Ryan St. Onge (born February 7, 1983) 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 ...

who has competed since 1997.

Career

He won a gold medal in the aerials event at the

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. At the

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, St. Onge finished 16th in the aerials event. He also has seven World Cup victories in aerials from 2005 to 2009. St. Onge was named to the US team for the

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in January 2010, qualified and finished fourth.

References

* * * 1983 births American male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic freestyle skiers for the United States {{US-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub