Jan Bucher (born 1957) 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 ...

and world champion. She won a gold medal in acroski (

ski ballet Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980 ...

) at the

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1986 The 1986 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between February 2nd and February 6th at the Tignes ski resort in France. The World Championships were the first to be held in the freestyle skiing discipline and featured both men's and women ...

Tignes Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good tr ...

. At the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1989 in

Oberjoch Oberjoch is a small village in the municipality of Bad Hindelang in the German district of Oberallgäu, Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of German ...

, she won a second gold medal in ski ballet. She won a silver medal in ski ballet at the

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1991 The 1991 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between February 11th and February 17th in Lake Placid, New York. The World Championships featured both men's and women's events in the Moguls, Aerials, Acro Skiing and the Combined. Results ...

in Lake Placid. She took part at the

1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, Mohkínsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts� ...

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

, where ski ballet was a demonstration event.

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* 1957 births Living people American female freestyle skiers 21st-century American women {{US-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub