Gustav Legnavsky (born 23 September 2005) is a New Zealand

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 specialises in

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. He represented New Zealand at 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 ...

in Beijing.

Biography

Legnavsky was born in

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on 23 September 2005, the son of Pete and Bridget Legnavsky. His father competed in

mogul skiing Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle Wor ...

FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980. Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. ...

events between 1990 and 1993, and represented Slovakia at the 1993 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, finishing 50th in the men's moguls. Gustav Legnavsky began skiing as an infant. He is a student at

Mount Aspiring College Mount Aspiring College is a state coeducational secondary school in Wānaka, New Zealand. It was founded in 1986 after the division of Wanaka Area School into separate primary and secondary schools. The college, though normally a day school, o ...

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. Legnavsky competed in the halfpipe at the

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in 2019. The youngest competitor in the field, he finished in 14th place. In March 2021, he finished 16th in the men's halfpipe at the 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships in

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. He made his

debut a week later, with a 27th placing at Aspen. His best result in the Freestyle Ski World Cup 2021–2022 season was eighth in the halfpipe at

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in January 2022. Representing New Zealand in the men's halfpipe at the

, Legnavsky was 19th in qualifying, and did not progress to the final.

References

2005 births Living people Sportspeople from Dunedin People educated at Mount Aspiring College Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for New Zealand New Zealand male freestyle skiers {{NewZealand-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub