Anna
Gasser

Courageous, broad-minded and open – that's the way that Anna Gasser describes herself. In November 2013 she proved all of these traits with a single trick – becoming the first woman to complete a Cab Double Cork 900. Overnight, the Austrian became the shooting star of a new generation of female freestylers.

“I was always an active child,” says Anna, in looking back to the start of her sporting career, which began well away from the pistes. It wasn’t snowboarding but gymnastics that she discovered at an early age – first as a hobby, but later as an artistic gymnast. At the age of 15 she had had enough. “It was way too time consuming,” she says, as she shakes her head.