Émile Nadeau (born 13 January 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.
Career
Nadeau joined the national team in 2020.
[ In early 2022, along with fellow aerialist Miha Fontaine, Nadeau started to introduce more complex tricks into his routines to improve and consistency in his placements. This led to a fifth-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 name is ...
, his second career top five (the first being a fourth-place finish a year earlier).
On January 24, 2022, Nadeau was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. Nadeau was the youngest male Canadian athlete on the team.
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2004 births
Living people
Canadian male freestyle skiers
Skiing people from Quebec
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
21st-century Canadian sportsmen
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