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. In 2014, 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] The Austrian municipality of Kreischberg was awarded the event in 2010.

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015
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Host cityKreischberg
CountryAustria
Nations40
Events24
OpeningJanuary 15, 2015 (2015-01-15)
ClosingJanuary 25, 2015 (2015-01-25)
Websitekreischberg2015.at

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.

Schedule

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Q Qualification F Final
Event↓/Date → Wed 14 Thu 15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21 Thu 22 Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25
Moguls Q F
Dual Moguls Q F
Aerials Q F
Freestyle halfpipe Q Q F
Freestyle slopestyle Q F
Ski cross Q F
Big air Q F
Snowboard halfpipe Q F
Snowboard slopestyle Q F
Snowboard cross Q F
Parallel giant slalom Q F
Parallel slalom Q F

Medalists

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Freestyle skiing

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Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Snowboarding

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Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Participating countries

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A total of 40 countries entered athletes.[2]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)43411
2  Switzerland (SUI)3047
3  Canada (CAN)2619
4  Austria (AUT)2226
5  Australia (AUS)2114
  China (CHN)2114
7  Italy (ITA)2013
8  France (FRA)1416
9  Russia (RUS)1214
10  Finland (FIN)1203
11  Slovenia (SLO)1124
12  Japan (JPN)1012
13  Czech Republic (CZE)1001
  Germany (GER)1001
15  Great Britain (GBR)0101
  Spain (ESP)0101
17  Slovakia (SVK)0022
18  Belarus (BLR)0011
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
  Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (20 entries)24242472

Broadcasting

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

References

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  1. ^ "One year to go – Kreischberg is ready to host the FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships 2015!" (PDF). kreischberg2015.at/. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Nations in English" (PDF). kreischberg2015.at/. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  3. ^ "2015 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships to be broadcast free-of-charge on YouTube for the first time ever". infrontsports.com/. Infront Sports & Media. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
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