Øystein Bråten

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Øystein Bråten Freestyle skiing
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 21st July 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Geilo , Norway
Career
discipline Slopestyle and Big Air
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
X-Games 2 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2018 Pyeongchang Slopestyle
Winter X Games logo X-Games
bronze 2016 Aspen Slopestyle
gold 2017 Aspen Slopestyle
gold 2017 Hafjell Slopestyle
silver 2018 Aspen Slopestyle
silver 2018 Aspen Big Air
bronze 2018 Fornebu Big Air
FIS Freestyle Skiing Junior World Championships
silver 2012 Valmalenco Slopestyle
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 12, 2013
 World Cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 6. ( 2015/16 )
 Slopestyle World Cup 2. (2015/16)
 Big Air World Cup 3. ( 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Slopestyle 1 1 4th
 Big Air 0 1 1
last change: October 14, 2018

Øystein Bråten (born July 21, 1995 in Geilo ) is a Norwegian freestyle skier . He starts in the slopestyle discipline .

Career

Bråten had his first international success at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Chiesa in Valmalenco . There he won the silver medal. He drove his first World Cup race in January 2013 in Copper Mountain , which he finished in 42nd place. In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he finished tenth. In March 2014 he achieved fourth place in Silvaplana, his best result so far in a World Cup race. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season he won second place at The North Face Freeski Open of New Zealand in Cardrona and at the Dew Tour Mountain Championships in Breckenridge . In the further course of the season he came in third place at the European Freeski Open in Laax and won the Red Bull PlayStreets in Bad Gastein and the Total Fight in Grandvalira . At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place in Cardrona . In January 2016, he finished third in slopestyle at the US Grand Prix and FIS World Cup in Mammoth . In the same month he won the bronze medal in slopestyle at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen . At the X-Games Oslo 2016 he was fifth in Big Air. At the end of the season he took third place in the Slopestyle World Cup in Silvaplana and won the Slopestyle at the SFR Freestyle Tour in La Clusaz . He finished sixth in the overall World Cup and second in the Slopestyle World Cup. After second place in the Slopestyle at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and third place in Big Air at the World Cup in Mönchengladbach , he won the gold medal in Slopestyle at the Winter X Games 2017 in Aspen and the X Games Norway 2017 in Hafjell . He also won the SFR Tour in La Clusaz in slopestyle in February 2017. At the Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada , he finished 50th in slopestyle. He finished the season in ninth place in the overall World Cup and third in the Big Air World Cup. In the 2017/18 season he came third in the World Cup three times and once in Stubai in first place in Slopestyle and thus achieved 18th place in the overall World Cup and third place in the Slopestyle World Cup. At the Winter X Games 2018 in Aspen he won the silver medal in Big Air and Slopestyle and the bronze medal in Big Air at the X Games Norway 2018 in Fornebu . In February 2018 he won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in slopestyle.

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