Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2009

Freestyle Skiing World Championships
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Aerials	Ryan St. Onge	Cheng Shuang
Moguls	Patrick Deneen	Jennifer Heil
Dual moguls	Alexandre Bilodeau	Jennifer Heil
halfpipe	Kévin Rolland	Rosalind Groenewoud
Ski cross	Andreas Matt	Kelsey Serwa
Competitions
Venues	Inawashiro ( Fukushima )
Individual competitions	10
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The 13th FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held from 2 to 8 March 2009 in Japan Inawashiro instead.

Medals were awarded in five disciplines, including the second time in the halfpipe and the third time in ski cross . Competitions in aerials (jumping) and on the moguls (moguls) have been held since the first freestyle skiing world championships and thus for the thirteenth time .

Award

The award took place on June 3, 2004 at the 44th FIS Congress, which took place in the Hotel Intercont in Miami .

Men

Ski cross

50 ski crossers took part in the competition. 32 of them qualified for the direct comparisons. In the eighth, quarter and semi-finals, the two best of the four starters reached the final medal battle.

space	country	athlete
1	Austria	Andreas Matt
2	Austria	Thomas Zangerl
3	Canada	Davey Barr
4th	Canada	Christopher Del Bosco
5	United States	Casey Puckett
6th	France	Olivier Fabre
7th	Austria	Patrick Koller
8th	Austria	Markus Wittner

Date: March 2, 2009

Andreas Steffen (13.)

Michael Schmid (15.)

Armin Niederer (19.)

Beni Hofer (20th)

Simon Stickl (26.)

Aerials

32 starters took part in the Aerials, of which 12 made it to the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Ryan St. Onge
2	Canada	Steve Omischl
3	Canada	Warren Shouldice
4th	Switzerland	Renato Ulrich
5	Ukraine	Oleksandr Abramenko
6th	Belarus	Anton Kuschnir
7th	United States	Dylan Ferguson
8th	United States	Jeret Peterson
9	China	Wu Chao
10	Canada	Kyle Nissen

Qualification: March 3, 2009

Final: March 4, 2009

Andreas Isoz (12.)

Thomas Lambert (23rd)

Christopher Lambert (31st)

halfpipe

27 freestyle skis started in the halfpipe qualification. 12 of them made it to the finals.

space	country	athlete
1	France	Kévin Rolland
2	Canada	Justin Dorey
3	France	Xavier Bertoni
4th	United States	David Wise
5	United States	Taylor Seaton
	Canada	Michael Riddle
7th	Finland	Antti-Jussi Kemppainen
8th	New Zealand	Josiah Wells
9	United States	Walter Wood
10	France	Loïc Collomb-Patton

Date: March 5, 2009

Nils Lauper (20th)

David Ortlieb (21.)

Reto Comincioli (22.)

Marc Christen (25.)

Moguls

46 participants started the competition, 16 of whom reached the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Patrick Deneen
2	Finland	Tapio Luusua
3	Canada	Vincent Marquis
4th	Japan	Nobuyuki Nishi
5	Canada	Maxim Gingras
6th	United States	Sho Kashima
7th	Japan	Yugo Tsukita
8th	Canada	Alexandre Bilodeau
9	Finland	Arttu Kiramo
10	Russia	Ruslan Sharifullin

Date: March 7, 2009

no starters from DA-CH-L

Dual moguls

42 participants took part in the dual moguls. The best 16 qualified for the round of 16. In the following rounds, the runners with lower marks were eliminated, until four made it to the final.

space	country	athlete
1	Canada	Alexandre Bilodeau
2	Japan	Nobuyuki Nishi
3	Finland	Tapio Luusua
4th	Canada	Vincent Marquis
5	United States	Patrick Deneen
6th	Sweden	Jesper Björnlund
7th	Japan	Yugo Tsukita
8th	Sweden	Per Spett

Date: March 8, 2009

no starters from DA-CH-L

Women

Ski cross

16 of the 29 starters reached the quarter-finals. The two best of the four groups of four made it to the semi-finals. The losers there ran in the small final for places 5 to 8. The semi-final bettors competed for the medals.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Canada	Ashleigh McIvor
2	Austria	Karin Huttary
3	France	Méryll Boulangeat
4th	Slovenia	Saša Farič
5	Canada	Kelsey Serwa
6th	Switzerland	Émilie Serain
7th	France	Ophélie David
8th	Sweden	Magdalena Iljans

Date: March 2, 2009

Sanna Lüdi (9.)

Heidi Zacher (16.)

Katrin Ofner (17.)

Katharina Gutensohn (21.)

Alexandra Grauvogl (22.)

Aerials

24 athletes competed in the women's aerials, 12 of which made it to the final.

space	country	sportswoman
1	China	Li Nina
2	China	Xu Mengtao
3	Australia	Jacqui Cooper
4th	United States	Emily Cook
5	United States	Jana Lindsey
6th	China	Cheng Shuang
6th	United States	Lacy Schnoor
8th	Russia	Olga Volkova
9	Australia	Bree Munro
10	China	Guo Xinxin

Qualification: March 3, 2009

Final: March 4, 2009

Evelyne Leu (15th)

Nadja Leuenberger (23rd)

halfpipe

Of the 17 starters at the Moguls, 11 reached the final. For various reasons, however, not all qualifiers were able to compete there.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Switzerland	Virginie Faivre
2	Canada	Megan Gunning
3	United States	Jennifer Hudak
4th	United States	Jessica Cumming
5	France	Anaïs Caradeux
6th	United States	Siena Palmacci
7th	Japan	Emi Matsuura
8th	Norway	Mille Berentsen Windfeldt
9	Australia	Stephanie Sirianni
10	Japan	Miyuki Hatanaka

Date: March 5, 2009

Mirjam Jäger (11.)

Moguls

16 of the 29 starters reached the final round.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Japan	Aiko Uemura
2	Canada	Jennifer Heil
3	Czech Republic	Nikola Sudová
4th	Japan	Miki Ito
5	Canada	Kristi Richards
6th	United States	Shannon Bahrke
7th	Austria	Margarita Marbler
8th	Russia	Ekaterina Stolyarova
9	Japan	Tae Satoya
10	Russia	Regina Rakhimova

Date: March 7, 2009

Marina Kaffka (18th)

Dual moguls

Of the 29 starters, 16 made it to the round of 16 and eight made it to the semi-finals. In the final run 4 skiers competed against each other.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Japan	Aiko Uemura
2	Japan	Miki Ito
3	United States	Hannah Kearney
4th	Japan	Tae Satoya
5	Czech Republic	Nikola Sudová
6th	United States	Eliza Outtrim
7th	South Korea	Seo Jung-Hwa
8th	Kazakhstan	Yulia Rodionova

Date: March 8, 2009

Margarita Marbler (9th)

Marina Kaffka (24.)

Medal table

space	country
1	Canada	2	4th	3	9
2	Japan	2	2	-	4th
3	United States	2	-	2	4th
4th	Austria	1	2	-	3
5	China	1	1	-	2
6th	France	1	-	2	3
7th	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
8th	Finland	-	1	1	2
9	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1
	Australia	-	-	1	1
total		10	10	10	30th

Web links

• Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2009 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)