List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing

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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]

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The medalists of the inaugural women's ski cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics. From left to right: Hedda Berntsen of Norway (silver), Ashleigh McIvor of Canada (gold), and Marion Josserand of France (bronze).
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In 2010, Michael Schmid of Switzerland won the inaugural men's ski cross event with a perfect sheet: first place in every race of the qualifying and elimination rounds.

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

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Janne Lahtela of Finland (pictured) and Dale Begg-Smith of Australia have won two medals each (one gold and one silver) in the men's moguls.
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Alexandre Bilodeau's victory in the 2010 men's moguls event made him the first-ever Canadian to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Canada. In 2014, he became the first Olympic champion in moguls who defended his title.

Moguls

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Canada 4 3 0 7
2  Australia 2 2 0 4
3  Finland 1 2 1 4
4  United States 1 1 3 5
5  France 1 1 2 4
6  Sweden 1 0 0 1
7  Russia 0 1 1 2
8  Japan 0 0 3 3
Total 8 nations 10 10 10 30
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Dual moguls

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Canada 1 0 0 1
2  Japan 0 1 0 1
3  Australia 0 0 1 1
Total 3 nations 1 1 1 3
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Aerials

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China3137
2  Belarus 2 1 2 5
3 United States123
4 Ukraine112
5 Czechoslovakia
 Switzerland
11
8 Australia
 France
11
9 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Russia
 ROC
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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Norway2002
2 United States0202
3 Sweden0011
3 Austria0011
Total4 nations2226
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Halfpipe

Ski cross

Slopestyle

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 2 4 1 7
2  Norway 2 0 0 2
3  Canada 0 0 1 1
 New Zealand 0 0 1 1
 Sweden 0 0 1 1
Total 5 nations 4 4 4 12
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Women

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Canadian skier Jennifer Heil won the women's Olympic moguls event in 2006, and achieved a silver medal in 2010.
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Evelyne Leu of Switzerland, gold medalist in the women's aerials event at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Eileen Gu, representing China, became the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a Winter Olympics in 2022. She then repeated that feat in 2026.

Moguls

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 3 4 2 9
2  Canada 2 3 0 5
3  Norway 2 1 2 5
4  France 1 0 2 3
5  Japan 1 0 1 2
6  Australia 1 0 0 1
7  Germany 0 1 0 1
 Unified Team 0 1 0 1
9  Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1
 ROC 0 0 1 1
 Russia 0 0 1 1
Total 11 nations 10 10 10 30
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Dual moguls

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Australia 1 0 0 1
2  United States 0 1 1 2
Total 2 nations 1 1 1 3
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Aerials

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Belarus213
2 Australia224
3 China1528
4 Switzerland112
5 United States
 Uzbekistan
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7 Canada112
8 Norway11
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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China1102
2 Canada1001
3 France0101
4 Switzerland0011
 Italy0011
Total5 nations2226
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Ski cross

Slopestyle

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Switzerland 3 1 0 4
2  Canada 1 0 2 3
3  China 0 2 0 2
4  United States 0 1 0 1
5  Estonia 0 0 1 1
 Great Britain 0 0 1 1
Total 6 nations 4 4 4 12
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Athlete medal leaders

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Norway's Kari Traa is the most successful Olympic moguls skier, with three medals in the women's moguls event: one gold (2002), one silver (2006), and one bronze (1998).
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After a bronze medal in 2002 and a fourth place in 2006, Belarusian skier Aleksei Grishin secured the gold medal in the men's aerials event at the 2010 Games.

Athletes who won at least two medals are listed below.[12]

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Medals per year

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Nation 1924–88 92 94 98 02 06 10 14 18 22 26 Total
 Australia  122211 413
 Austria  1 12
 Belarus  ×1111211 ×8
 Canada  3213975 535
 China  123236 926
 Czech Republic  ×1 1
 Estonia  ×1 12
 Finland  211 4
 France  211111521 116
 Germany  1 12
 Great Britain  ×1 12
 Italy   3 3
 Japan  11111 27
 Kazakhstan  ×1 1
 New Zealand  ×××11 13
 Norway  12111211 212
 Olympic Athletes from Russia  ×××××××2× ×2
 ROC (ROC)  ××××××××3 ×3
 Russia  ×211×× ×4
 Sweden  114 17
 Switzerland  111145 518
 Ukraine  ×11 2
 Unified Team  1×××××××× ×1
 United States  213314748 841
 Uzbekistan  ×1×××× ×× ×1
Total 1924–88 6 12 12 12 12 18 30 30 40 45
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Medal sweep events

These are events in which athletes from one NOC won all three medals.

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