FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015

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Host city	Kreischberg
Country	Austria
Nations	40
Events	24
Opening	January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15)
Closing	January 25, 2015 (2015-01-25)
Website	kreischberg2015.at
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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.

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

Medalists

Freestyle skiing

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Snowboarding

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Participating countries

A total of 40 countries entered athletes. ^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	3	4	11
2	Switzerland (SUI)	3	0	4	7
3	Canada (CAN)	2	6	1	9
4	Austria (AUT)	2	2	2	6
5	Australia (AUS)	2	1	1	4
	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
7	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
8	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
9	Russia (RUS)	1	2	1	4
10	Finland (FIN)	1	2	0	3
11	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	2	4
12	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
17	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	2	2
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		24	24	24	72

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

External links

• Official website Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine