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| Born | 7 June 1997 Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Half-pipe | |||||||||||||||||||
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Brendan Mackay (born 7 June 1997) is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the half-pipe discipline. [1] [2] He won the gold medal in the event at the 2023 freestyle skiing world championships. [3]
Mackay has been part of the national team since 2015. [1]
During the 2021–22 World Cup Season, Mackay won medals in all three events: bronze in Copper Mountain followed by back-to-back gold medals in Calgary, leading him to finish first in the overall halfpipe standings. [4]
On January 24, 2022, Mackay was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team in the halfpipe event. [5] [6]
In 2023 he won the men's half-pipe gold medal at the freestyle skiing world championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. [3]
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
Justine Dufour-Lapointe is a Canadian freestyle skier. She was the Olympic champion in the moguls event at the 2014 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in moguls at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The gold and silver she and her sister Chloe Dufour-Lapointe won in 2014 was the first time that Canadian sisters stood together on the podium, and the fourth time ever by all nations. In winning the Olympics, she became the youngest freestyle skiing Olympic champion ever at nineteen years of age. Dufour-Lapointe was the FIS World Cup rookie of the year for the 2010–11 season. Dufour-Lapointe was the world champion in moguls at the 2015 World Championships has also won a silver and two other bronze medals in the moguls event at the Freestyle World Ski Championships.
Kevin Rolland is a French freestyle skier. He won the gold medal at the 2009 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in the halfpipe. He lost his title in 2011 to the Canadian Mike Riddle but still finished on the podium at the second place.
Noah Bowman is a Canadian freestyle skier. He won a silver medal in the superpipe at Winter X Games XVI.
Marielle Thompson is a Canadian freestyle skier specializing in ski cross. She is the 2014 Winter Olympic and 2019 World champion in women's ski cross, as well as a three-time FIS World Cup Crystal Globe winner as the top-ranked athlete in that discipline and the 2013 Junior World champion.
Simon d'Artois is a Canadian freestyle skier. Born and raised in Whistler, BC. He is a member of the Canadian National Halfpipe team. d'Artois competed at the Winter X Games XIX, obtaining the first Canadian gold in the Men's SuperPipe. He has also competed at the U.S. Grand Prix, where in 2013 he fell and hit his head and shoulders near the end of his Superpipe jump.
Cassie Sharpe is a Canadian freestyle skier. Sharpe became the Olympic champion in women's halfpipe after winning gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in halfpipe in Kreischberg and won gold and bronze in superpipe at the Winter X Games in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
Rachael Karker is a Canadian freestyle skier.
Canada competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. Canada has competed at all 24 editions of the Winter Olympics.
Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing, is an American and Chinese freestyle skier. She has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since 2019.
The men's halfpipe competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February (qualification) and 19 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. The podium consisted of all the medalists in the same event in 2018, but in a different order. Nico Porteous of New Zealand, the 2018 bronze medalist, won the event, bringing to New Zealand the second ever winter Olympic gold medal. David Wise of the United States, the champion in both previous events, won the silver medal, and Alex Ferreira, also of the United States, the 2018 silver medalist, this time won bronze.
Miha Fontaine is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the aerials discipline. He is the son of former Aerials world champion Nicolas Fontaine.
Olivia Asselin is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the big air and slopestyle disciplines.
Jared Schmidt is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the ski cross discipline.
Courtney Hoffos is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the ski cross discipline.
Reece Howden is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the ski cross discipline.
Amy Fraser is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the half-pipe discipline.
Max Moffatt is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the big air and slopestyle disciplines.
Megan Oldham is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the big air and slopestyle disciplines. Oldham grew up in Parry Sound, Ontario.
Liam Gill is a Canadian snowboarder who competes internationally in the half-pipe discipline.
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