Freestyle Skiing Competitions

Until today the freestyle skiing competitions have been organised for men and women as follows: Ski Cross, Aerials Individual, Aerials Team Events and Moguls – Individual event. In 2003 Ski Cross was organised by FISU for the first time and it was included into the FISU Regulations. The running of competitions is always supervised by the FISU Technical Committee Chair for Freestyle Skiing and the FIS Technical Delegate, who chair all technical meetings concerned. All slopes (venues) must follow the requirements of the International Ski Federation (FIS) and be approved by FIS to host international events.

History of Freestyle Skiing in FISU

Freestyle skiing is a very young discipline where skiers compete against each other in groups of four to six on a freestyle cross course that is specially built. Freestyle skiing has recently gained more attention from the public and it has experienced phenomenal growth also in the international student sports community. Freestyle skiing continues to evolve. This exciting snow discipline was partly (Ski Cross) organised for the first time in the history of the Winter Universiade during the 22nd edition in Innsbruck, Austria, where it was a great success in both men’s and women’s categories. Many former and still active good alpine skiers participated in this freestyle skiing event. At the 25th WU in Erzurum, Moguls were added on the programme of the freestyle skiing competitions in addition to Ski Cross. This competition had an enormous success also in terms of worldwide broadcasting. Men’s results: 1st: Aleksandr Kerner (RUS) /2nd: Evgeny Mikhailov (RUS) / 3rd: Denis Moisseyev (KAZ) / Women’s results: 1st: Darya Rybalova (KAZ) / 2nd: Irina Pisarevskaya (RUS) / 3rd: Alena Zueva (RUS). Freestyle Skiing has been in the Winter Universiade optional programme since 2005.

Freestyle Skiing, Mixed Team Aerials Super Final from Almaty 2017 Winter Universiade

Previous Events

• 2019 - 29th Winter Universiade – Krasnoyarsk (RUS)
• 2017 - 28th Winter Universiade – Almaty (KAZ)
• 2015 - 27th Winter Universiade – Granada (ESP)
• 2013 - 26th Winter Universiade – Trentino (ITA)
• 2011 - 25th Winter Universiade – Erzurum (TUR)
• 2009 - 24th Winter Universiade – Harbin (CHN)