Miha Fontaine (born January 3, 2004) is a Canadian
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 competes internationally in the
aerials discipline.
He is the son of former Aerials world champion
Nicolas Fontaine
Nicolas Fontaine (born 5 October 1970 in Magog, Quebec) is a Canadian freestyle skier. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, where he placed sixth in aerials. He also competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and at the 2 ...
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Career
Fontaine joined the national team in 2019.
[ In early 2022, along with fellow aerialist Émile Nadeau, Fontaine started to introduce more complex tricks into his routines to improve and consistency in his placements. This led to a sixth-place finish at the Deer Valley stop of the ]World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
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Winter Olympics medalist
On January 24, 2022 Fontaine was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. At the games, Fontaine was a part of Canada's bronze medal winning mixed aerials team.
World Championships results
Olympic results
References
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2004 births
Living people
People from Magog, Quebec
Canadian male freestyle skiers
Skiing people from Quebec
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
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