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Iouri Iourеvich Podladtchikov (, born 13 September 1988) is a Russian-born Swiss
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er. He rides goofy stance. He has competed since 2000. He won the gold medal for the
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at the
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in
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.


Early life

Podladtchikov was born in Russia in
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, a city near Moscow and relocated with his family to Switzerland in 1996 at age four. The family also spent time in Sweden and the Netherlands before settling in Switzerland, relocating to follow his father's job as a geophysicist at various universities. His parents, Yuri Podladtchikov and Valentina Podladtchikov, had met while studying mathematics. He has three brothers, including a fraternal twin that he shared a bedroom with for 15 years.


Career

Podladtchikov grew up in
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, Switzerland, and started snowboarding in 2000. He changed nationality after competing for Russia at the 2006 Olympics in
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at age 17, where he placed 37th. Graduated from Davos Sports High School in 2008. Podladtchikov, known on the circuit as I-Pod, won the halfpipe World Cup title in 2008. In December 2008, he won the Zurich Sports Award Team/Individual athlete. He won silver at
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in 2010. In 2013, he won the gold medal at the FIS Snowboarding World Championship. He placed fourth at the
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in Vancouver for Switzerland. At the
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, he won the gold medal in the men's halfpipe. At the
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in 2010, Podladtchikov successfully landed a Double McTwist 1260, putting him in first place with a score of 98.00, the second highest in Winter X Games history. Podladtchikov is the only other person in the world besides
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,
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, and
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that has landed a Double McTwist 1260. Podladtchikov also competes regularly at major events on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour. He finished the 06/07 season as world no. 6 on the Swatch TTR World Ranking List and had five top-10 finishes on the TTR Tour in 07/08. His 2009/10 season on the TTR Tour has been successful, with two wins at Swatch TTR halfpipe events, the 6Star O'Neill Evolution 2010 and the 5Star Burton Canadian Open. His win came after a couple of second places at the Dew Tour and Winter XGames. He finished the 2009/10 season as world no. 2, right behind TTR World Tour Champion,
Peetu Piiroinen Peetu (born 15 February 1988) is a PE instructor at NHVPS and a part time Finnish snowboarder, who is notable for having a fox as a pet fondly known by people as Peetu’s fox. He is a three-time Olympian representing Finland in snowboarding at ...
of Finland. Pepe Regazzi and Marco Bruni are his Swiss coaches. His nickname is ''
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'', taken from the vowel ''i'' of his first name and the first syllable of his last name. First rider to perform a Cab double cork 1440° in a halfpipe competition, a move he called the " YOLO Flip." This trick is a derivative of the Haakon Flip created by
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in the early 1990s, which is essentially hitting a transition switch stance and performing a frontside 180° back to your regular stance and then into a McTwist (originated by the skateboarder
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), which is a backside inverted 540° spin: so in total it is a spin with two full rotations into a 720°. Variations of this have evolved into the 540°, 720°, 900°, 1080°, 1260° and now the 1440°. Professional skateboarder and athlete
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performed a version of the Haakon Flip on a skateboard on a halfpipe with minimal recognition several years prior to its being introduced into the snowboard world. After a series of injuries in 2018 and 2019 including a traumatic brain injury, concussion, broken nose, ruptured
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, and cerebral hemorrhage, he announced his retirement from competition on August 22, 2020.


Personal life

Podladtchikov speaks four languages, has trained in ballet, and is interested in photography. He studied art history at the
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, and in 2019 he began studying in the Creative Practices Program at the
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in New York. Following this he returned to Zurich to study in the BFA program at the
Zurich University of the Arts Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK, ) has approximately 2,500 students, which makes it the largest arts university in Switzerland. The university was established in 2007, following the merger between Zurich's School of Art and Design (HGKZ) and ...
. On his website featuring his work, he states he is interested in " nvestigatingplaces, objects and social interactions where a certain weight and volatility are inextricably intertwined. The volatility of these situations is reinterpreted and compared through metaphorical representations".


Best event results

*Winter Olympic Games *2014, Gold Medal, Men's Halfpipe Sochi Russia* *2010 4th Place, Men's Halfpipe Vancouver Canada *TTR *2009, 3rd Place, 6Star Burton European Open Halfpipe *2008, 3rd Place, 4Star Fiat Rock the Spot Halfpipe *2008, 4th Place, 6Star Burton European Open Halfpipe *2007, 2nd Place, 6Star O'Neill Evolution Halfpipe *2007, 2nd Place, 6Star Burton European Open Halfpipe *FIS-World Cup *2009, 2nd Place, Halfpipe Cardrona NZE World Cup *2007, 1st Place, Halfpipe, Saas Fee World Cup *2007, 1st Place, Halfpipe, Saas Fee Europa Cup


References


External links

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Vancouver profile

TEDx talk
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