Elena Hight (born August 17, 1989, in Kauai) is an American Olympic snowboarder.

In May 2012, while training with the U.S. snowboard team in Mammoth, California, Hight became the first snowboarder to land a double backside alley-oop rodeo in halfpipe competition.

Elena Hight

On January 26, 2013, at Winter X Games XVII, Hight became the first snowboarder to land a double backside alley-oop rodeo during a halfpipe competition.

Elena Hight

Athletic achievements

Two-time Olympian

X Games Gold Medalist

Seven-time X Games Medalist

Burton US Open Champion

First female to land a frontside 900 in competition at 13 years old

First snowboarder to land a double backside alley-oop rodeo in a halfpipe contest at the 2013 Winter X Games Featured in the 2013 ESPN Magazine Body Issue Oxygen Magazine's February 2014 Cover Girl Included in the coveted all women's feature film Full Moon First Women to pursue a wholly human powered project with snowboarding Icon Jeremy Jones Experience Magazine's November 2018 Cover Girl Explored alongside Jeremy Jones for feature film Ode To Muir First female to ride the infamous Tahoe Grizzly Spines

Elena Hight

References

ESPN Body Issue

Oxygen Magazine

B4BC Cookbook collaboration

Women's Sports Foundation partnership

External links

1989 births

American female snowboarders

Living people

Olympic snowboarders for the United States

Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Sportspeople from Hawaii

Sportspeople from Kauai County, Hawaii

Sportspeople from California

X Games athletes

People from South Lake Tahoe, California

Sportspeople from El Dorado County, California

21st-century American women