List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics
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).
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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

Moguls • Aerials • Big air • Ski cross • Halfpipe • Slopestyle

Women

Moguls • Aerials • Big air • Ski cross • Halfpipe • Slopestyle

Mixed

Aerials team

Statistics

Athlete medal leaders • Medals per year • Medal sweep events

See also        References        External links

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  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2010.
  4. ^ "Freestyle Skiing Equipment and History". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
  5. ^ a b c "Freestyle Skiing History". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  6. ^ "Ski-cross gets approval for 2010". BBC Sport. November 28, 2008. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
  7. ^ "Camplin's aerials win gives Australia another gold". CNNSI.com. CNN. Associated Press. February 18, 2002. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  8. ^ Mick, Hayley (February 14, 2010). "Bilodeau wins Canada's first gold on home soil". CTVOlympics.ca. CTV. Archived from the original on March 9, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  9. ^ Macur, Juliet (February 12, 2006). "Olympics: Tears and laughter as Canadian favorite takes the honors in moguls". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on February 24, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  10. ^ "Kraushaar wins Luge by a silver". The Washington Post. Associated Press. February 12, 1998.
  11. ^ "Hoefflin wins ski slopestyle ahead of teenage YOG star". International Olympic Committee. 5 February 2019. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2019.