Kyle Nissen (born August 23, 1979) is a
Canadian
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freestyle skier
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.
Born in
Calgary, Alberta, Nissen competes in
aerials, and made his
World Cup debut in December 1999. He made his first World Cup podium later that season, winning an event in
Heavenly, California.
Nissen has won one other World Cup event, at
Mont Gabriel
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in 2006, and has placed on the podium at 10 other events. His most successful season came in 2006, when he placed 2nd overall in the World Cup standings, behind
Dmitri Dashinski. Nissen's best showing at the
World Championships came in
2005
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, when he finished 5th, also behind Dashinski.
[
Nissen also competed in the ]2006 Winter Olympics
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in Turin
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, qualifying for the aerials final 7th place. In the final, he was 9th after the first jump, but moved up to 5th after scoring the most points in the competition on the second jump.2010 Winter Olympics
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in Vancouver
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, Nissen finished 9th in the qualification with 233.71 points after two jumps and qualified for the finals In jump 1 of the finals, he scored 126.92 points and led the second place competitor Aleksei Grishin
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of Belarus
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by 6.34 points. However, in jump 2, Nissen performed poorly and scored only 112.39 points, second-last from the 12 competitors in the finals. Nissen finished with an overall result of fifth place.
World Cup Podiums
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References
External links
FIS profileOfficial site
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1979 births
Living people
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Calgary
Canadian male freestyle skiers