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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.
Although Clyde Getty qualified for the US team, he opted to join the Argentinian Olympic Ski Team instead, because of his lineage. Getty competed in the Torino Olympics Men's freestyle skiing [3] and was the oldest competitor at the event. In 1989 Getty became a member of the US Freestyle Skiing Team.
At age 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe, and a silver medal in slopestyle, at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She is the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics.
Gota Miura (三浦 豪太, Miura Gōta, born 10 August 1969) is a Japanese freestyle skier.He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics. [1] His father, Yūichirō Miura, attempted to be the first person to ski down Mt. Everest, and three times set the record for thee oldest person to climb the mountain. [1]
Mathilde Gremaud (born 8 February 2000) is an Olympic Swiss freestyle skier and eight time X Games medalist. On February 28, 2023, she became the first freestyle skier to hold both slopestyle World and Olympic Champion titles after winning gold in both events.
Suzanne Stevia Chaffee (born November 29, 1946) is an American former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modeled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s. She was the first woman to serve on the board of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Worthington was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, and began skiing at the age of two. [2] [4] His great-grandfather, Harry, competed in the men's long jump at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. [5] After moving to Winter Park, Colorado, Worthington took part in his first freestyle skiing competition when he was 14 years old. [2]
Lane Spina (born 3 January 1962) [1] is an American freestyle skier who won two medals in demonstration events of the Olympic Games; at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. He also won the Freestyle World Championships in 1991 in Lake Placid, New York.