Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics

Governing body

Events

8 (men: 4; women: 4)

Games

1924	•	1928	•	1932	•	1936	•	1948	•	1952
1956	•	1960	•	1964	•	1968	•	1972	•	1976
1980	•	1984	•	1988	•	1992	•	1994	•	1998
2002	•	2006	•	2010	•	2014
Note: demonstration sport years indicated in italics

Medalists

Freestyle skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

History

Freestyle skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics, with moguls, aerials, and ballet events. Moguls became an official medal sport at the 1992 games, while aerials and ballet were still demonstration events. At the 1994 games, aerials also became an official medal event and the ski ballet competition was dropped. For the 2010 Winter Olympics, ski cross was added to the program while for the 2014 Winter Olympics half-pipe and slopestyle were added.^[1]

Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medalist, winning the men's moguls at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, having previously won the same event at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.^[2]

Events

• = official event, (d) = demonstration event

Event	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	Years
Men's moguls	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Men's aerials	(d)	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Men's ski cross							•	•	2
Men's ski half-pipe								•	1
Men's ski slopestyle								•	1
Men's ski ballet	(d)	(d)							-
Women's moguls	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Women's aerials	(d)	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Women's ski cross							•	•	2
Women's ski half-pipe								•	1
Women's ski slopestyle								•	1
Women's ski ballet	(d)	(d)							-

Total events	6	6	4	4	4	4	6	10

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	7	6	21
2	Canada (CAN)	8	7	3	18
3	Australia (AUS)	3	2	2	7
4	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	2	6
5	Switzerland (SUI)	3	0	1	4
6	France (FRA)	2	4	6	12
7	Norway (NOR)	2	2	4	8
8	China (CHN)	1	4	3	8
9	Finland (FIN)	1	2	1	4
10	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
11	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
11	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
13	Russia (RUS)	0	1	3	4
14	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
15	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	1	0	1
Total		34	34	34	102

Number of athletes by nation

Nation	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	Years
Argentina (ARG)																1			1	1			3
Armenia (ARM)																		1					1
Australia (AUS)																2	5	5	7	9	11	21	7
Austria (AUT)																	1	2	1	1	9	11	6
Belarus (BLR)																	4	6	5	6	6	6	6
Belgium (BEL)																						1	1
Brazil (BRA)																						1	1
British Virgin Islands (IVB)																						1	1
Canada (CAN)																7	11	12	14	14	18	26	7
Chile (CHI)																						2	1
China (CHN)																	2	5	7	8	8	9	6
Czech Republic (CZE)																		1	2	3	7	6	5
Denmark (DEN)																		1	1		1		3
Finland (FIN)																4	3	4	4	4	4	9	7
France (FRA)																6	8	7	6	5	11	21	7
Germany (GER)																4	5	3		2	5	10	6
Great Britain (GBR)																5	3	3	3		3	6	6
Italy (ITA)																6	6	2	1	6	1	4	7
Jamaica (JAM)																					1		1
Japan (JPN)																1	3	7	8	9	10	10	7
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																	1	2	1	3	5	8	6
Latvia (LAT)																1							1
Netherlands (NED)																	1						1
New Zealand (NZL)																		2			1	8	3
Norway (NOR)																2	4	2	3	2	6	11	7
Paraguay (PAR)																						1	1
Poland (POL)																					1	1	2
Portugal (POR)																		1					1
Puerto Rico (PUR)																2							1
Romania (ROU)																					1		1
Russia (RUS)																	6	9	12	13	12	26	6
Slovakia (SVK)																						2	1
Slovenia (SLO)																2		1	1	2	3	1	6
South Korea (KOR)																				1	1	5	3
Spain (ESP)																2	2			1	1	1	5
Switzerland (SUI)																5	6	4	6	4	14	24	7
Sweden (SWE)																4	8	8	4	4	8	11	7
Ukraine (UKR)																	3	7	3	7	6	7	6
Unified Team (EUN)																8							1
United States (USA)																8	12	14	14	14	18	26	7
Uzbekistan (UZB)																	3	1					2

Nations	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	21	25	21	22	30	35
Athletes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	71	97	110	104	119	172	276
Year	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	7

References

↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=6273652
↑ Will Graves (2014-02-10). "Canada's Alex Bilodeau takes gold in men's moguls, first two-time freestyle Olympic champion". Associated Press (The Republic (Columbus, Indiana)).

External links

Media related to Freestyle skiing at the Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

Ottawa Citizen: "Moguls glossary" - 2010 Winter Games
CanWest News Service: "Ski Cross glossary" - 2010 Winter Games

Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics

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