Marco Tadé (born 3 December 1995) is a Swiss
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 ...
. He competed in the
2022 Winter Olympics
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.
Career
Tadé began skiing in 2000. He won a bronze medal at the 2014
Junior World Championships in the dual moguls event. He also won a bronze medal in dual moguls at the
2017 World Championships. His career high World Cup placement is second, which he achieved in moguls in
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in the
2020–21 season and in dual moguls in
Thaiwoo
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2022 Winter Olympics
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in the 2016–17 season. He was selected to represent Switzerland at the
2018 Winter Olympics
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but was forced to withdraw due to injury.
He failed to qualify in the first qualifying round but was the final qualifier into the finals of the
men's moguls event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. He then finished 18th out of 20 competitors in the first final round,
eliminating him from medal contention.
References
1995 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Swiss male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland
People from Locarno
Sportspeople from Ticino
21st-century Swiss people
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