Para snowboarding superstar Ben Tudhope has reached a remarkable milestone, becoming the first Australian winter athlete to claim 50 World Cup medals after adding two silvers at the FIS Para Snowboard World Cup in Austria.
His 50 World Cup podiums cement his status among the greats of Australian snow sports, alongside legends such as Michael Milton, Simon Patmore and Olympic moguls champion Jakara Anthony. In total, he has now collected 59 international medals across World Cup, Paralympic and World Championships events, highlighting his consistency and impact over more than a decade at the top.
Tudhope made his Paralympic debut at Sochi 2014 as a 14-year-old, the youngest athlete at those Games, and carried the Australian flag at the Closing Ceremony. He later co-captained the Australian team at Beijing 2022, where he won bronze in the snowboard cross SB-LL2 and again served as Closing Ceremony flag bearer, before securing World Championship gold in Spain the following year.
Through it all, Ben credits a simple love of snowboarding and having fun on the mountain as the key to his performance, saying that joy and playfulness on snow underpin his drive to reach the podium at every race. Now 26 and heading towards his fourth Paralympic Games at Milano Cortina, he is deep in a heavy World Cup competition block as he fine-tunes his riding and helps lead an exciting Australian Para snowboard team.