Andri Ragettli (born 21 August 1998) is a Swiss

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. He has won ten world cup titles and five crystal globes, including slopestyle in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, as well as big air in 2019. He represented

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in slopestyle at the

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, where he qualified for the

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, along with two fellow Swiss skiers, and finished 7th. Andri won his first X-Games gold medal at X-Games Norway 2020, which was his childhood dream. Since then he has added two more X-Games gold medals: one in big air (

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) and one in Slopestyle (

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). At the

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he qualified in first place for slopestyle finals but ended up 4th in the end. He is the first skier to perform a quad cork 1800 on skis. At the 2019 Audi Nines he became the second person to perform a quad cork 1980 on skis, after fellow Swiss skier

Fabian Bösch Fabian Bösch (born 6 July 1997) is a Swiss freestyle skier. He has won gold medals at both Winter X Games and World Championships. Fabian represented Switzerland in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

Works

* ''Attack your dreams,'' Giger Verlag, 2022.

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* * 1998 births Living people X Games athletes Swiss male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub