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).
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Men | Moguls • Aerials • Big air • Ski cross • Halfpipe • Slopestyle |
Women | Moguls • Aerials • Big air • Ski cross • Halfpipe • Slopestyle |
Mixed | |
Statistics | Athlete medal leaders • Medals per year • Medal sweep events |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() ![]() | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
5 | ![]() ![]() | 1 | 1 | ||
8 | ![]() ![]() | 1 | 1 | ||
9 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | 1 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2022 Beijing | Birk Ruud ![]() | Colby Stevenson ![]() | Henrik Harlaut ![]() |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 3 nations | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
5 | ![]() ![]() | 1 | 1 | ||
7 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 1 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2022 Beijing | Eileen Gu ![]() | Tess Ledeux ![]() | Mathilde Gremaud ![]() |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 3 nations | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 6 nations | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2022 Beijing | ![]() Ashley Caldwell Christopher Lillis Justin Schoenefeld | ![]() Xu Mengtao Jia Zongyang Qi Guangpu | ![]() Marion Thénault Miha Fontaine Lewis Irving |
Athletes who won at least two medals are listed below. [12]
Athlete | Nation | Event | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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David Wise | ![]() | Men's halfpipe | 2014–2022 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Eileen Gu | ![]() | Women's big air Women's slopestyle Women's halfpipe | 2022 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Alexandre Bilodeau | ![]() | Men's moguls | 2006–2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Xu Mengtao | ![]() | Women's aerials Mixed team aerials | 2010–2022 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Kari Traa | ![]() | Women's moguls | 1998–2006 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Mathilde Gremaud | ![]() | Women's big air Women's slopestyle | 2018–2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Mikaël Kingsbury | ![]() | Men's moguls | 2014–2018 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Jia Zongyang | ![]() | Men's aerials Mixed team aerials | 2010–2022 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Qi Guangpu | ![]() | Men's aerials Mixed team aerials | 2010–2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Justine Dufour-Lapointe | ![]() | Women's moguls | 2014–2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Kelsey Serwa | ![]() | Women's ski cross | 2010–2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Dale Begg-Smith | ![]() | Men's moguls | 2006–2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Jennifer Heil | ![]() | Women's moguls | 2002–2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Janne Lahtela | ![]() | Men's moguls | 1998–2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Hannah Kearney | ![]() | Women's moguls | 2006–2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Lydia Lassila | ![]() | Women's aerials | 2002–2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Alisa Camplin | ![]() | Women's aerials | 2002–2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Aleksei Grishin | ![]() | Men's aerials | 2002–2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Tae Satoya | ![]() | Women's moguls | 1994–2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Edgar Grospiron | ![]() | Men's moguls | 1992–1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Stine Lise Hattestad | ![]() | Women's moguls | 1992–1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Li Nina | ![]() | Women's aerials | 2006–2014 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Marie Martinod | ![]() | Women's halfpipe | 2014–2018 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Shannon Bahrke | ![]() | Women's moguls | 2002–2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Dmitri Dashinski | ![]() | Men's aerials | 1998–2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova | ![]() ![]() | Women's moguls | 1992–1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Nick Goepper | ![]() | Men's slopestyle | 2014–2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
× | NOC did not exist | # | Number of medals won by the NOC | – | NOC did not win any medals |
Nation | 1924–88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 22 | Total |
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![]() | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
![]() | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | |
![]() | × | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
![]() | – | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 30 | |
![]() | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 | |
![]() | × | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
![]() | × | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
![]() | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 4 | |
![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | |
![]() | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
![]() | – | – | – | – | × | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
![]() | × | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
![]() | × | × | – | × | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
![]() | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 2 | × | 2 | |
![]() | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 3 | 3 | |
![]() | × | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | × | × | 4 | |
![]() | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | 6 | |
![]() | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | 5 | 13 | |
![]() | × | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
![]() | 1 | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 1 | |
![]() | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 33 | |
![]() | × | 1 | – | × | × | × | × | × | × | 1 | |
Total | 1924–88 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 30 | 30 | 39 |
These are events in which athletes from one NOC won all three medals.
Games | Event | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 Sochi | Men's slopestyle | ![]() | Joss Christensen | Gus Kenworthy | Nick Goepper |
2014 Sochi | Men's ski cross | ![]() | Jean-Frédéric Chapuis | Arnaud Bovolenta | Jonathan Midol |
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