Mikaël Kingsbury

Mikaël Kingsbury (born July 24, 1992) is a Canadian freestyle skier He achieved eminence early in his career after earning the 2009–10 FIS World Cup Rookie of the Year award. He is a 13-time FIS Freestyle World Cup title-holder for overall moguls and nine-time title-holder for overall freestyle, owning the records for most men's Moguls World Cup titles and Overall Freestyle World Cup titles. He also holds the records for 100 career World Cup moguls wins and 13 consecutive Freestyle World Cup event wins. He is the first man to have won both the moguls and dual moguls World Championship events (sweeping the two events three times), and has won the most medals at the Freestyle World Championships of any male competitor in history, having won a medal in 15 of the 16 events he has competed in. Kingsbury also won the Olympic silver medal in 2014, 2022 and 2026, and the gold medal in men's moguls at the 2018 Winter Olympics and men's dual moguls at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Career Early success After several seasons of competition in the Nor-Am Cup, Kingsbury enjoyed much greater success in 2010, winning four moguls and one dual moguls event before finishing the year on the World Cup circuit with two consecutive fourth-place finishes. He was named the 2009–10 FIS World Cup Rookie of the Year for these efforts.

Kingsbury earned his first World Cup podium in the first moguls event of his first full World Cup season, then followed this up with his first World Cup win on December 21, 2010. With the victory, he became the first 18-year-old to win a FIS Freestyle World Cup event.

Kingsbury continued his breakthrough season with one more World Cup event win and five additional medals, finishing the 2010–11 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup season fourth overall and third in the moguls discipline, behind countryman Alexandre Bilodeau and winner Guilbaut Colas. In the midst of this season, he competed in his first 2011 FIS World Championships and began with a bronze medal in the moguls event behind Bilodeau and winner Colas. In the dual moguls event, Kingsbury fell in the final pairing, again finishing behind Bilodeau, this time for the silver medal. Reflecting on his first World Championships, Kingsbury stated: "I never thought at the beginning of the season that I'd be able to be two times on the podium at Deer Valley, the hardest course in the world. Alex, since I was young, was my example to follow; it's awesome to be in the final against him."

First World Cup and World Championship titles Kingsbury won six consecutive World Cup events to start the 2011–2012 season. While the streak ended with a second-place finish in the next event, Kingsbury became only the second man to podium at every FIS freestyle competition in a season, with eight golds, four silvers, and a bronze. In doing so, he won his first FIS Freestyle Crystal Globe for moguls and the overall Crystal Globe for all freestyle disciplines. "I never thought I would've been able to do this at 19 years old," Kingsbury later remarked. "But this season, I've skied great, I've been consistent every race, and I think that was the key for me."

To date, this remains his most successful World Cup season in terms of wins, podiums, and points, and his achievements during the season broke or matched several FIS records. Kingsbury's 90.77 overall points were the most achieved in a men's FIS Freestyle World Cup season since 2003. With 1180 of a maximum of 1300 points in moguls, he set a men's FIS Freestyle World Cup record for the most points in a season in an individual discipline. He became the youngest male mogul skier to win a Crystal Globe and set a record for the most podiums in a season (13), in addition to matching the record held by American Jeremy Bloom for the most consecutive World Cup wins at six. Kingsbury next competed in the dual moguls finals where he would find himself in the final matchup against teammate Bilodeau again. He again failed to beat him, but this still left him as the silver medalist completing a second double medal World Championships.

Surpassing Brassard During the 2013–14 season, Kingsbury began the season with three consecutive victories. However, Canadian teammate Bilodeau, who had finished 2nd in each of the first three races, experienced a resurgence and won the next three world cup events to overtake Kingsbury in both FIS World Cup Moguls and overall standings.

At the Sochi Olympics, Kingsbury had a small stumble in his final run to finish with 24.71, finishing second to Bilodeau's 26.31 and collecting his first Olympic medal. After winning his first Olympic medal Kingsbury said: "I was going for gold, but just to be on the podium is crazy and I am with my teammate, it's just unbelievable."

Entering the season's final event, Kingsbury now led Bilodeau by 3 points for the Men's overall freestyle title and by 31 points for the Men's mogul's title. In the final event, the two faced off again in the dual moguls final. Bilodeau retired with a win over Kingsbury, stating that he was "really honoured to have [his] last run against the best in the world." Kingsbury added another silver medal, and ultimately edged Bilodeau by 1 point for the overall freestyle title and 11 points for the Men's mogul title; at 890 points and 879 points respectively, Kingsbury and Bilodeau finished the season with double the points of third overall Patrick Deneen.

Reaching new heights: World Cup and World Championship records and Olympics success The FIS had suggested before the start of the 2014–15 season that "with Bilodeau now out of the picture, the story of the... season will be whether somebody, anybody, will be able to challenge Mikael Kingsbury's claim to moguls supremacy." Kingsbury answered this question with what the Canadian Freestyle Association considered to be "arguably one of the most prolific and impressive seasons in freestyle history," punctuated by a 19–16 victory over teammate Philippe Marquis in the dual moguls finals of the eighth event of the World Cup season in Tazawako, Japan. In doing so, Kingsbury won his record seventh straight FIS World Cup moguls event after starting the season with a disappointing ninth-place finish, breaking the previous record of six consecutive wins that he had shared with Jeremy Bloom. Despite falling short, his performance helped Canada claim the moguls Nations Cup and the FIS Freestyle overall Nations cup, the latter in an incredibly tight battle, finishing only 54 points ahead of the US. Kingsbury also finished the day with the moguls and Freestyle overall crystal globes for the fourth straight season.

In the midst of his successful World Cup season, Kingsbury won his first World Championship title in the dual moguls event, over Canadian teammates Philippe Marquis and Marc-Antoine Gagnon. This was the first time a country has swept the podium in the history of the dual moguls event at the World Championships. He was unable to defend his gold in the moguls event, finishing second to Anthony Benna after finishing first in qualification and leading into Final 2. His 2nd place showing still ensured that his streak of six consecutive podium finishes at the World Championships would continue.

Kingsbury had to wait nearly nine months for another opportunity to set the men's record for World Cup moguls skiing victories. He made good on this chance at the 2015–16 season-opening dual moguls event in Finland by defeating Benjamin Cavet of France 20–15 in the finals en route to claiming the moguls and Freestyle overall crystal globes for the fifth straight season.

In January 2018, Kingsbury set a new record for the most World Cup wins, surpassing Hannah Kearney's 47. The next month, Kingsbury won his elusive Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang with a score of 86.63. On December 11, Kingsbury was rewarded for his record-setting season when he was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy, honouring Canada's top athlete of the year. This was followed by The Canadian Press' male athlete of the year Lionel Conacher Award on December 27; in both cases, he was the first freestyle skier to win the award.

Kingsbury missed the first three events of the shortened 2020–2021 World cup season after fracturing his T4 and T5 vertebrae while training for the opening World Cup event. He returned for the final two World Cup season events, winning both. He then swept both moguls events at the 2021 Freestyle World Championships in Kazakhstan.

On January 24, 2022, Kingsbury was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. He added another silver at Beijing 2022, becoming the first male moguls skier to ever win three Olympic medals.

In 2023 he became the first four-time winner of the singles moguls world championship, before extending his record number of dual moguls world championship gold titles to 4, achieving the sweep of both moguls events for the 3rd straight World Championship.

Kingsbury swept all three World Cup Moguls season titles in 2024–25 — singles, dual, and overall moguls, with a season total of 13 medals (nine golds, four silvers) across 16 events, raising his career World Cup event wins to 99. He followed this up with his 14th and 15th medals at the 2025 World Championships, capped by his 9th gold medal and 4th straight dual moguls title.

A groin injury limited Kingsbury's 2025–26 season, but he claimed his 100th career World Cup victory on January 9, 2026. Named to the Canadian team for the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy, Kingsbury served as one of Canada's flag bearers at the opening ceremony, alongside fellow freestyle skier Marielle Thompson. Competing first in the moguls event, he and Australian Cooper Woods tied for the highest score in the final, each receiving 83.71 points. Woods prevailed on the tiebreaker, having the higher marks on the turns element, and so Kingsbury won the silver medal. Canada had not won a gold medal through the first eight days, the longest span without one since 1988, attracting increasing national consternation. Kingsbury reached the dual moguls final, where he defeated Japan's Ikuma Horishima to take Canada's first gold medal in 2026. He hailed the result as "one of the best days of my life."

World Cup victories Kingsbury has achieved 100 victories in the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup.

No. Date Location Discipline1 December 21, 2010 Beida Lake, China Moguls 2 January 29, 2011 Calgary, Canada Moguls 3 December 10, 2011 Ruka, Finland Moguls 4 December 20, 2011 Meribel, France Dual Moguls 5 January 14, 2012 Mont Gabriel, Canada Dual Moguls 6 January 19, 2012 Lake Placid, United States Moguls 7 January 28, 2012 Calgary, Canada Moguls 8 February 2, 2012 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 9 February 12, 2012 Beida Lake, China Moguls 10 February 18, 2012 Naeba, Japan Moguls 11 December 15, 2012 Ruka, Finland Dual Moguls 12 January 17, 2013 Lake Placid, United States Moguls 13 January 26, 2013 Calgary, Canada Moguls 14 January 31, 2013 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 15 February 15, 2013 Sochi, Russia Moguls 16 February 23, 2013 Inawashiro, Japan Moguls 17 December 14, 2013 Ruka, Finland Moguls 18 January 4, 2014 Calgary, Canada Moguls 19 January 9, 2014 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 20 March 2, 2014 Inawashiro, Japan Dual Moguls 21 March 16, 2014 Voss, Norway Dual Moguls 22 January 3, 2015 Calgary, Canada Moguls 23 January 9, 2015 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 24 January 10, 2015 Deer Valley, United States Dual Moguls 25 January 29, 2015 Lake Placid, United States Moguls 26 February 7, 2015 Val St. Come, Quebec, Canada Moguls 27 February 28, 2015 Tazawako, Japan Moguls 28 March 1, 2015 Tazawako, Japan Dual Moguls 29 December 12, 2015 Ruka, Finland Dual Moguls 30 January 23, 2016 Val St. Come, Canada Moguls 31 January 30, 2016 Calgary, Canada Moguls 32 February 28, 2016 Tazawako, Japan Dual Moguls 33 March 5, 2016 Moscow, Russia Dual Moguls 34 December 10, 2016 Ruka, Finland Moguls 35 January 21, 2017 Val St. Come, Canada Moguls 36 February 2, 2017 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 37 February 4, 2017 Deer Valley, United States Dual Moguls 38 February 11, 2017 Phoenix Park Pyeongchang, South Korea Moguls 39 February 18, 2017 Tazawako, Japan Moguls 40 February 19, 2017 Tazawako, Japan Dual Moguls 41 February 25, 2017 Thaiwoo, China Moguls 42 February 26, 2017 Thaiwoo, China Dual Moguls 43 December 9, 2017 Ruka, Finland Moguls 44 December 21, 2017 Thaiwoo, China Moguls 45 December 22, 2017 Thaiwoo, China Moguls 46 January 6, 2018 Calgary, Canada Moguls 47 January 10, 2018 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 48 January 11, 2018 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 49 March 18, 2018 Megève, France Dual Moguls 50 December 7, 2018 Ruka, Finland Moguls 51 December 15, 2018 Thaiwoo, China Moguls 52 December 16, 2018 Thaiwoo, China Dual Moguls 53 January 12, 2019 Calgary, Canada Moguls 54 January 26, 2019 Mont Tremblant, Canada Moguls 55 February 23, 2019 Tazawako, Japan Moguls 56 February 24, 2019 Tazawako, Japan Dual Moguls 57 December 7, 2019 Ruka, Finland Moguls 58 December 15, 2019 Thaiwoo, China Dual Moguls 59 January 25, 2020 Mont Tremblant, Canada Moguls 60 February 1, 2020 Calgary, Canada Moguls 61 February 8, 2020 Deer Valley, United States Dual Moguls 62 February 22, 2020 Tazawako, Japan Moguls 63 March 7, 2020 Krasnoyarsk, Russia Dual Moguls 64 February 4, 2021 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 65 February 5, 2021 Deer Valley, United States Dual Moguls 66 December 4, 2021 Ruka, Finland Moguls 67 December 12, 2021 Idre, Sweden Dual Moguls 68 December 18, 2021 Alpe d'Huez, France Dual Moguls 69 January 7, 2022 Mont Tremblant, Canada Moguls 70 January 8, 2022 Mont Tremblant, Canada Moguls 71 January 13, 2022 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 72 March 12, 2022 Chiesa in Valmalenco, Italy Dual Moguls 73 March 18, 2022 Megève, France Moguls 74 March 19, 2022 Megève, France Dual Moguls 75 December 3, 2022 Ruka, Finland Moguls 76 December 11, 2022 Idre, Sweden Dual Moguls 77 January 27, 2023 Val St. Come, Canada Moguls 78 February 4, 2023 Deer Valley, United States Dual Moguls 79 March 17, 2023 Almaty, Kazakhstan Moguls 80 March 18, 2023 Almaty, Kazakhstan Dual Moguls 81 December 8, 2023 Idre, Sweden Moguls 82 December 9, 2023 Idre, Sweden Dual Moguls 83 December 15, 2023 Alpe d'Huez, France Moguls 84 December 23, 2023 Bakuriani, Georgia Dual Moguls 85 January 20, 2024 Val St. Come, Canada Dual Moguls 86 January 27, 2024 Waterville, United States Dual Moguls 87 February 1, 2024 Deer Valley, United States Moguls 88 March 8, 2024 Almaty, Kazakhstan Moguls 89 March 9, 2024 Almaty, Kazakhstan Dual Moguls 90 March 16, 2024 Chiesa in Valmalenco, Italy Dual Moguls 91 November 30, 2024 Ruka, Finland Moguls 92 December 6, 2024 Idre, Sweden Moguls 93 January 24, 2025 Waterville, United States Moguls 94 January 25, 2025 Waterville, United States Dual Moguls 95 January 31, 2025 Val St. Come, Canada Moguls 96 February 1, 2025 Val St. Come, Canada Dual Moguls 97 February 28, 2025 Almaty, Kazakhstan Moguls 98 March 1, 2025 Almaty, Kazakhstan Dual Moguls 99 March 12, 2025 Livigno, Italy Dual Moguls100January 10, 2026Val St. Côme, CanadaDual Moguls