FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
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The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980.[1][2] Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. In the 1980s and 1990s there were also ski ballet and combined, which no longer exist.
FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup | |
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Genre | freestyle skiing - moguls, aerials, ski cross - halfpipe, slopestyle, big air |
Location(s) | Europe, Japan, Canada, United States, Australia, Belarus, New Zealand, South Korea, China, Russia |
Inaugurated | 5 January 1980 (5 January 1980) |
Organised by | International Ski Federation |
People | Joe Fitzgerald (coordinator) Kathrin Hostettler (assistant) JP Baralo (SX and SBX race director) |
2022–23 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup |
Races are hosted primarily at ski resorts in North America, the Alps in Europe, with regular stops in Scandinavia, east Asia, but a few races have also been held in the Southern Hemisphere. World Cup competitions have been hosted in 22 countries around the world: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.[3] (note that all world cup races hosted at ski resort in Ukraine was still part of Soviet Union respectively.)