Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2008/09

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Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2008/09

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Men's Ladies
winner
Overall World Cup CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau FranceFrance Ophélie David
Aerials CanadaCanada Steve Omischl AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila
Moguls CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney
Ski cross Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus FranceFrance Ophélie David
halfpipe FranceFrance Kévin Rolland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Virginie Faivre

The 2008/09 season of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup organized by the FIS began on December 18, 2008 in Méribel ( France ) and ended on March 20, 2009 in La Plagne (France). Competitions were held in the disciplines aerials (jumping), moguls (moguls), dual moguls (parallel moguls), ski cross and halfpipe. The highlight of the season was the 2009 Freestyle Skiing World Championships , which took place from March 1 to 8, 2009 in Inawashiro ( Japan ).

Abbreviations

  • AE = aerials
  • MO = moguls
  • DM = Dual Moguls
  • SX = ski cross
  • HP = half pipe

Men

World Cup ratings

Overall rating

rank Surname Points
1 CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau 88
2 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus 64
3 CanadaCanada Steve Omischl 64
4th FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas 63
5 United StatesUnited States Ryan St. Onge 52
6th FranceFrance Kévin Rolland 52
7th CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco 51
8th SwedenSweden Lars Lewén 47
9 FranceFrance Xavier Bertoni 44
10 United StatesUnited States Jeret Peterson 41

Aerials

rank Surname Points
1 CanadaCanada Steve Omischl 382
2 United StatesUnited States Ryan St. Onge 313
3 United StatesUnited States Jeret Peterson 248
4th CanadaCanada Kyle Nissen 203
5 Belarus 1995Belarus Alyaksey Hryschyn 184
6th Belarus 1995Belarus Dzmitryi Daschtschynski 175
7th CanadaCanada Ryan Blais 166
8th Belarus 1995Belarus Zimafej Slivets 164
9 UkraineUkraine Oleksandr Abramenko 162
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Thomas Lambert 159

Moguls

rank Surname Points
1 CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau 790
2 FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas 564
3 CanadaCanada Vincent Marquis 362
4th CanadaCanada Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau 313
5 FranceFrance Anthony Benna 288
6th RussiaRussia Alexander Smyslyaev 276
7th United StatesUnited States Michael Morse 272
8th United StatesUnited States Sho Kashima 235
9 FinlandFinland Tapio Luusua 216
10 JapanJapan Yugo Tsukita 189

Ski cross

rank Surname Points
1 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus 574
2 CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco 462
3 SwedenSweden Lars Lewén 423
4th United StatesUnited States Casey Puckett 319
5 CanadaCanada Stanley Hayer 300
6th AustriaAustria Andreas Matt 290
7th AustriaAustria Thomas Zangerl 284
8th CanadaCanada Davey Barr 266
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Mike Schmid 252
10 AustriaAustria Patrick Koller 217

halfpipe

rank Surname Points
1 FranceFrance Kévin Rolland 260
2 FranceFrance Xavier Bertoni 220
3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Nils Lauper 140
4th United StatesUnited States David Wise 102
5 FranceFrance Vivien Thiery 97
6th CanadaCanada Mike Riddle 95
7th United StatesUnited States Tyler Peterson 76
8th United StatesUnited States Walter Wood 60
9 FranceFrance Jean Laurent Ratchel 57
10 FinlandFinland Antti-Jussi Kemppainen 52

Podium places

date place Disc. 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
12/13/2008 RussiaRussia Moscow DM Competition canceled.
December 18, 2008 FranceFrance Meribel DM CanadaCanada Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau FranceFrance Anthony Benna
December 19, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Adventure Mountain AE Competition canceled.
December 20, 2008 AE Belarus 1995Belarus Alyaksey Hryschyn China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Like CanadaCanada Warren Shouldice
05/01/2009 AustriaAustria St. Johann in Tirol SX SwitzerlandSwitzerland Mike Schmid AustriaAustria Andreas Matt SwedenSweden Tommy Eliasson
01/10/2009 FranceFrance Les Contamines SX AustriaAustria Andreas Matt CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco AustriaAustria Markus Wittner
January 11, 2009 HP FranceFrance Xavier Bertoni SwitzerlandSwitzerland Nils Lauper FranceFrance Kévin Rolland
01/14/2009 FranceFrance Flaine SX Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus United StatesUnited States Casey Puckett SwedenSweden Eric Iljans
January 18, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid AE United StatesUnited States Jeret Peterson CanadaCanada Kyle Nissen CanadaCanada Warren Shouldice
01/19/2009 SX SwedenSweden Lars Lewén AustriaAustria Patrick Koller Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus }
01/24/2009 CanadaCanada Mont Gabriel MO CanadaCanada Vincent Marquis CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau CanadaCanada Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau
January 25, 2009 AE CanadaCanada Steve Omischl Belarus 1995Belarus Zimafej Slivets SwitzerlandSwitzerland Thomas Lambert
29/01/2009 United StatesUnited States Deer Valley MO FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau United StatesUnited States Patrick Deneen
01/30/2009 AE United StatesUnited States Ryan St. Onge China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Zhongqing CanadaCanada Steve Omischl
January 31, 2009 DM FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas United StatesUnited States David Babic RussiaRussia Alexander Smyslyaev
January 31, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City HP FranceFrance Kévin Rolland FranceFrance Xavier Bertoni United StatesUnited States Walter Wood
02/06/2009 CanadaCanada Cypress Mountain AE CanadaCanada Steve Omischl Belarus 1995Belarus Anton Kuschnir UkraineUkraine Stanislav Kravchuk
02/06/2009 SX CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco CanadaCanada Stanley Hayer CanadaCanada Davey Barr
02/07/2009 MO CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau JapanJapan Yugo Tsukita FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas
02/13/2009 SwedenSweden Are MO CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau CanadaCanada Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau CanadaCanada Vincent Marquis
02/14/2009 DM CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas CanadaCanada Maxim Gingras
02/14/2009 RussiaRussia Moscow AE United StatesUnited States Ryan St. Onge Belarus 1995Belarus Dzmitryi Daschtschynski UkraineUkraine Stanislav Kravchuk
02/19/2009 NorwayNorway Voss SX Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus AustriaAustria Thomas Zangerl AustriaAustria Andreas Matt
02/20/2009 MO CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau FinlandFinland Tapio Luusua United StatesUnited States Michael Morse
02/21/2009 DM Competition canceled.
02/21/2009 UkraineUkraine Kiev AE Competition canceled.
02/24/2009 SwedenSweden Branäs SX SwedenSweden Lars Lewén CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco SwitzerlandSwitzerland Mike Schmid
1st to 8th March 2009: Freestyle Skiing World Championships in InawashiroJapanJapan 
03/12/2009 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Grindelwald SX Competition canceled. 1
03/14/2009 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hasliberg SX SwitzerlandSwitzerland Andreas Steffen CanadaCanada Christopher Del Bosco FranceFrance Xavier Kuhn
03/18/2009 FranceFrance La Plagne DM CanadaCanada Alexandre Bilodeau FranceFrance Guilbaut Colas FranceFrance Pierre Ochs
03/19/2009 HP FranceFrance Kévin Rolland United StatesUnited States David Wise SwitzerlandSwitzerland Nils Lauper
03/20/2009 SX Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Kraus SwitzerlandSwitzerland Armin Niederer CanadaCanada Stanley Hayer

1 competition canceled due to poor visibility and a broken slope during qualification.

Women

World Cup ratings

Overall rating

rank Surname Points
1 FranceFrance Ophélie David 86
2 United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney 71
3 CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil 64
4th AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler 62
5 AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila 51
6th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová 51
7th JapanJapan Aiko Uemura 49
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Nina 48
9 AustriaAustria Katharina Gutensohn 47
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Virginie Faivre 46

Aerials

rank Surname Points
1 AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila 360
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Nina 336
3 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cheng Shuang 300
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xu Mengtao 282
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Evelyne Leu 244
6th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhao Shanshan 237
7th CanadaCanada Veronika Bauer 237
8th United StatesUnited States Emily Cook 235
9 AustraliaAustralia Jacqui Cooper 208
10 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guo Xinxin 207

Moguls

rank Surname Points
1 United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney 642
2 CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil 574
3 AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler 464
4th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová 456
5 JapanJapan Aiko Uemura 439
6th JapanJapan Miki Ito 311
7th United StatesUnited States Shannon Bahrke 255
8th United StatesUnited States Emiko Torito 250
9 CanadaCanada Chloé Dufour-Lapointe 248
10 United StatesUnited States Shelly Robertson 239

Ski cross

rank Surname Points
1 FranceFrance Ophélie David 860
2 AustriaAustria Katharina Gutensohn 469
3 CanadaCanada Kelsey Serwa 416
4th AustriaAustria Karin Huttary 413
5 CanadaCanada Ashleigh McIvor 364
6th FranceFrance Marion Josserand 316
7th CanadaCanada Aleisha Cline 285
8th NorwayNorway Hedda Berntsen 281
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Émilie Serain 279
10 FranceFrance Méryll Boulangeat 270

halfpipe

rank Surname Points
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Virginie Faivre 230
2 FranceFrance Anaïs Caradeux 205
3 CanadaCanada Megan Gunning 116
4th United StatesUnited States Jessica Cumming 105
5 United StatesUnited States Angeli VanLaanen 100
6th JapanJapan Miyuki Hatanaka 96
7th CanadaCanada Rosalind Groenewoud 78
8th SpainSpain Katia Griffiths 74
9 BelgiumBelgium Katrien Aerts 61
10 CanadaCanada Dania Assaly 60

Podium places

date place Disc. 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
12/13/2008 RussiaRussia Moscow DM Competition canceled.
December 18, 2008 FranceFrance Meribel DM United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová
December 19, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Adventure Mountain AE AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila AustraliaAustralia Jacqui Cooper CanadaCanada Veronika Bauer
December 20, 2008 AE China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhao Shanshan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Nina AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila
05/01/2009 AustriaAustria St. Johann in Tirol SX FranceFrance Marion Josserand AustriaAustria Katharina Gutensohn CanadaCanada Kelsey Serwa
01/10/2009 FranceFrance Les Contamines SX NorwayNorway Hedda Berntsen FranceFrance Ophélie David AustriaAustria Katrin Ofner
January 11, 2009 HP SwitzerlandSwitzerland Virginie Faivre JapanJapan Miyuki Hatanaka United StatesUnited States Jessica Cumming
01/14/2009 FranceFrance Flaine SX FranceFrance Ophélie David CanadaCanada Ashleigh McIvor AustriaAustria Karin Huttary
January 18, 2009 United StatesUnited States Lake Placid AE Belarus 1995Belarus Ala Zuper China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xu Mengtao United StatesUnited States Emily Cook
01/19/2009 SX FranceFrance Ophélie David AustraliaAustralia Jenny Owens FranceFrance Méryll Boulangeat
01/24/2009 CanadaCanada Mont Gabriel MO JapanJapan Aiko Uemura CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney
January 25, 2009 AE AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cheng Shuang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhao Shanshan
29/01/2009 United StatesUnited States Deer Valley MO United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney United StatesUnited States Michelle Roark AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler
01/30/2009 AE China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Nina China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guo Xinxin United StatesUnited States Emily Cook
January 31, 2009 DM CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová
January 31, 2009 United StatesUnited States Park City HP United StatesUnited States Angeli VanLaanen CanadaCanada Megan Gunning FranceFrance Anaïs Caradeux
02/06/2009 CanadaCanada Cypress Mountain AE SwitzerlandSwitzerland Evelyne Leu China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dai Shuangfei China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cheng Shuang
02/06/2009 SX CanadaCanada Aleisha Cline CanadaCanada Ashleigh McIvor AustriaAustria Karin Huttary
02/07/2009 MO CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler
02/13/2009 SwedenSweden Are MO AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler CanadaCanada Jennifer Heil JapanJapan Aiko Uemura
02/14/2009 DM United StatesUnited States Hannah Kearney JapanJapan Aiko Uemura AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler
02/14/2009 RussiaRussia Moscow AE China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xu Mengtao China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cheng Shuang AustraliaAustralia Lydia Lassila
02/19/2009 NorwayNorway Voss SX FranceFrance Ophélie David AustriaAustria Katharina Gutensohn AustriaAustria Karin Huttary
02/20/2009 MO JapanJapan Aiko Uemura Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová JapanJapan Miki Ito
02/21/2009 DM Competition canceled.
02/21/2009 UkraineUkraine Kiev AE Competition canceled.
02/24/2009 SwedenSweden Branäs SX FranceFrance Ophélie David AustriaAustria Karin Huttary CanadaCanada Ashleigh McIvor
1st to 8th March 2009: Freestyle Skiing World Championships in InawashiroJapanJapan 
03/12/2009 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Grindelwald 1 SX FranceFrance Ophélie David FranceFrance Marion Josserand SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sanna Lüdi
03/14/2009 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hasliberg SX AustriaAustria Katharina Gutensohn FranceFrance Ophélie David CanadaCanada Julia Murray
03/18/2009 FranceFrance La Plagne DM AustriaAustria Margarita Marbler Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nikola Sudová CanadaCanada Chloé Dufour-Lapointe
03/19/2009 HP FranceFrance Anaïs Caradeux SwitzerlandSwitzerland Virginie Faivre CanadaCanada Rosalind Groenewoud
03/20/2009 SX FranceFrance Ophélie David CanadaCanada Kelsey Serwa SwitzerlandSwitzerland Émilie Serain

1 scoring after qualification. Final canceled due to poor visibility and a broken slope.

Nations Cup

Overall rating

rank country Points
1 CanadaCanada Canada 5772
2 United StatesUnited States United States 3625
3 FranceFrance France 3419
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2465
5 AustriaAustria Austria 2267
6th JapanJapan Japan 1665
7th SwedenSweden Sweden 1343
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1292
9 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 1249
10 AustraliaAustralia Australia 1080

Men

rank country Points
1 CanadaCanada Canada 3093
2 United StatesUnited States United States 1960
3 FranceFrance France 1804
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1246
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 951
6th AustriaAustria Austria 764
7th RussiaRussia Russia 724
8th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 685
9 JapanJapan Japan 668
10 FinlandFinland Finland 609

Women

rank country Points
1 CanadaCanada Canada 2679
2 United StatesUnited States United States 1665
3 FranceFrance France 1615
4th AustriaAustria Austria 1503
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1219
6th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1017
7th JapanJapan Japan 997
8th AustraliaAustralia Australia 902
9 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 564
10 NorwayNorway Norway 489

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