Émile Nadeau (born 13 January 2004) is a Canadian
freestyle skier
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...
who competes internationally in the
aerials discipline.
Career
Nadeau joined the national team in 2020.
[ In early 2022, along with fellow aerialist ]Miha Fontaine
Miha Fontaine (born January 3, 2004) is a Canadian freestyle skier who competes internationally in the aerials discipline. He is the son of former Aerials world champion Nicolas Fontaine.
Career
Fontaine joined the national team in 2019. In earl ...
, Nadeau started to introduce more complex tricks into his routines to improve and consistency in his placements. This led to a fifth-place finish at the Deer Valley stop of the World Cup, his second career top five (the first being a fourth-place finish a year earlier).
On January 24, 2022, Nadeau was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. Nadeau was the youngest male Canadian athlete on the team.
References
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2004 births
Living people
Canadian male freestyle skiers
Skiing people from Quebec
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
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