Wild was originally a member of the US Association and took part in the 2011 Snowboard World Championship for it. In the same year he married the Russian snowboarder Aljona Sawarsina (* 1989) and also changed nationality.
Vic Wild contested his first World Cup race as a Russian in December 2012 in Karersee and promptly reached his first podium with third place in the parallel giant slalom. A month later, Wild won bronze in the same discipline at the Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham, Canada .
2014 Winter Olympics
In January 2014, Wild won a parallel slalom in Bad Gastein and thus his first World Cup race. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi , he was Olympic champion in the parallel giant slalom and in the parallel slalom.
Olympic Winter Games 2018
In the parallel giant slalom held as part of the 2018 Winter Olympics , the 31-year-old was eliminated on February 24 in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang in the round of 16 and finished in tenth place.
United States (until 2011) Russia (since 2011)
World cup
Bad Gastein
Rogla
