Miha Fontaine (born January 3, 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.
He is the son of former Aerials world champion
Nicolas Fontaine.
Career
Fontaine joined the national team in 2019.
[ In early 2022, along with fellow aerialist ]Émile Nadeau
Émile Nadeau (born 13 January 2004) is a Canadian Freestyle skiing, freestyle skier who competes internationally in the Aerial skiing, aerials discipline.
Career
Nadeau joined the national team in 2020. In early 2022, along with fellow aerialist ...
, Fontaine started to introduce more complex tricks into his routines to improve and consistency in his placements. This led to a sixth-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 ...
.
Winter Olympics medalist
On January 24, 2022 Fontaine was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. At the games, Fontaine was a part of Canada's bronze medal winning mixed aerials team.
World Championships results
Olympic results
References
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2004 births
Living people
People from Magog, Quebec
Canadian male freestyle skiers
Skiing people from Quebec
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
21st-century Canadian sportsmen
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