List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing

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Three smiling women stand side by side with one arm over each other's back. Each holds high a flower bouquet and wears a medal around the neck. On the left, a long-haired blond wears a shiny light-gray jacket and winter cap with a badge bearing the Norwegian flag and Olympic rings. On the center, another long-haired blond wears a red jacket and red-and-white winter cap. On the right, a long-haired brunette wears a white jacket with blue and red stripes on the back.
The medalists of the inaugural women's ski cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics. From left to right: Hedda Berntsen of Norway (silver), Ashleigh McIvor of Canada (gold), and Marion Josserand of France (bronze).
A smiling young man is geared up with a yellow-striped black winter jacket, black and gray protective helmet with orange lettering at the front, and winter goggles around his neck. He is at a snow-covered site along with other people.
In 2010, Michael Schmid of Switzerland won the inaugural men's ski cross event with a perfect sheet: first place in every race of the qualifying and elimination rounds.

Freestyle skiing is one of the six skiing disciplines contested at the Winter Olympic Games, and one of the youngest.[1] In 1924, the first Winter Olympics featured Nordic skiing disciplines (cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined),[2] while alpine skiing was first contested in 1936.[3] Only at the 1992 Winter Olympics, in Albertville, France, were freestyle skiing events first held as official medal events.[4] Before that, freestyle skiing was contested at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, consisting of events for both men and women in three variants: moguls, aerials and ski ballet.[5] In Albertville, moguls was the first-ever official freestyle skiing medal event; aerials and ski ballet were also held but still as demonstration events.[5] The growing popularity of aerials convinced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add this freestyle discipline to the 1994 Winter Olympics official program.[5] Moguls and aerials have thus been contested at every Winter Games since. Ski cross inclusion in the Winter Olympics program was approved at an IOC Executive Board meeting in November 2006, and the first events were held at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[6]

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, two days after Steve Bradbury gave Australia its first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal, Alisa Camplin won the freestyle aerials event, becoming the first Australian woman to win gold at the Winter Games; four years later, she collected a second consecutive medal, a bronze.[7] In 2010, the third Olympics hosted by Canada finally consecrated a Canadian athlete as Olympic champion: Alexandre Bilodeau took the gold medal in the men's moguls, overcoming defending champion Dale Begg-Smith of Australia.[8] Kari Traa of Norway has won three medals (one gold, one silver, one bronze) in three successive Games, more than any other freestyle skier at the Winter Olympics.[9] Alexandre Bilodeau and David Wise are the most successful male freestyle skiers, with two gold medals. Alexandre Bilodeau was also the first freestyle skier to win back to back gold medals when he won gold in the 2010 and 2014 moguls. The youngest freestyle skier to win an Olympic medal is Swiss Mathilde Gremaud, who secured a silver in 2018 with 18 years old, while Tatjana Mittermayer of Germany is the oldest medalist, following her silver in the 1998 moguls event, aged 33.[10][11]

Overall, 132 medals (44 of each color) have been awarded to skiers representing 22 National Olympic Committees (NOC).


Table of contents
Men

MogulsAerialsBig airSki crossHalfpipeSlopestyle

Women

MogulsAerialsBig airSki crossHalfpipeSlopestyle

Mixed

Aerials team

Statistics

Athlete medal leadersMedals per yearMedal sweep events

See also        References        External links

Men[edit]

A smiling man with long dark blond hair and a piercing in his left eyebrow is wearing a white winter sports coat over a red jacket; the white coat has a white badge with a red circle in the center.
Janne Lahtela of Finland (pictured) and Dale Begg-Smith of Australia have won two medals each (one gold and one silver) in the men's moguls.
A brown-haired and brown-eyed young man, with a goatee, wears a red-white-and-black winter cap, and a similarly colored black-lined hooded jacket over a white t-shirt.
Alexandre Bilodeau's victory in the 2010 men's moguls event made him the first-ever Canadian to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Canada. In 2014, he became the first Olympic champion in moguls who defended his title.

Moguls[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1992 Albertville
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Edgar Grospiron
 France
Olivier Allamand
 France
Nelson Carmichael
 United States
1994 Lillehammer
details
Jean-Luc Brassard
 Canada
Sergey Shupletsov
 Russia
Edgar Grospiron
 France
1998 Nagano
details
Jonny Moseley
 United States
Janne Lahtela
 Finland
Sami Mustonen
 Finland
2002 Salt Lake City
details
Janne Lahtela
 Finland
Travis Mayer
 United States
Richard Gay
 France
2006 Turin
details
Dale Begg-Smith
 Australia
Mikko Ronkainen
 Finland
Toby Dawson
 United States
2010 Vancouver
details
Alexandre Bilodeau
 Canada
Dale Begg-Smith
 Australia
Bryon Wilson
 United States
2014 Sochi
details
Alexandre Bilodeau
 Canada
Mikaël Kingsbury
 Canada
Alexandr Smyshlyaev
 Russia
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Mikaël Kingsbury
 Canada
Matt Graham
 Australia
Daichi Hara
 Japan
2022 Beijing
details
Walter Wallberg
 Sweden
Mikaël Kingsbury
 Canada
Ikuma Horishima
 Japan
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Canada 4 2 0 6
2  Finland 1 2 1 4
3  Australia 1 2 0 3
4  United States 1 1 3 5
5  France 1 1 2 4
6  Sweden 1 0 0 1
7  Russia 0 1 1 2
8  Japan 0 0 2 2

Aerials[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1994 Lillehammer
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Andreas Schönbächler
 Switzerland
Philippe LaRoche
 Canada
Lloyd Langlois
 Canada
1998 Nagano
details
Eric Bergoust
 United States
Sébastien Foucras
 France
Dmitri Dashinski
 Belarus
2002 Salt Lake City
details
Aleš Valenta
 Czech Republic
Joe Pack
 United States
Aleksei Grishin
 Belarus
2006 Turin
details
Han Xiaopeng
 China
Dmitri Dashinski
 Belarus
Vladimir Lebedev
 Russia
2010 Vancouver
details
Aleksei Grishin
 Belarus
Jeret Peterson
 United States
Liu Zhongqing
 China
2014 Sochi
details
Anton Kushnir
 Belarus
David Morris
 Australia
Jia Zongyang
 China
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Oleksandr Abramenko
 Ukraine
Jia Zongyang
 China
Ilya Burov
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
2022 Beijing
details
Qi Guangpu
 China
Oleksandr Abramenko
 Ukraine
Ilya Burov
 ROC
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Belarus
 China
2 1 2 5
3  United States 1 2 3
4  Ukraine 1 1 2
5  Czechoslovakia
 Switzerland
1 1
8  Australia
 France
1 1
9  Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Russia
 ROC
1 1

Big air[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2022 Beijing
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Birk Ruud
 Norway
Colby Stevenson
 United States
Henrik Harlaut
 Sweden
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Norway (NOR) 1 0 0 1
2  United States (USA) 0 1 0 1
3  Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1
Total 3 nations 1 1 1 3

Halfpipe[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2014 Sochi
details
David Wise
 United States
Mike Riddle
 Canada
Kevin Rolland
 France
2018 Pyeongchang
details
David Wise
 United States
Alex Ferreira
 United States
Nico Porteous
 New Zealand
2022 Beijing
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Nico Porteous
 New Zealand
David Wise
 United States
Alex Ferreira
 United States

Ski cross[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2010 Vancouver
details
Michael Schmid
 Switzerland
Andreas Matt
 Austria
Audun Grønvold
 Norway
2014 Sochi
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Jean-Frédéric Chapuis
 France
Arnaud Bovolenta
 France
Jonathan Midol
 France
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Brady Leman
 Canada
Marc Bischofberger
 Switzerland
Sergey Ridzik
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
2022 Beijing
details
Ryan Regez
 Switzerland
Alex Fiva
 Switzerland
Sergey Ridzik
 ROC

Slopestyle[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2014 Sochi
details
Joss Christensen
 United States
Gus Kenworthy
 United States
Nick Goepper
 United States
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Øystein Bråten
 Norway
Nick Goepper
 United States
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand
 Canada
2022 Beijing
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Alex Hall
 United States
Nick Goepper
 United States
Jesper Tjäder
 Sweden

Women[edit]

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Canadian skier Jennifer Heil won the women's Olympic moguls event in 2006, and achieved a silver medal in 2010.
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Evelyne Leu of Switzerland, gold medalist in the women's aerials event at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Young smiling woman with brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing earrings and a red-and-white ski jacket with the Chinese and Olympic flags. She is standing in front on a white background.
Eileen Gu, representing China, became the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a Winter Olympics in 2022.

Moguls[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1992 Albertville
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Donna Weinbrecht
 United States
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova
 Unified Team
Stine Lise Hattestad
 Norway
1994 Lillehammer
details
Stine Lise Hattestad
 Norway
Elizabeth McIntyre
 United States
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova
 Russia
1998 Nagano
details
Tae Satoya
 Japan
Tatjana Mittermayer
 Germany
Kari Traa
 Norway
2002 Salt Lake City
details
Kari Traa
 Norway
Shannon Bahrke
 United States
Tae Satoya
 Japan
2006 Turin
details
Jennifer Heil
 Canada
Kari Traa
 Norway
Sandra Laoura
 France
2010 Vancouver
details
Hannah Kearney
 United States
Jennifer Heil
 Canada
Shannon Bahrke
 United States
2014 Sochi
details
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
 Canada
Chloé Dufour-Lapointe
 Canada
Hannah Kearney
 United States
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Perrine Laffont
 France
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
 Canada
Yuliya Galysheva
 Kazakhstan
2022 Beijing
details
Jakara Anthony
 Australia
Jaelin Kauf
 United States
Anastasiia Smirnova
 ROC
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 2 3 2 7
2  Canada (CAN) 2 3 0 5
3  Norway (NOR) 2 1 2 5
5  France (FRA) 1 0 1 2
 Japan (JPN) 1 0 1 2
7  Australia (AUS) 1 0 0 1
8  Germany (GER) 0 1 0 1
 Unified Team (EUN) 0 1 0 1
10  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 0 0 1 1
 ROC 0 0 1 1
 Russia (RUS) 0 0 1 1

Aerials[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1994 Lillehammer
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Lina Cheryazova
 Uzbekistan
Marie Lindgren
 Sweden
Hilde Synnøve Lid
 Norway
1998 Nagano
details
Nikki Stone
 United States
Xu Nannan
 China
Colette Brand
 Switzerland
2002 Salt Lake City
details
Alisa Camplin
 Australia
Veronica Brenner
 Canada
Deidra Dionne
 Canada
2006 Turin
details
Evelyne Leu
 Switzerland
Li Nina
 China
Alisa Camplin
 Australia
2010 Vancouver
details
Lydia Lassila
 Australia
Li Nina
 China
Guo Xinxin
 China
2014 Sochi
details
Alla Tsuper
 Belarus
Xu Mengtao
 China
Lydia Lassila
 Australia
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Hanna Huskova
 Belarus
Zhang Xin
 China
Kong Fanyu
 China
2022 Beijing
details
Xu Mengtao
 China
Hanna Huskova
 Belarus
Megan Nick
 United States
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Belarus 2 1 3
2  Australia 2 2 4
3  China 1 5 2 8
4  Switzerland 1 1 2
5  United States
 Uzbekistan
1 1
7  Canada 1 1 2
8  Norway 1 1

Big Air[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2022 Beijing
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Eileen Gu
 China
Tess Ledeux
 France
Mathilde Gremaud
 Switzerland
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  China (CHN) 1 0 0 1
2  France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
3  Switzerland (SUI) 0 0 1 1
Total 3 nations 1 1 1 3

Halfpipe[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2014 Sochi
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Maddie Bowman
 United States
Marie Martinod
 France
Ayana Onozuka
 Japan
2018 Pyeongchang
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Cassie Sharpe
 Canada
Marie Martinod
 France
Brita Sigourney
 United States
2022 Beijing
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Eileen Gu
 China
Cassie Sharpe
 Canada
Rachael Karker
 Canada

Ski cross[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2010 Vancouver
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Ashleigh McIvor
 Canada
Hedda Berntsen
 Norway
Marion Josserand
 France
2014 Sochi
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Marielle Thompson
 Canada
Kelsey Serwa
 Canada
Anna Holmlund
 Sweden
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Kelsey Serwa
 Canada
Brittany Phelan
 Canada
Fanny Smith
 Switzerland
2022 Beijing
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Sandra Näslund
 Sweden
Marielle Thompson
 Canada
Fanny Smith
 Switzerland

Slopestyle[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2014 Sochi
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Dara Howell
 Canada
Devin Logan
 United States
Kim Lamarre
 Canada
2018 Pyeongchang
details
Sarah Höfflin
 Switzerland
Mathilde Gremaud
 Switzerland
Isabel Atkin
 Great Britain
2022 Beijing
details
Mathilde Gremaud
 Switzerland
Eileen Gu
 China
Kelly Sildaru
 Estonia
  • Medals:
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Switzerland (SUI) 2 1 0 3
2  Canada (CAN) 1 0 1 2
3  China (CHN) 0 1 0 1
 United States (USA) 0 1 0 1
5  Estonia (EST) 0 0 1 1
 Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 1 1
Total 6 nations 3 3 3 9

Mixed[edit]

Aerials team[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2022 Beijing
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 United States (USA)
Ashley Caldwell
Christopher Lillis
Justin Schoenefeld
 China (CHN)
Xu Mengtao
Jia Zongyang
Qi Guangpu
 Canada (CAN)
Marion Thénault
Miha Fontaine
Lewis Irving

Statistics[edit]

Athlete medal leaders[edit]

Long-haired blond woman with blue eyes, smiling straight at the camera; she wears a light blue hooded jacket. Blurred in the background, there is green vegetation.
Norway's Kari Traa is the most successful Olympic moguls skier, with three medals in the women's moguls event: one gold (2002), one silver (2006), and one bronze (1998).
A man skis down a snow-covered slope with his arms in the air and fists closed. He is wearing black equipment with a blue-and-white vest bearing the Olympic rings and the number ten; a black helmet, black-and-white gloves, protective glasses, and red boots attached to black skis.
After a bronze medal in 2002 and a fourth place in 2006, Belarusian skier Aleksei Grishin secured the gold medal in the men's aerials event at the 2010 Games.

Athletes who won at least two medals are listed below.[12]

Athlete Nation Event Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
David Wise  United States (USA) Men's halfpipe 2014–2022 2 1 0 3
Eileen Gu  China (CHN) Women's big air
Women's slopestyle
Women's halfpipe
2022 2 1 0 3
Alexandre Bilodeau  Canada (CAN) Men's moguls 2006–2014 2 0 0 2
Xu Mengtao  China (CHN) Women's aerials
Mixed team aerials
2010–2022 1 2 0 3
Kari Traa  Norway (NOR) Women's moguls 1998–2006 1 1 1 3
Mathilde Gremaud  Switzerland (SUI) Women's big air
Women's slopestyle
2018–2022 1 1 1 3
Mikaël Kingsbury  Canada (CAN) Men's moguls 2014–2018 1 2 0 3
Jia Zongyang  China (CHN) Men's aerials
Mixed team aerials
2010–2022 0 2 1 3
Qi Guangpu  China (CHN) Men's aerials
Mixed team aerials
2010–2022 1 1 0 2
Justine Dufour-Lapointe  Canada (CAN) Women's moguls 2014–2018 1 1 0 2
Kelsey Serwa  Canada (CAN) Women's ski cross 2010–2018 1 1 0 2
Dale Begg-Smith  Australia (AUS) Men's moguls 2006–2014 1 1 0 2
Jennifer Heil  Canada (CAN) Women's moguls 2002–2010 1 1 0 2
Janne Lahtela  Finland (FIN) Men's moguls 1998–2002 1 1 0 2
Hannah Kearney  United States (USA) Women's moguls 2006–2014 1 0 1 2
Lydia Lassila  Australia (AUS) Women's aerials 2002–2014 1 0 1 2
Alisa Camplin  Australia (AUS) Women's aerials 2002–2006 1 0 1 2
Aleksei Grishin  Belarus (BLR) Men's aerials 2002–2010 1 0 1 2
Tae Satoya  Japan (JPN) Women's moguls 1994–2006 1 0 1 2
Edgar Grospiron  France (FRA) Men's moguls 1992–1994 1 0 1 2
Stine Lise Hattestad  Norway (NOR) Women's moguls 1992–1994 1 0 1 2
Li Nina  China (CHN) Women's aerials 2006–2014 0 2 0 2
Marie Martinod  France (FRA) Women's halfpipe 2014–2018 0 2 0 2
Shannon Bahrke  United States (USA) Women's moguls 2002–2010 0 1 1 2
Dmitri Dashinski  Belarus (BLR) Men's aerials 1998–2006 0 1 1 2
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova  Unified Team (EUN)
 Russia (RUS)
Women's moguls 1992–1994 0 1 1 2
Nick Goepper  United States (USA) Men's slopestyle 2014–2018 0 1 1 2

Medals per year[edit]

× NOC did not exist # Number of medals won by the NOC NOC did not win any medals
Nation 1924–88 92 94 98 02 06 10 14 18 22 Total
 Australia (AUS)   1 2 2 2 1 1 9
 Austria (AUT)   1 1
 Belarus (BLR)   × 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 8
 Canada (CAN)   3 2 1 3 9 7 5 30
 China (CHN)   1 2 3 2 3 6 17
 Czech Republic (CZE)   × 1 1
 Estonia (EST)   × 1 1
 Finland (FIN)   2 1 1 4
 France (FRA)   2 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 1 15
 Germany (GER)   1 1
 Great Britain (GBR)   × 1 1
 Japan (JPN)   1 1 1 1 1 5
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)   × 1 1
 New Zealand (NZL)   × × × 1 1 2
 Norway (NOR)   1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 10
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)   × × × × × × × 2 × 2
 ROC   × × × × × × × × 3 3
 Russia (RUS)   × 2 1 1 × × 4
 Sweden (SWE)   1 1 4 6
 Switzerland (SUI)   1 1 1 1 4 5 13
 Ukraine (UKR)   × 1 1 2
 Unified Team (EUN)   1 × × × × × × × × 1
 United States (USA)   2 1 3 3 1 4 7 4 8 33
 Uzbekistan (UZB)   × 1 × × × × × × 1
Total 1924–88 6 12 12 12 12 18 30 30 39

Medal sweep events[edit]

These are events in which athletes from one NOC won all three medals.

Games Event NOC Gold Silver Bronze
2014 Sochi Men's slopestyle  United States (USA) Joss Christensen Gus Kenworthy Nick Goepper
2014 Sochi Men's ski cross  France (FRA) Jean-Frédéric Chapuis Arnaud Bovolenta Jonathan Midol

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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