Russ Henshaw (born 7 June 1990) is an Australian

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 ...

. He won a silver medal in ''Slopestyle'' at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in

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, behind Sammy Carlson. Russ represented

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in slopestyle at the

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, where he finished 19th.

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* * * * * 1990 births Living people Australian male freestyle skiers X Games competitors Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for Australia Skiers from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub