Mac Bohonnon

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Mac Bohonnon Freestyle skiing
Mac Bohonnon 2014 Winter Olympics.jpg
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 27th March 1995 (age 25)
place of birth New Haven (Connecticut)
Weight 173 kg
job 61
Career
discipline Aerials
status active
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 20, 2012
 World Cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 2014/15 )
 Aerials World Cup 1. (2014/15)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 3 4th 2
last change: February 6, 2018

Mac Bohonnon (born March 27, 1995 in New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American freestyle skier . He starts in the aerials discipline (jumping).

Career

From 2009 to 2013, Bohonnon mainly participated in the Nor-Am Cup. He won three races and took third place in the Aerials discipline in the 2011/12 season. In the World Cup he made his debut in Lake Placid in January 2012 and achieved 19th place. Two years later he achieved his first World Cup podium finish in Val St. Come with second place. In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he finished fifth. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, he finished third in Beijing . In the further course of the season he won his first World Cup victories in Lake Placid and Moscow . In Deer Valley and Minsk he came in second place and finished the season in second place in the overall World Cup and first place in the Aerials World Cup. At the 2015 Freestyle Skiing World Championships on Kreischberg , he came in 14th.

In the 2015/16 season, Bohonnon was one of the top ten in six World Cup competitions. He won in Moscow in February 2016 and reached tenth place in the Aerials World Cup at the end of the season. In the following season he finished 13th in the overall World Cup and second in the Aerials World Cup. He came third in Pyeongchang and second in Lake Placid. At the season highlight of the 2017 Freestyle Skiing World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , he was tenth.

Bohonnon has taken part in 29 World Cup races so far and has placed in the top ten 15 times (as of the end of the 2016/17 season). In 2015 he became the American champion in the aerials discipline.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials
space Points space Points
2011/12 190. 2 36. 24
2012/13 152. 6th 26th 42
2013/14 46. 23 14th 114
2014/15 2. 70 1. 491
2015/16 44. 25.83 10. 155
2016/17 10. 46.86 2. 328
2017/18 11. 138

World Cup victories

Bohonnon has achieved 9 podiums in the World Cup so far, including 3 wins:

No. date place country
1. January 30, 2015 Lake Placid United States
2. February 21, 2015 Moscow Russia
3. February 13, 2016 Moscow Russia

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2011/12 season: 3rd place in the aerials discipline
  • 8 podium places, including 3 wins

Junior World Championships

  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2012: 5th Aerials
  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2013: 7th Aerials

More Achievements

  • American Aerials Champion 2015

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