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Freestyle Skiing

Facts

Discipline of	Skiing
Participants	916
NOCs	46
Competitions held	57 (Venues)
Distinct events	29
IF	International Ski & Snowboard Federation, International Ski & Snowboard Federation

Description

Freestyle skiing developed out of ski acrobatics, which started in the 1930s in the United States. It became popular in the 1960s, with the first formal competitions starting at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, in the USA.

Freestyle skiing was first held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. In 1992, moguls was contested as a full-medal sport in Albertville, with aerials and ballet contested as demonstration events. Freestyle has become a very popular spectator sport at the Olympics, and the programme has expanded to now include aerials, moguls, ski cross, halfpipe, and slopestyle events for both men and women. Beijing 2022 brought the first big air events for both men and women, and the first mixed aerials team event. Ballet was never contested as a medal sport at the Olympics, and international competition in that event basically stopped after 2000.

As of 2022, Canada leads the medal table, followed closely by the United States. American David Wise and Canadian Alex Bilodeau lead the gold medal count, both with two gold medals. Wise has a total of three medals at the Olympics, the same number as Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury, Chinese Jia Zongyang and American Nick Goepper.

Eileen Gu, of China, is the only female freestyle skier with two gold medals. Gu has also won three medals in freestyling, the same number as her compatriot Xu Mengtao, Norwegian Kari Traa, and Swiss skier Mathilde Gremaud.

Freestyle is considered a discipline of the sport of skiing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and, as such, is governed internationally by the Fédération internationale de ski (FIS), which was founded on 2 February 1924 during the Chamonix Olympics. The FIS succeeded the Internationale Skikommission (CIS), which had been formed on 18 February 1910 in Christiania (today Oslo). Despite keeping the acronym FIS, on 26 May 2022, at the FIS Congress at Milano, Italy, its name was changed to the International Ski & Snowboard Federation. FIS not only governs freestyle skiing, but also the Olympic disciplines of Alpine skiing, cross country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and snowboarding. As of 2024, the FIS had 138 member associations.

All-time medal table

Olympic Games

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Canada	CAN	12	12	6	30
United States	USA	11	13	9	33
Switzerland	SUI	6	3	4	13
People's Republic of China	CHN	5	8	4	17
Australia	AUS	4	3	2	9
Norway	NOR	4	2	4	10
Belarus	BLR	4	2	2	8
France	FRA	3	6	6	15
Sweden	SWE	2	1	3	6
Finland	FIN	1	2	1	4
Ukraine	UKR	1	1	0	2
Japan	JPN	1	0	4	5
New Zealand	NZL	1	0	1	2
Czechia	CZE	1	0	0	1
Uzbekistan	UZB	1	0	0	1
Russian Federation	RUS	0	1	3	4
Germany	GER	0	1	1	2
Austria	AUT	0	1	0	1
Unified Team	EUN	0	1	0	1
ROC	ROC	0	0	5	5
Estonia	EST	0	0	1	1
Great Britain	GBR	0	0	1	1
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0	0	1	1

Youth Olympic Games

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	USA	5	7	6	18
People's Republic of China	CHN	3	4	0	7
Sweden	SWE	3	1	3	7
Switzerland	SUI	3	0	4	7
Canada	CAN	3	0	1	4
Austria	AUT	2	1	1	4
Italy	ITA	2	0	0	2
New Zealand	NZL	1	2	3	6
Czechia	CZE	1	2	1	4
Germany	GER	1	1	2	4
Russian Federation	RUS	1	1	2	4
Finland	FIN	1	1	1	3
Great Britain	GBR	1	1	1	3
Norway	NOR	1	1	1	3
Republic of Korea	KOR	1	1	0	2
Estonia	EST	1	0	0	1
Australia	AUS	0	3	1	4
Japan	JPN	0	2	1	3
France	FRA	0	1	1	2
Belgium	BEL	0	1	0	1
Ukraine	UKR	0	0	1	1

Most successful competitors

Olympic Games

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
David Wise	USA	2	1	0	3
Eileen Gu	CHN	2	1	0	3
Alex Bilodeau	CAN	2	0	0	2
Xu Mengtao	CHN	1	2	0	3
Mikaël Kingsbury	CAN	1	2	0	3
Kari Traa	NOR	1	1	1	3
Mathilde Gremaud	SUI	1	1	1	3
Janne Lahtela	FIN	1	1	0	2
Jennifer Heil	CAN	1	1	0	2
Dale Begg-Smith	AUS	1	1	0	2
Oleksandr Abramenko	UKR	1	1	0	2
Kelsey Serwa	CAN	1	1	0	2
Qi Guangpu	CHN	1	1	0	2
Hanna Huskova	BLR	1	1	0	2
Justine Dufour-Lapointe	CAN	1	1	0	2
Marielle Thompson	CAN	1	1	0	2
Cassie Sharpe	CAN	1	1	0	2

Youth Olympic Games

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Eileen Gu	CHN	2	1	0	3
Liz Lemley	USA	2	0	0	2
Flora Tabanelli	ITA	2	0	0	2
Kiernan Fagan	USA	1	1	0	2
Porter Huff	USA	1	1	0	2
Lee Yun-Seung	KOR	1	1	0	2
Luke Harrold	NZL	1	0	1	2
Madi Rowlands	GBR	1	0	1	2
Kai Mahler	SUI	1	0	0	1
Lisi Gram	AUT	1	0	0	1
Lana Prusakova	ROC RUS	1	0	0	1
Talina Gantenbein	SUI	1	0	0	1
Marie Krista	SUI	1	0	0	1
Kelly Sildaru	EST	1	0	0	1
Andrew Longino	CAN	1	0	0	1
Matěj Švancer	AUT CZE	1	0	0	1
Erik Wahlberg	SWE	1	0	0	1
Charlie Beatty	CAN	1	0	0	1
Uma Kruse Een	SWE	1	0	0	1
Niklas Höller	GER	1	0	0	1
Liu Yishan	CHN	1	0	0	1
Alexandra Nilsson	SWE	1	0	0	1
Henry Townshend	USA	1	0	0	1
William Young Shing	SWE	1	0	0	1
Michaela Heider	AUT	1	0	0	1
Niki Lehikoinen	FIN	1	0	0	1
Reece Howden	CAN	1	0	0	1
Birk Ruud	NOR	1	0	0	1
Birk Irving	USA	1	0	0	1

Event types

Name	Gender	Still contested?	Times held?
Moguls	Men	10
Aerials	Men	10
Ski Cross	Men	4
Halfpipe	Men	3
Dual Moguls	Men	0
Slopestyle	Men	3
Big Air	Men	1
Moguls	Women	10
Aerials	Women	10
Ski Cross	Women	4
Halfpipe	Women	3
Slopestyle	Women	3
Big Air	Women	1
Dual Moguls	Women	0
Team Aerials	Mixed	1
Ski Cross	Boys	4
Halfpipe	Boys	4
Slopestyle	Boys	3
Big Air	Boys	2
Dual Moguls	Boys	1
Ski Cross	Girls	4
Halfpipe	Girls	4
Slopestyle	Girls	3
Big Air	Girls	2
Dual Moguls	Girls	1
Team Cross	Mixed Youth	1
Dual Moguls, Team	Mixed Youth	1
Ballet	Men	2
Ballet	Women	2