Kelly Clark is an American snowboarder who won halfpipe gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Clark was born in Newport,Rhode Island. She started snowboarding when she was 7 years old,began competing in 1999,and became a member of the US Snowboard team in 2000. On January 25,2019,at the Winter X Games in Aspen,she announced her retirement from the sport.
Hannah Teter is an American snowboarder. She is an Olympic champion,having won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino,Italy and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. She has also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler,British Columbia,and has a total of six World Cup victories in her career. In January 2010,Teter was named to the US Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She won the silver medal in women's halfpipe at the Vancouver Games. Teter came in fourth at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Dominique Maltais is a Canadian snowboarder,specialising in snowboard cross. She is a two-time Olympic medallist,winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Torino Games and a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Games. She also competed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics,where she failed to reach the final. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships,she won a bronze medal in 2011 and a silver medal in 2013. She is the 2012 Winter X Games champion,and has won the Crystal Globe as the overall FIS World Cup champion in snowboard cross five times,in 2006,2011,2012,2013 and 2014.
Maëlle Danica Ricker is a Canadian retired snowboarder,who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver,to become the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics. She is also the 2013 World Champion and two-time Winter X Games Champion.
Kristin Størmer Steira is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. She competed from 2002 to 2015,and won six individual World Cup victories and five individual medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and Winter Olympic Games. She also won four gold medals with the Norway relay team. In Norwegian media,Steira was dubbed "the eternal fourth" due to her many finishes in fourth place.
Natalya Konstantinovna Matveyeva is a Russian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2004. Matveyeva skis for Dynamo Moscow. She has a total of four victories since 2004,including three in the 2006–2007 season. All four of her victories have been in the sprint events.
Yevgeniya Anatolyevna Shapovalova is a Russian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2006.
The snowboarding competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Cypress Mountain. The events were held between the 15 and 27 February 2010.
Guo Xinxin is a Chinese aerial skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics. She competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics as well and won the bronze medal in the aerials event.
Xu Mengtao is an Olympic Champion Chinese aerial skier. She has 27 World Cup victories and an Olympic Gold. She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31. She was one of Team China's flag bearers,at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.
Sun Zhifeng is a snowboarder who competes in Half-pipe. She has two World Cup victories and competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Sun competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in women's Half-pipe.
Isabel Clark Ribeiro is a snowboarder from Brazil. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics,2010 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics in snowboard cross.
Pierre Vaultier is a French two-time Olympic Gold Champion,and one-time World Gold Champion snowboarder,specializing in snowboard cross.
Cai Xuetong is a Chinese snowboarder.
Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating,combining spins,jumps,and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980s and then an official FIS and Olympic discipline until the year 2000. Ski ballet became known as Acroski in the 1990s in an effort to legitimize its place among the competitive ski community,especially to the FIS. It is no longer a part of competitive freestyle skiing.
Chloe Kim is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics,she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.
The women's halfpipe competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February (qualification) and 10 February (final),at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. Chloe Kim of the United States won the event,defending her 2018 title. Queralt Castellet of Spain won the silver medal and Sena Tomita of Japan the bronze,the first Olympic medals for both of them.
Su Yiming is a Chinese snowboarder,an Olympic champion and former child actor. By winning the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air event at Steamboat Ski Resort on 4 December 2021,he became the first Chinese snowboarder to take a World Cup podium position.
Pia Zerkhold is an Austrian snowboarder. She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics,in Women's Snowboard Cross,and Mixed team snowboard cross.
Li Yunfeng is a Chinese skiing coach,politician,and former professional athlete of Korean ethnicity. Following an injury sustained during an accident in 2010,he retired from competitive alpine skiing and halfpipe snowboarding. He was a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress,held in 2023.
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