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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
| Born | April 12, 1995 Lowell, United States | |||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Aerials | |||||||||||||
| Club | Loon Mountain Freestyle | |||||||||||||
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Eric Loughran (born April 12, 1995) is an American male freestyle skier. [1] [2] He competed in the men's aerials at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [3] [4] [5] [6] He competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. [7]
David John Morris is an Australian Olympic aerial/freestyle skier who competed in 3 Winter Olympic Games in 2010, 2014 and 2018. He is Australia's most successful male aerial skier, having competed across FIS World Cup, World Championships and Winter Olympic competitions. He is the first Australian male aerial skier to compete at two consecutive Olympic Games, and the first Australian Medalist in the Olympic Men's Aerials.
Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill. Aerialists are scored on their jumps based on air, form and landing with their score multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the jump they performed.
Ashley Caldwell is an American freestyle skier who has competed in aerials since 2008. Caldwell was named to the US team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in January 2010 after competing in the sport for only two seasons. The youngest in the event, she reached the finals of the Aerials. Caldwell won her first World Cup aerials event in the United States in Lake Placid, New York in January 2011, becoming the youngest freestyle female ever to win.
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.
Anna Segal is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.
Jessica Diggins is an American cross-country skier. She and teammate Kikkan Randall won the United States' first-ever cross-country skiing gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the team sprint in 2018. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Diggins won the silver medal in the 30 kilometer freestyle and the bronze medal in the individual sprint, making her the most decorated American cross-country skier of all time. She also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships from 2013 to 2017. In 2021, Diggins clinched the top spot in the women's overall standings for the 2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, becoming the first American to do so.
Noah Hoffman is a retired American Olympic cross-country skier. He competed for the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Jonathon Lillis is an American freestyle skier who competes internationally. He competed for US at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where he won a gold medal in men's aerials. He competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 8th in Aerials.
Nico Porteous is a New Zealand freestyle skier and an Olympic champion. He is New Zealand's youngest Olympic Games medallist, having won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics at the age of 16. He became New Zealand's second Winter Olympic gold medallist, and first male, with his win in men's halfpipe at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Jilly Wallace is a British former freestyle skier, who won 29 FIS World Cup medals, which was the most for any British skier or snowboarder until 2020. She competed at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. She was World Champion in Laser-Run in 2019 and 2022 at the UIPM World Championships.
Lloyd Wallace is a British freestyle skier who competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Finn Bilous is a New Zealand freestyle skier who competes internationally. He represented New Zealand in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. He finished 13th, just one spot short of making the finals. He participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2018, winning a medal at the Big Air competition.
Germany competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Jim Moran is an American freestyle skier. He competed in the men's moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics. In 1999, he crashed while competing in a race, which lead to the end of his career.
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.
Australia competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Bosnia and Herzegovina competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Ireland competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Slovakia competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Cole McDonald is an American freestyle skier. He joined the US Ski & Snowboard's U.S. Freestyle Ski Team in July 2021. In the same season as his first World Cup, he earned a spot on the U.S. Men's Moguls Team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the youngest American male mogul skier to participate in the Olympics at 18 years of age. McDonald was named World Cup Rookie of the Year in 2022.
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