Freestyle skiing at the 2015 Winter Universiade was held at the Visera Slope and the Sulayr Snowpark in Sierra Nevada, Granada, from February 5 to February 13, 2015. [1] [2]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ski halfpipe |  John Leonard | 86.40 |  Kim Kwang-jin | 71.60 |  Pavel Chupa | 70.00 |
| Ski slopestyle |  Fabian Braitsch | 81.83 | Broby Leeds | 78.00 | Cody Potter | 75.33 |
| Moguls |  Pavel Kolmakov | 72.45 | Dmitriy Reiherd | 68.73 | Sergei Shimbuev | 62.11 |
| Ski cross | Bernhard Graf | 47.49 |  Thimothe Henzi | 48.02 | Igor Omelin | 48.04 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ski halfpipe |  Marine Tripier-Mondancin | 77.80 | Elizavetta Chesnokova | 73.60 |  Jule Seifert | 63.20 |
| Ski slopestyle | Brooke Potter | 73.16 |  Zuzana Stromková | 69.83 | Stefanie Mössler | 58.00 |
| Moguls | Yuliya Galysheva | 66.00 | Marika Pertakhiya | 59.90 | Seo Jee-won | 51.86 |
| Ski cross |  Nikol Kučerová | 50.08 | Lidia Pentukhova | 50.73 | Tania Prymak | 50.78 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 |  Kazakhstan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 |  Austria | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 |  Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 |  Russia | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 |  South Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 |  Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 |  Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 | |
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