Wanaka teen Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has broken New Zealand's 26-year drought at the Winter Olympics with a bronze medal in the snowboard big air.

The 16-year-old notched - to that point - the best individual score of the day with a 92.00 in the second of her three runs.

That performance put her briefly into second and she entered the final round in third, still with a chance for better.