FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup

The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980.[1][2] Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. In the 1980s and 1990s there were also ski ballet and combined, which no longer exist.

FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
Genrefreestyle skiing
- moguls, aerials, ski cross
- halfpipe, slopestyle, big air
Location(s)Europe, Japan, Canada,
United States, Australia,
Belarus, New Zealand,
South Korea, China,
Russia
Inaugurated5 January 1980 (5 January 1980)
Previous event2018–19 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
Organised byInternational Ski Federation
PeopleJoe Fitzgerald (coordinator)
Kathrin Hostettler (assistant)
JP Baralo (SX and SBX race director)
2019–20 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup

Races are hosted primarily at ski resorts in North America, the Alps in Europe, with regular stops in Scandinavia, east Asia, but a few races have also been held in the Southern Hemisphere. World Cup competitions have been hosted in 22 different countries around the world: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.[3] (note that all world cup races hosted at ski resort in Ukraine was still part of Soviet Union respectively.)

Number of events

Mixed team events are not included in this list.

Points distribution

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Overall 20161210987.26.45.85.24.84.443.63.232.82.62.42.221.81.61.41.210.80.60.40.2

Overall results

Top 10 podiums

Updated after 2017–18 season.

Most overall World Cup titles

The following skiers have at least 3 overall Freestyle World Cup titles:

Men

9: Mikael Kingsbury

5: Éric Laboureix

Ladies

10: Conny Kissling

4: Hannah Kearney

3: Ophélie David, Jacqui Cooper, Kari Traa

Most discipline World Cup titles

The records for most World Cup titles in each discipline are as follows:

Discipline Men Ladies
Name Titles Name Titles
Moguls Mikael Kingsbury9 Hannah Kearney6
Ski Ballet (Acro) H. Reitberger5 Jan Bucher7
Combined Éric Laboureix
Alain Laroche
4 Conny Kissling9
Ski Cross Tomáš Kraus4 Ophélie David7
Aerials Nicolas Fontaine
Steve Omischl
4 Jacqui Cooper5
Dual moguls Jesper Rönnback
Thony Héméry
Janne Lahtela
2 Candice Gilg
Kari Traa
2
Halfpipe Kalle Leinonen
David Wise
Kevin Rolland
2 Sarah Burke
Virginie Faivre
Ayana Onozuka
2
Slopestyle6 skiers15 skiers1

See also

References

  1. "FIS-Ski - Freestyle World Cup". fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012.
  2. "Freestyle Skiing History". CBC Sports. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  3. "FIS: Complete Calendar of Freestyle Ski World Cup Races". Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  • fis-ski.com FIS Freestyle News, Calendar, Rules and Results
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