FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015

The 2015 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Kreischberg, Austria from January 15–25, 2015. Qualification for the women's aerials event began a day before the opening ceremony. Freestyle skiers competed in six disciplines: moguls, dual moguls, ski cross, slopestyle, halfpipe and aerials. Snowboarders competed in six disciplines: halfpipe, slopestyle, parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom, big air and snowboard cross. Kreischberg was awarded the event in 2010. The FIS (International Ski Federation) decided to merge the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships with the FIS Snowboarding World Championships starting with these championships.^[1]

Schedule

Medalists

Freestyle skiing

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Moguls	Anthony Benna  France	86.89	Mikaël Kingsbury  Canada	86.54	Alexandr Smyshlyaev  Russia	85.68
Dual moguls	Mikaël Kingsbury  Canada		Philippe Marquis  Canada		Marc-Antoine Gagnon  Canada
Aerials	Qi Guangpu  China	139.50	Alex Bowen  United States	121.27	Maxim Gustik  Belarus	119.91
Halfpipe	Kyle Smaine  United States	88.00	Joffrey Pollet-Villard  France	86.60	Yannic Lerjen   Switzerland	82.40
Slopestyle	Fabian Bösch   Switzerland	92.60	Russell Henshaw  Australia	91.80	Noah Wallace  United States	82.40
Ski cross	Filip Flisar  Slovenia		Jean-Frédéric Chapuis  France		Victor Öhling Norberg  Sweden

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Moguls	Justine Dufour-Lapointe  Canada	87.25	Hannah Kearney  United States	85.66	Britteny Cox  Australia	81.98
Dual moguls	Hannah Kearney  United States		Justine Dufour-Lapointe  Canada		Yulia Galysheva  Kazakhstan
Aerials	Laura Peel  Australia	88.47	Kiley McKinnon  United States	88.12	Xu Mengtao  China	86.84
Halfpipe	Virginie Faivre   Switzerland	83.80	Cassie Sharpe  Canada	81.00	Mirjam Jäger   Switzerland	79.80
Slopestyle	Lisa Zimmermann  Germany	85.80	Katie Summerhayes  Great Britain	82.80	Zuzana Stromkova  Slovakia	77.60
Ski cross	Andrea Limbacher  Austria		Ophélie David  France		Fanny Smith   Switzerland

Snowboarding

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Big air	Roope Tonteri  Finland	173.75	Darcy Sharpe  Canada	169.50	Kyle Mack  United States	163.50
Halfpipe	Scotty James  Australia	91.50	Yiwei Zhang  China	89.50	Tim-Kevin Ravnjak  Slovenia	89.25
Slopestyle	Ryan Stassel  United States	97.50	Roope Tonteri  Finland	93.75	Kyle Mack  United States	92.75
Snowboard cross	Luca Matteotti  Italy		Kevin Hill  Canada		Nick Baumgartner  United States
Parallel giant slalom	Andrey Sobolev  Russia		Žan Košir  Slovenia		Benjamin Karl  Austria
Parallel slalom	Roland Fischnaller  Italy		Andrey Sobolev  Russia		Rok Marguč  Slovenia

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Big air	Elena Könz   Switzerland	157.75	Merika Enne  Finland	148.75	Sina Candrian   Switzerland	143.25
Halfpipe	Xuetong Cai  China	94.25	Queralt Castellet  Spain	81.25	Clémence Grimal  France	80.25
Slopestyle	Miyabi Onitsuka  Japan	92.50	Anna Gasser  Austria	89.50	Klaudia Medlova  Slovakia	84.25
Snowboard cross	Lindsay Jacobellis  United States		Nelly Moenne Loccoz  France		Michela Moioli  Italy
Parallel giant slalom	Claudia Riegler  Austria		Alena Zavarzina  Russia		Tomoka Takeuchi  Japan
Parallel slalom	Ester Ledecka  Czech Republic		Julia Dujmovits  Austria		Marion Kreiner  Austria

Participating countries

A total of 40 countries entered athletes.^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	3	4	11
2	Switzerland	3	0	4	7
3	Canada	2	6	1	9
4	Austria	2	2	2	6
5	Australia	2	1	1	4
	China	2	1	1	4
7	Italy	2	0	1	3
8	France	1	4	1	6
9	Russia	1	2	1	4
10	Finland	1	2	0	3
11	Slovenia	1	1	2	4
12	Japan	1	0	1	2
13	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
15	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
17	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
18	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Total	24	24	24	72

Broadcasting

For the first time ever the championships were available for live viewing on YouTube for free of charge, in countries where broadcasting agreements were not in place.^[3]

References

External links

• Official Website

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1986 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

FIS Snowboard World Championships 1996 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015