FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup

FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
Genrefreestyle skiing
- moguls, aerials, ski cross
- halfpipe, slopestyle, big air
Location(s)Europe, Japan, Canada,
United States, Australia,
Belarus, New Zealand,
South Korea, China,
Russia
Inaugurated5 January 1980 (5 January 1980)
Organised byInternational Ski Federation
PeopleJoe Fitzgerald (coordinator)
Kathrin Hostettler (assistant)
JP Baralo (SX and SBX race director)
2022–23 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup

The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980.[1][2] Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. In the 1980s and 1990s there were also ski ballet and combined, which no longer exist.

Races are hosted primarily at ski resorts in North America, the Alps in Europe, with regular stops in Scandinavia, east Asia, but a few races have also been held in the Southern Hemisphere. World Cup competitions have been hosted in 22 countries around the world: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.[3] (note that all world cup races hosted at ski resort in Ukraine was still part of Soviet Union respectively.)

  1. ^ "FIS-Ski - Freestyle World Cup". fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Freestyle Skiing History". CBC Sports. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  3. ^ "FIS: Complete Calendar of Freestyle Ski World Cup Races". Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.