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Norwegian freestyle skier (born 2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Birk Ruud (born 2 April 2000) is a Norwegian freestyle skier in halfpipe and slopestyle and Olympic champion in big air.
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Born | Bærum, Norway | 2 April 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Big air, Halfpipe, Slopestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Bærums SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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In 2016, he won Gold (Slopestyle) at the Winter Youth Olympics at Lillehammer.[1]
He participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019, winning the silver medal in the slopestyle event.[2]
He has won 4 medals (including 2 golds) in X Games (Norway 2018, Aspen 2019, Aspen 2020, Norway 2020).[3][4]
During the 2022 Winter Olympics, 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.[5] On his victory run, Ruud did a double 1440 mute holding the Norwegian flag, scoring perfect 69s in doing so.[6]
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