Peter Speight (born 26 December 1992) is a British

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

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

finishing 15th. Speight made his World Cup halfpipe debut in 2013 and achieved his career best World Cup finish with a 4th place in China, December 2017.https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/freestyle-skiing/athlete-profile-n3036539-peter-speight.htm He has won the British championships twice in 2016 and 2017. Born in East London, Speight moved to Sheffield aged 10 where he first took up freestyle skiing when his father took him to try it out at the Sheffield Ski Village dry slope. Spending his teens competing and skiing around the UK dry slope scene, he progressed up to international level when he was 17, competing at the European Freeski Open in Laax, Switzerland. Speight continued with freestyle skiing into his 20s, heading abroad when he left school to ski and chase halfpipe competitions in Europe, the US and New Zealand. He reached the finals in the NZ Freeski Open and was selected for the British Halfpipe team and his debut World Championships in 2013. He is the first British man to land a Double Cork 1260 in a halfpipe. Speight narrowly missed out on the 2014 Winter Olympics. He then went on to receive lottery funding from U.K Sport and qualified for the Olympics in South Korea in 2018. He finished the 2018 season ranked 15th in the world before retiring from competitions in 2019. Speight also studied History at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. He received support through a sport scholarship and

TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

funding, combining his sport and studies for 4 years before graduating in 2016.

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1992 births Living people Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics British male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers of Great Britain {{UK-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub