Xu Mengtao (; ; born 12 July 1990) is a Chinese Olympic Champion aerial skier. She has achieved 27 World Cup victories and two Olympic Gold medals.FIS Bio She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31. She was one of Team China's flag bearers at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.
Career Results Olympic Games She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where she qualified eighth, and had the highest score after the first jump in the finals. However, she crashed on her second jump and ended up in sixth place.Vancouver 2010 Ladies' Aerials results
Xu brought home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics with a score of 83.50 in the Ladies Aerials finals. She had obtained a score of 101.08 in jump 2 of Final 1, the highest score in the finals, but fell in Final 2.
In the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Xu obtained a score of 91 in the first jump, placing her in second place, but crashed in the second jump and did not advance, ending up in 9th overall.
In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Xu won a silver in the mixed team aerials, and also won a gold medal in the Women's Aerial Ski with a final score of 108.61, after landing a jump with three somersaults, edging out defending champion Hanna Huskova with an impressive score of 107.95 and Ashley Caldwell, who had the highest score in Final 1. In doing so, she became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in this event, after five previous silvers by Chinese athletes since the event was added in 1994.
She represented China at the 2026 Winter Olympics and won a gold medal in the women's aerials event with a score of 112.90, with her husband Wang Xindi winning gold in the men's aerials event.
Year Location Result 2010 Vancouver 6th Aerials 2014 Sochi Aerials 2018 Pyeongchang 9th Aerials 2022 Beijing Aerials 2026 Milano-Cortina Aerials
World Championships Year Location Result 2009 Inawashiro Aerials 2011 Deer Valley Aerials 2013 Voss Aerials 2015 Kreischberg Aerials 2017 Sierra Nevada Aerials 2019 Park City Aerials
World Cup Standings Season Aerials 2006/07 16 2008/09 4 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 6 2015/16 27 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20
Individual wins Date Location14 February 2009 Moscow20 December 2009 Changchun18 December 2010 Beidahu16 January 2011 Sainte-Adèle20 January 2012 Lake Placid21 January 2012 Lake Placid29 January 2012 Calgary3 February 2012 Park City17 March 2012 Voss5 January 2013 Changchun12 January 2013 Saint-Côme18 January 2013 Lake Placid1 February 2013 Park City17 February 2013 Sochi20 December 2014 Beijing21 December 2014 Beijing17 December 2016 Beidahu10 February 2017 Bongpyeong12 January 2018 Park City20 January 2018 Lake Placid19 January 2019 Lake Placid23 February 2019 Minsk3 March 2019 Changchun21 December 2019 Changchun22 December 2019 Changchun3 December 2021 Kuusamo5 January 2022 Lac-Beauport
References
External links
Xu Mengtao at Milano Cortina 2026