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
Logo
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
QQualification FFinal
Event↓/Date →Wed 14Thu 15Fri 16Sat 17Sun 18Mon 19Tue 20Wed 21Thu 22Fri 23Sat 24Sun 25
MogulsQF
Dual MogulsQF
AerialsQF
Freestyle halfpipeQQF
Freestyle slopestyleQF
Ski crossQF
Big airQF
Snowboard halfpipeQF
Snowboard slopestyleQF
Snowboard crossQF
Parallel giant slalomQF
Parallel slalomQF

Medalists

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

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
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

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
  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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