Three days after Lindsey Jacobellis became the oldest U.S. Olympian at age 36 to win a gold medal—in snowboard cross—she won her second in the new mixed snowboard cross team event. The Feb. 12 victory moved her to the second-oldest American gold medal winner as her teammate is 40-year-old Nick Baumgartner.
Jacobellis is from Roxbury, Connecticut, and is considered the most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, dominating the sport for nearly two decades.
A five-time world champion and ten-time X Games champion, Jacobellis missed her golden Olympic opportunity at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, where she settled for silver after falling from a premature celebratory “method grab” while airborne.
“This was just the cherry on top,” said Jacobellis. “It was really exciting that we were able to team up and we’ve never actually been teamed up in a team event before. So I was really excited that everything went well today.”
Lindsey Jacobellis of Team United States (L) and Michela Moioli of Team Italy compete during the snowboard mixed team cross big final on Day 8 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 12, 2022. Lars Baron/Getty Images
