Christopher Lillis (born October 4, 1998) is an American

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 ...

. In the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

, he won a gold medal in the mixed team aerials event. He participated in Freestyle Aerial Skiing at the

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021 The 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Idre, Rogla, Almaty and Aspen with the ski and snowboard cross events held in Idre from 11 to 13 February 2021, the parallel and giant slalom snowboard in Rogla from ...

, winning a medal. He is the youngest man to ever win an FIS Aerials World Cup at 17 years old. He came in first in 2016 in

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. He also came in first in

Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...

in 2020. His brother

Jonathon Lillis Jonathon Lillis (born August 20, 1994) is an American freestyle skier who competes internationally. He competed for US at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where he won a gold medal in men ...

competed at the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

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Chris Lillis
at U.S. Ski & Snowboard {{DEFAULTSORT:Lillis, Christopher Living people 1998 births American male freestyle skiers Sportspeople from Rochester, New York Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in freestyle skiing