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Su Yiming (Chinese: 苏翊鸣; pinyin: Sū Yìmíng; born 18 February 2004) is a Chinese snowboarder, an Olympic champion and former child actor. By winning the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air event at Steamboat Ski Resort on 4 December 2021, he became the first Chinese snowboarder to take a World Cup podium position.
Su Yiming has become an Olympic gold medallist, an Olympic silver medallist, a Chinese national hero, and a snowboarding idol to tens of millions of young aspiring boarders - all before his 18th birthday, today 18 February.
SU Yiming is on his way to becoming a household name at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The 17-year-old Chinese snowboarder upstaged his hero Mark McMorris and reigning Olympic slopestyle champion Redmond Gerard to post the best score in qualification on Sunday (6 February).
Feb 19, 2022 · Su Yiming, who made history for China by winning the snowboard men's slopestyle silver and the snowboard men's big air gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, celebrated his 18th birthday on Friday.
Feb 15, 2022 · China's Su Yiming claimed a second snowboard medal at the Winter Olympics as the teenager won a stunning gold in the men's big air event in Beijing. Slopestyle silver medallist Su, 17, scored...
Su Yiming: Olympic champion on life changes after Beijing and re-finding motivation. The Chinese snowboarder, who won gold at his home Olympic Games at Beijing 2022, spoke to Olympics.com about bouncing back from the post-Games blues.
His gold is China's sixth of the Games, its most at any Winter Olympics, surpassing the five collected at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Su Yiming, 17, adds to his slopestyle silver from a week ago for China's first-ever gold in men's snowboarding.
