BETA SAÚDE
Meghan Tierney
Texto da Wikipédia (en), licença CC BY-SA. O BETARUBI mostra o verbete inteiro nesta página — a leitura não continua fora do site.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 15, 1997 (age 29) Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Home town | Eagle, Colorado, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  United States |
| Sport | Snowboarding |
Event | Snowboard Cross |
Meghan Tierney (born January 15, 1997)[1] is a two time American Olympic snowboarder who specializes in snowboard cross. She represented the United States at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.[1][2]
Early life, family and education
Born in Long Branch, New Jersey,[3] Tierney was raised in nearby Rumson and Little Silver.[4] She began snowboarding at age ten. Her family moved to Edwards, Colorado to allow Meghan and her siblings, Chris, Daniel, and Makayla, to further their snowboarding training.[1][4] Meghan attended the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy for her first two years of high school before transferring to the International Snowboard Training Center.[5]
Career
At the Junior level, Tierney placed 4th in snowboard cross (SBX) at the 2014 FIS Junior World Championships and 15th in snowboard cross at the 2016 FIS Junior World Championships.[3] Tierney is the only US athlete ever to win both the NORAM and Europa Cup Championships. She also took 10th place at the 2016 X Games in snowboard cross.
In November 2016, Tierney fell during a training camp in Austria, breaking the L3 vertebrae in her back.[4][5] The injury forced Tierney to sit out the rest of the 2016–17 season.[4] Tierney placed 25th and 31st in her first World Cup races of the 2017–18 season.[6] Tierney finished the final World Cup race before Olympic selection in seventh, the top-placing American woman at the event.[5] She was selected to compete in snowboard cross for the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang where she placed 17th.[4][7]
On January 24, 2022, Tierney was named to the 2022 US Olympic Team.[8] She represented the United States at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in snowboard cross where she placed 12th.[9]
References
- 1 2 3 "Meghan Tierney". U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- ↑ "Meghan TIERNEY". olympics.com. Beijing 2022 Olympics. Archived from the original on February 10, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- 1 2 "Meghan Tierney". Team USA. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
Birthplace: Long Branch, N.J.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - 1 2 3 4 5 Edelson, Stephen (January 25, 2018). "Winter Olympics: Monmouth County native Meghan Tierney headed to South Korea". app.com. Asbury Park Press. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Meghan Tierney was the young American girl competing in the rough-and-tumble world of international snowboard cross, challenging the top female snowboarders on the planet on icy turns and big-air jumps at harrowing speeds down the most treacherous courses.... Now Tierney, who grew up in Rumson and Little Silver, joins teammates like silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis, her idol and former instructor, who was teaching her jumps at an early age, on the biggest stage in winter sports.
- 1 2 3 LaConte, John (January 25, 2018). "Eagle's Meghan Tierney makes Olympics". vaildaily.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Meghan DANIEL - Athlete Biography - Snowboard". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Snowboard Results - PyeongChang (KOR) 2017/2018". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ "U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Announces 222-Member 2022 U.S. Olympic Team". www.usopc.org. January 24, 2022. Retrieved June 9, 2026.
- ↑ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Snowboard Results - Beijing (CHN) 2021/2022". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
External links
- Meghan Tierney at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Meghan Tierney at Team USA (archive)
- Meghan Tierney at Olympics.com
- Meghan Tierney at Olympedia
- Meghan Tierney at the X Games (archived)
 | This biographical article related to snowboarding in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |