The Most Famous
SKIERS from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Skiers. The pantheon dataset contains 817 Skiers, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 31st most number of Skiers behind Mexico, and Uzbekistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Skiers of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Skiers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Annelise Coberger (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 42.33, Annelise Coberger is the most famous New Zealander Skier. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Annelise Coberger (born 16 September 1971) is a New Zealand former alpine skier. Born in Christchurch, she became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the slalom at Albertville in France in 1992. For this success, at the annual Halberg Awards she was awarded the title of New Zealand Sportsman of the Year. Coberger also competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer but did not finish her first run of the slalom. Coberger remained the only Winter Olympic medalist from New Zealand for 26 years until Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won bronze in the women's big air at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Coberger won one World Cup slalom and reached seven other World Cup podiums. In the 1992–93 season, she was the runner-up in the Slalom World Cup with just 6 points behind the winner Vreni Schneider. Coberger finished competing at an international level a couple of years after her Olympic success (her last World Cup race was in March 1995). She then joined the New Zealand Police. She has two children, born in 2002 and 2004.
2. Nico Porteous (b. 2001)
With an HPI of 24.03, Nico Porteous is the 2nd most famous New Zealander Skier. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Nico Porteous (born 23 November 2001) is a New Zealand freestyle skier and an Olympic champion. He is New Zealand's youngest Olympic Games medallist, having won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics at the age of 16. He became New Zealand's second Winter Olympic gold medallist, and first male, with his win in men's halfpipe at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as New Zealander skiers born between 1971 and 2001. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living New Zealander skiers include Annelise Coberger, and Nico Porteous.
