Kévin Rolland

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Kévin Rolland Freestyle skiing
Kevin Rolland.jpg
nation FranceFrance France
birthday August 10, 1989
place of birth Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Career
discipline halfpipe
society CS La Plagne
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
X-Games 5 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2014 Sochi halfpipe
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold 2009 Inawashiro halfpipe
silver 2011 Park City halfpipe
bronze 2017 Sierra Nevada halfpipe
silver 2019 Park City halfpipe
Winter X Games logo X-Games
gold 2010 Aspen Super pipe
bronze 2010 Aspen Superpipe High Air
gold 2010 Tignes Super pipe
gold 2011 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2011 Tignes Super pipe
bronze 2013 Tignes Super pipe
silver 2014 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2015 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2016 Aspen Super pipe
FIS Freestyle Skiing Junior World Championships
gold 2007 Airolo halfpipe
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 15, 2006
 World Cup victories 6th
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 2015/16 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 1. ( 2008/09 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 6th 4th 5
last change: February 10, 2019

Kévin Rolland (born August 10, 1989 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice ) is a French freestyle skier . He starts in the halfpipe discipline .

Career

Rolland had his World Cup debut in Les Contamines in January 2006 , which he finished in tenth place. He won the gold medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Airolo . In January 2008 he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place in Les Contamines. In the 2008-09 season he won at Park City and La Plagne . In Les Contamines he took third place and finished the season in sixth place in the overall World Cup and first place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the 2009 Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Inawashiro , he became world champion on the halfpipe. In March 2009 he finished second at the Nippon Open in Inawashiro . In January 2010 he won the Winter Dew Tour on Mount Snow . At the Winter X Games 2010 in Aspen , he won gold on the superpipe and bronze in the superpipe high air competition. In March 2010 he also won gold on the superpipe at the Winter X Games Europe in Tignes .

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Rolland won the King of Style in Stockholm . This is followed by third place on the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and first places in Killington and Snowbasin . At the Winter X Games 2011 and the Winter X Games Europe 2011 , he defended his titles from the previous year. In February 2011 he won silver at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Park City . At the end of the season he won his third World Cup in La Plagne . The following season he took second place on the Winter Dew Tour in Snowbasin and first place in Breckenridge . In the 2012/13 season he came third in the World Cup in Park City . In March 2013, he finished seventh at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Oslo . In the same month he won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games Europe 2013 in Tignes . At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he came second in the World Cup in Copper Mountain . This was followed by third place in Breckenridge in January 2014 . In the same month he won the US Grand Prix in Park City and won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2014 . In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he won bronze in the halfpipe competition. In March 2014 he won the SFR Tour in Tignes.

In the 2014/15 season Rolland came third at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and second at the US Grand Prix and FIS World Cup in Park City . As in the previous year, he won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2015 in Aspen . He finished the season in third place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he won his fourth World Cup in Cardrona . At the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen , he won the gold medal on the superpipe . In February 2016 he finished third at the US Grand Prix and World Cup in Park City and sixth at the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo. In the following month he won the SFR Freestyle Tour and World Cup in Tignes and at the end of the season he finished second in the overall World Cup and first in the Halfpipe World Cup. In the 2016/17 season he won the US Grand Prix and World Cup in Copper Mountain and took third place in the World Cup in Tignes. As in the previous year, he won the Halfpipe World Cup and also achieved 11th place in the overall World Cup. He finished eighth at the Winter X Games 2017 . In March 2017, he won the bronze medal at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Sierra Nevada . The following season he finished second at the World Cup in Cardrona and third at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge. The Winter X Games 2018 in Aspen, he finished ninth and at the Winter Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang 11th place.

Rolland won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in Park City .

successes

2006/07 season

  • 1st place Snowboard Junior World Championships in Airolo , halfpipe

2007/08 season

2008/09 season

2009/10 season

2010/11 season

2011/12 season

2012/13 season

2013/14 season

2014/15 season

2015/16 season

  • 1st place New Zealand Winter Games and World Cup in Cardrona , halfpipe
  • 1st place Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen , Superpipe
  • 1st place SFR Tour and World Cup in Tignes , halfpipe
  • 1st place in the Halfpipe World Cup
  • 2nd place overall World Cup
  • 3rd place US Grand Prix and World Cup in Park City , halfpipe

Season 2016/17

Season 2017/18

  • 2nd place Cardrona Games and World Cup in Cardrona , halfpipe
  • 3rd place Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge , halfpipe

Season 2018/19

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personal data
SURNAME Rolland, Kévin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourg-Saint-Maurice