Billy Morgan (snowboarder)

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Billy Morgan Snowboard
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday April 2, 1989
place of birth Southampton
Career
discipline Slopestyle, big air
status active
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Winter X Games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Big Air
Winter X Games logo X-Games
bronze 2016 Oslo Big Air
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 10, 2012
 Freestyle World Cup 10. ( 2012/13 )
 Big Air World Cup 7. ( 2012/13 , 2016/17 )
 Slopestyle World Cup 6. ( 2012/13 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Big Air 0 0 1
 Slopestyle 0 0 2
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 Overall rating 100th (2011/12)
 Slopestyle rating 53rd (2013/14)
last change: June 18, 2017

Billy Morgan (born April 2, 1989 in Southampton ) is a British snowboarder . He starts in the freestyle disciplines.

Career

Morgan has been participating in the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour competitions since 2009 . He won his first victory in slopestyle at the Burton AM Tour in Avoriaz in March 2009 . In October 2012 he won the Big Air event Freeze in London . He drove his first FIS World Cup race in November 2012 in Antwerp , which he finished in seventh place in Big Air. At the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham , he finished fourth in slopestyle. At the last FIS World Cup race of the 2012/13 season, he came third in the Slopestyle in Sierra Nevada and thus reached tenth place in the FIS Freestyle World Cup. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he took second place in the slopestyle at The Mile High in Perisher Blue . In January 2014 he finished ninth in slopestyle in his first appearance at the Winter X Games . The following month, he reached tenth place in slopestyle at his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 . At the Spring Battle 2014 in Flachauwinkl , he won the Big Air competition. In January 2015, he took 38th place in Slopestyle and seventh place in Big Air at the 2015 Snowboard World Championships at Kreischberg, and came ninth at Air & Style in Innsbruck . At the Spring Battle 2015 in Flachauwinkl, he came second in the slopestyle. In February 2016 he won the Air & Style in Innsbruck fifth place and took in the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo the bronze medal in Big Air. The following month he won the Spring Battle in Flachauwinkl and finished the World Cup in Spindleruv Mlyn third Place in slopestyle. In the 2016/17 season he finished in the top ten four times in the World Cup, including third place in the Big Air in Mönchengladbach and thus reached seventh place in the Big Air World Cup. At the Snowboard World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada he came 13th in slopestyle. The following year he won 22nd place in slopestyle at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the Big Air competition he won the bronze medal there.

In 2010 Morgan was British Big Air Champion. The following year he defended the championship and was also British Champion in Slopestyle. In April 2015 he was the first snowboarder to jump in Livigno with a four-fold somersault with five-fold twist, a so-called Quad Cork 1800.

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Individual evidence

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