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Nationality | Swiss | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 January 1998 | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Aerials | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Freestyle Company Jumpin | |||||||||||||||||
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Carol Bouvard (born 12 January 1998) is a Swiss freestyle skier. [1]
She participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019, winning the gold medal in the Aerials team competition. [2]
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis. Known as "hot-dogging" in the early 1970s, it is also commonly referred to as freeskiing, jibbing, as well as many other names, around the world.
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Freestyle skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
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The 2022/23 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, organized by the International Ski Federation was the 51st World Cup in freestyle skiing for men and women. The season started on 21 October 2022 in Chur, Switzerland and concluded on 25 March 2023 in Silvaplana, Switzerland. This season included six disciplines: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air.