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Izzy Atkin won a historic bronze medal in the women’s ski slopestyle event on Saturday, to claim Great Britain’s first ever Winter Olympics skiing medal and their second medal of the Pyeongchang Games.
The 19-year-old, the youngest member of the British team, retained her composure to soar to third place at Phoenix Snow Park.
She scored 84.60 with her final run to claim Britain's second bronze, after Dom Parsons' men's skeleton third place on Friday.
Switzerland's Sarah Hoefflin, who spent part of her youth in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and went to university in Cardiff, won with 91.20 ahead of her team-mate Mathilde Gremaud.
"I still can't believe it. I'm really overwhelmed. I'm just really happy," Atkin said.
"I'm really proud of how I skied in that last run. I would have been stoked with anything but I am really happy with third."
Atkin, who is based in Park City, Utah, and has British and Malaysian parents, was persuaded to compete for Britain by Park and Pipe ski head coach Pat Sharples, who was aware of her dual nationality.
"She's been the dark horse, the little quiet girl who has come from behind and this is just the start of her career," Sharples said.
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Atkin qualified in fourth and was in third place after two runs of the final, only to drop down to fourth ahead of her final run.
Sharples was more nervous than Atkin.
"I was throwing up," he added. "I knew they would have to put down big runs but I had just drunk loads of water and I just couldn't handle it all. I was throwing my guts up."
Katie Summerhayes, world silver medallist in 2015, scored 71.40 for her second run of the three-run final, good enough for seventh.
Atkin was awarded 79.40 for her second run to move to third entering the final run, which she began knowing she needed to improve to get on the podium. And she did for an historic British medal on skis.
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