Nicolas Gygax

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Nicolas Gygax Freestyle skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 15th February 1996 (age 24)
size 188 cm
Weight 77 kg
Career
discipline Aerials
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Park City 2019 Aerials team
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 20th February 2016
 Overall World Cup 103rd ( 2016/17 )
 Aerials World Cup 15. (2018/19)
last change: March 18, 2020

Nicolas Gygax (born February 15, 1996 ) is a Swiss freestyle skier . He starts in the aerials discipline (jumping).

biography

Gygax comes from Islisberg in the canton of Aargau . At the age of seven he started doing gymnastics , eight years later he switched to freestyle jumping. After graduating from high school in 2015, he began studying economics at the University of Zurich .

Gygax first played in the European Cup in January 2011. He slowly approached the top and in January 2016 won three European Cup victories in a row, which resulted in first place in the discipline classification of the 2015/16 season. His debut in the Freestyle World Cup took place on February 20, 2016 in Minsk , where he reached 13th place. A week later he achieved his best result at the Junior World Championships (4th place) at the same location. In the 2016/17 World Cup season , he jumped into the top ten twice. Although he could not quite maintain this level in the 2017/18 World Cup season , he qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where he jumped to 23rd place.

After a somewhat subdued start to the 2018/19 season, Gygax surprisingly won the gold medal in the team competition held for the first time at the 2019 World Championships in Park City (together with Carol Bouvard and Noé Roth ); he received the highest rating of all finalists.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

Gygax has so far achieved two placements among the top ten in the World Cup.

Ratings:

season total Aerials
space Points space Points
2015/16 179. 3.33 35. 20th
2016/17 103. 13.29 22 93
2017/18 158. 7.33 30th 44
2018/19 78. 16.60 15th 83
2019/20 165. 5.71 27. 40

European Cup

  • 2015/16 season: 1st aerials discipline ranking
  • 6 podium places, including 4 wins

Junior World Championships

  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2013: 18th Aerials
  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2014: 9th Aerials
  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2015: 13th Aerials
  • Minsk 2016: 4th Aerials

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolas Gygax. Schweizer Sporthilfe , accessed on February 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Swiss Aerials team wins World Cup gold. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , February 8, 2019, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gygax, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss freestyle skis
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1996