Josie Baff

Josephine Louise Baff (born 25 January 2003 in Cooma, New South Wales) is an Australian Olympic champion snowboarder who specialises in snowboard cross. She represented Australia at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics, winning the women's snowboard cross in 2026.

She also competed in and won the gold medal at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, made her professional debut at the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, and won the silver medal at the 2023 Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships.

Early career Baff began skiing at age two and learnt how to ski at five years old. Her father was a ski instructor and ran snowboard camps of which Baff attended, as the family would do back-to-back seasons between Australia and Europe/America.

Baff earned podium finishes in the 2019 Canadian Junior nationals (first), 2019 Australian New Zealand Cup (second) and 2019 NorAm (third). She then attended the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland and claimed the gold medal in the snowboard cross event. This was the first gold medal by an Australian at the Youth Olympic Winter Games.

Baff began the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup in the second round at Montafon, Austria finishing ninth. She recorded a second top ten finish in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, with another ninth place in the fourth round. She then finished the season with a seventh place finish in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. In total, Baff competed in 6 of the 8 events of the World Cup season.

2022 Olympic Winter Games Following this breakout season in the World Cup, Baff qualified for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. She came 18th in her individual event and 13th in the mixed team event, partnering Adam Lambert.

Results

Year Age Individual snowboard cross Mixed team snowboard cross 2022 Beijing 19 18 13 2026 Milano Cortina 23 1 4

World Championships

Year Age Individual snowboard cross Mixed team snowboard cross 2023 Bakuriani 20 2 9 2025 Engadin 22 7 6

World Cup results by season The table below shows Baff's result per World Cup season in individual snowboard cross events. It does not include results in any team events competed in during World Cup events.

Season Events started Best finish Wins Podiums Points Rank 2020–21 9/9 1 2 4 493.00 2023–24 12/12 2 0 5 608.00 4 2024–25 9/10 2 0 3 458.00 4 2025–26 3/3 2 0 2 185.00 2

World Cup victories The table below shows all World Cup victories across individual and team World Cup events.

No. Date Location Discipline 1 4 December 2022 Les Deux Alpes, France Women's Individual 2 26 March 2023 Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada Women's Individual 3 2 March 2025 Erzurum, Turkey Team