Born in
Southampton, England, he competed for
Great Britain at the
2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi. Morgan finished 10th in the
men's slopestyle final. Morgan achieved his first podium finish in an
FIS Snowboard World Cup event at the World Cup Finals meeting at
Sierra Nevada, Spain in March 2013, where he finished third in the slopestyle competition. He finished the 2012-13 season ranked second in snowboard slopestyle in the FIS World Ranking List. Morgan has won three
medals at FIS World Cup. Morgan first took up snowboarding at the age of fourteen on a
dry slope after previously competing in
acrobatic gymnastics. In April 2015, Morgan landed the world's first "quad cork". The following day, Morgan noted of the Quad Cork "We’d done a bunch of riding that morning, just prepping for it, and had a reshape on the jump. After that, the quicker I did it the better. I thought ‘right, if I don’t do it now, I wont have the minerals to do it’ so I went back up, composed myself, and just sent it.". He took his first
X Games medal in February 2016 at X Games Oslo, where he finished third in the
big air competition. Competing at the
2018 Winter Olympics in
Pyeongchang, Morgan won the bronze medal in the
Big Air event. In an interview published on 23 April 2021, Morgan confirmed he had officially retired from Olympic competition and expressed his desire to serve as an ambassador for the sport to spread snowboarding to younger generations. ==Personal life==