The 2015 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Kreischberg, Austria from January 15–25, 2015. In 2014, the FIS (International Ski Federation) decided to merge the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships with the FIS Snowboarding World Championships starting with these championships. The Austrian municipality of Kreischberg was awarded the event in 2010.
Qualification for the women's aerials event began a day before the opening ceremony. Freestyle skiers competed in six disciplines: moguls, dual moguls, ski cross, slopestyle, halfpipe and aerials. Snowboarders competed in six disciplines: halfpipe, slopestyle, parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom, big air and snowboard cross.
Schedule QQualification FFinal Event↓/Date → Wed 14 Thu 15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21 Thu 22 Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Moguls Q F Dual Moguls Q F Aerials Q F Freestyle halfpipe Q Q F Freestyle slopestyle Q F Ski cross Q F Big air Q F Snowboard halfpipe Q F Snowboard slopestyle Q F Snowboard cross Q F Parallel giant slalom Q F Parallel slalom Q F
Medalists
Freestyle skiing
Men's events Moguls Anthony Benna 86.89Mikaël Kingsbury 86.54Alexandr Smyshlyaev 85.68 Dual moguls Mikaël Kingsbury Philippe Marquis Marc-Antoine Gagnon Aerials Qi Guangpu 139.50Alex Bowen 121.27Maxim Gustik 119.91 Halfpipe Kyle Smaine88.00 Joffrey Pollet-Villard86.60 Yannic Lerjen82.40 Slopestyle Fabian Bösch92.60 Russell Henshaw91.80 Noah Wallace82.40 Ski cross Filip FlisarJean-Frédéric ChapuisVictor Öhling Norberg
Women's events Moguls Justine Dufour-Lapointe 87.25Hannah Kearney 85.66Britteny Cox 81.98 Dual moguls Hannah KearneyJustine Dufour-LapointeYulia Galysheva Aerials Laura Peel88.47Kiley McKinnon 88.12Xu Mengtao 86.84 Halfpipe Virginie Faivre83.80 Cassie Sharpe81.00 Mirjam Jäger79.80 Slopestyle Lisa Zimmermann85.80 Katie Summerhayes82.80 Zuzana Stromkova77.60 Ski cross Andrea LimbacherOphélie DavidFanny Smith
Snowboarding
Men's events Big air Roope Tonteri 173.75Darcy Sharpe 169.50Kyle Mack 163.50 Halfpipe Scotty James 91.50 Yiwei Zhang 89.50 Tim-Kevin Ravnjak 89.25 Slopestyle Ryan Stassel 97.50Roope Tonteri 93.75Kyle Mack 92.75 Snowboard cross Luca Matteotti Kevin Hill Nick Baumgartner Andrey Sobolev Žan Košir Benjamin Karl Parallel slalom Roland Fischnaller Andrey Sobolev Rok Marguč
Women's events Big air Elena Könz 157.75Merika Enne 148.75Sina Candrian 143.25 Halfpipe Xuetong Cai 94.25 Queralt Castellet 81.25 Clémence Grimal 80.25 Slopestyle Miyabi Onitsuka 92.50 Anna Gasser 89.50 Klaudia Medlova 84.25 Snowboard cross Lindsay Jacobellis Nelly Moenne Loccoz Michela Moioli Claudia Riegler Alena Zavarzina Tomoka Takeuchi Parallel slalom Ester Ledecka Julia Dujmovits Marion Kreiner
Participating countries A total of 40 countries entered athletes.
Medal table
Broadcasting This was the first time the championships were available for live viewing on YouTube for free of charge, in countries where broadcasting agreements were not in place.
References
External links Official website