 16, 2017)