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Birk Ruud (born 2 April 2000) is a Norwegian
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 ...
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and
slopestyle Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features. Points are scored for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks. The disc ...
and Olympic champion in big air. In 2016, he won Gold (Slopestyle) at the
Winter Youth Olympics The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international multi-sport event for athletes between 15 and 18 years old, organized by the International Olympic Committee. The games are held every four years in staggered summer and winter events consisten ...
at Lillehammer. He participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019, winning the silver medal in the slopestyle event. He has won 4 medals (including 2 golds) in X Games (Norway 2018, Aspen 2019, Aspen 2020, Norway 2020). During the
2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Bei ...
, Ruud qualified first in the inaugural big air event. During the final, Ruud secured the gold medal on his first run, scoring a combined score of 187.75. On his victory run, Ruud did a double 1440 mute holding the Norwegian flag, scoring perfect 69s in doing so.


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List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals This is a partial list of athletes who Youth Olympic and Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won at least one Youth Olympics and Olympic gold medals. : Names in Bold denote people that have competed in the most recent Youth Olympics, ...


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* * * * * 2000 births Living people Skiers from Bærum Norwegian male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Norway Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for Norway Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing 21st-century Norwegian people X Games athletes {{Norway-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub