Bryon Wilson (born April 7, 1988) 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

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bronze medalist. He earned a spot on the US Freestyle Ski Team for the

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after a solid beginning to the

2009–10 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup The 2009/10 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup was the thirty first World Cup season in freestyle skiing organised by International Ski Federation. The season started on 12 December 2009 and lasted until 18 March 2010. This season included three disc ...

season where he had two 2nd-place finishes during the first weekend of competition at Suomu,

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. Bryon was born and lived in

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, for most of his life until his family made the decision to move to

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, to be closer to an advanced training facility to enable him, along with his younger brother Brad Wilson, to advance their skills and build a career in competitive skiing. The boys learned gymnastics from a young age and began skiing as toddlers. They later began to combine the two sports. Both brothers train at

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and the

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in Park City. At the 2010

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Olympics, Wilson won the bronze medal in men's moguls with a score of 26.08.

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* 1988 births American male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic freestyle skiers of the United States Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in freestyle skiing Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Butte, Montana {{US-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub

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