Mikaël Kingsbury
Mikaël Kingsbury 
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| birthday | 24th July 1992 (age 28) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Moguls, dual moguls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mikaël Kingsbury (born July 24, 1992 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts , Québec ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . He's on the moguls specialized disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls. In these disciplines he is the most successful athlete in history. He was able to win both the overall ranking of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and the Mughal discipline ranking eight times in a row between 2012 and 2019. There are also four world championship titles, five further World Cup medals as well as the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the silver medal in 2014 .
biography
Kingsbury grew up in the town of Deux-Montagnes and participated in FIS competitions from March 2005 . From January 2008 he took part in the Nor-Am Cup, the North American continental championship. After he achieved his first podium at the beginning of 2009, he scored five wins in the 2009/10 season. With more than double the number of points of the runner-up, he won the Moguls discipline classification of the Nor-Am Cup.
Kingsbury made his World Cup debut on January 8, 2010 in Calgary , where he finished 54th. He got his first World Cup points on March 12th of the same year with 15th place in Åre . Just one day later, he was able to establish himself as fourth in the middle of the world elite. With second place in Ruka on December 11, 2010 he achieved his first World Cup podium. The first win came nine days later in Beida Lake . At the 2011 World Championships , he won the silver medal in the Dual Moguls and the bronze medal in the Moguls competition. Because of these successes, the FIS named him Rookie of the Year .
In the 2011/12 season , Kingsbury dominated the competition almost at will. He achieved eight World Cup victories, six of them in a row. There were also four second and one third place. Every time he participated, he stood on the podium, which meant that he won the overall World Cup as well as the Moguls discipline. With a total of 13 podium places in one season, he set a new record. Kingsbury was similarly dominant in the 2012/13 season with six World Cup victories. At the 2013 World Championships in Voss , he won the Moguls gold medal, as well as the dual Moguls silver medal. He was also able to win the overall World Cup and Moguls disciplines for the second time.
Kingsbury started the 2013/14 World Cup season with three wins in a row. After that, however, he fell slightly behind Alexandre Bilodeau in the discipline classification . He also had to admit defeat to him at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and won the silver medal. Towards the end of the season he was able to improve again and celebrate two more victories, which is the third time in a row that he won both the Moguls discipline and the overall standings. In the penultimate race of the season, on March 16, 2014 in Ruka , he achieved his 21st World Cup victory at the age of just 21, surpassing the previous Canadian record held by Jean-Luc Brassard .
At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Kingsbury won three World Cup competitions in a row. Before the 2015 World Championships , he was therefore a huge favorite: Somewhat surprisingly, he was beaten by Frenchman Anthony Benna in the Moguls competition in Kreischberg and had to be content with the silver medal. In contrast, he secured the world title in the dual moguls competition. With two more World Cup victories afterwards, he superiorly secured the discipline and the overall ranking. Kingsbury continued its winning streak in the 2015/16 season . His victory in the first Ruka competition on December 12, 2015 was the 29th overall, making him the sole record holder ahead of Edgar Grospiron . With four more victories, he was the winner of the overall and discipline World Cup for the fifth time.
In the 2016/17 season Kingsbury was again almost unbeatable. In nine out of eleven World Cup competitions, he was on top of the podium, making him the overall and discipline World Cup for the sixth time. On the other hand, the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada did not go according to plan: he finished third in the Moguls competition, while he only achieved 13th place in the Dual Moguls competition (by far his worst result of the season). In the winter of 2017/18 Kingsbury was once again superior to the competition. With seven World Cup victories and three second places, he secured both ratings for the seventh time in a row. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he confirmed his role as a favorite and won the gold medal in the Mughal competition.
He won his third and fourth world championship titles, one in each of the two disciplines, at the 2019 World Championships in Park City , making him only the second double freestyle world champion after Trace Worthington in 1995. In the World Cup 2018/19 he was almost unbeatable: With seven more victories he secured for the eighth time in a row overall and discipline standings. The superiority continued in the 2019/20 World Cup with seven wins, which gave him the ninth win in a row in both ratings.
successes
Olympic games
- Sochi 2014 : 2nd Mughal
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 1st Moguls
World championships
- Deer Valley 2011 : 2nd Dual Moguls, 3rd Moguls
- Voss 2013 : 1st moguls, 2nd dual moguls
- Kreischberg 2015 : 1st Dual Moguls, 2nd Moguls
- Sierra Nevada 2017 : 3rd moguls, 13th dual moguls
- Park City 2019 : 1st moguls, 1st dual moguls
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Moguls | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2009/10 | 64. | 12 | 22nd | 116 |
| 2010/11 | 4th | 66 | 3. | 725 |
| 2011/12 | 1. | 91 | 1. | 1180 |
| 2012/13 | 1. | 78 | 1. | 940 |
| 2013/14 | 1. | 81 | 1. | 890 |
| 2014/15 | 1. | 85 | 1. | 761 |
| 2015/16 | 1. | 88.13 | 1. | 705 |
| 2016/17 | 1. | 92.73 | 1. | 1020 |
| 2017/18 | 1. | 94.00 | 1. | 940 |
| 2018/19 | 1. | 91.67 | 1. | 825 |
| 2019/20 | 1. | 94.00 | 1. | 940 |
World Cup victories
Kingsbury has achieved 91 podiums in the World Cup so far, of which 63 wins:
Moguls:
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Dual moguls:
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Nor-Am Cup
- 7 podium places, including 5 wins
- Season 2009/10: 1st Moguls discipline ranking
More Achievements
- 1 win in the European Cup
- 4 Canadian championship titles (Moguls 2015, 2016, 2017; Dual Moguls 2016)
Web links
- Mikaël Kingsbury in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Portrait at Freestyle Ski Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ Callum Ng: Mikael Kingsbury has one thing left to do. CBC Sports , December 8, 2016, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Canada takes four medals at mogul finals. Freestyle Canada, March 18, 2012, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ^ Mikael Kingsbury breaks Canadian record for World Cup wins. CTV , March 16, 2014, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Canada's Mikael Kingsbury takes over top spot in career wins at World Cup moguls. Toronto Star , December 12, 2015, accessed January 6, 2018 .
1992: Edgar Grospiron | 1994: Jean-Luc Brassard | 1998: Jonny Moseley | 2002: Janne Lahtela | 2006: Dale Begg-Smith | 2010: Alexandre Bilodeau | 2014: Alexandre Bilodeau | 2018: Mikaël Kingsbury
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| SURNAME | Kingsbury, Mikaël |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian freestyle skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts |