Jan Bucher (born 1957) 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 ...

and world champion. She won a gold medal in acroski (

ski ballet Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980 ...

) at the

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1986 The 1986 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between February 2 and February 6 at the Tignes ski resort in France. The World Championships were the first to be held in the freestyle skiing discipline and featured both men's and women's e ...

Tignes Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good ...

. At the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1989 in

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, she won a second gold medal in ski ballet. She won a silver medal in ski ballet at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1991 in Lake Placid. She took part at the

1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Calgary 1988 were a multi-sport event held from February 13 to 28, 1988, with Calgary, Calgary, Alberta as the main host city. This marks the m ...

Calgary Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...

, where ski ballet was a demonstration event.

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* 1957 births Living people American female freestyle skiers 21st-century American women 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub