Snowboarder has won Australia's first medal at Beijing Winter Olympics

Australian snowboarder Tess Coady has won Australia's first medal of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, claiming bronze in the women's slopestyle.

Coady, 21, recorded her best score of 84.15 points in the third and final run of Sunday's final.

It was the 16th medal won by Australia at a Winter Olympics and the fifth in a snowboarding discipline.

Coady was selected to make her Games debut four years ago in PyeongChang, but was unable to compete after tearing her ACL in a practice run.

Sydney-born Zoi Sadowski-Synnott claimed New Zealand's first-ever Winter Games gold medal on Sunday with a score of 92.88 and American Julia Marino (87.68) pocketed the silver.

Sadowski-Synnott trailed Marino going into the final round but pulled out an incredible performance to take the title with the last run of the competition.

The 20-year-old launched into a massive jump with her final trick to earn a winning score of 92.88, before being mobbed at the finish by Marino and Coady.

A large New Zealand flag and another bearing the country's black fern symbol could be seen among the crowd.

New Zealand had previously won one silver and two bronze medals at the Winter Olympics -- including a third-place finish for Sadowski Synnott in the Big Air competition at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Sadowski-Synnott dazzled the judges by grinding along rails, leaping off huge jumps and sliding along the roof of a traditional Chinese house made from snow en route to the gold.

Two-time defending champion Jamie Anderson from the United States was ninth.