Eric Bergoust

{{short description|American freestyle skier}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}

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| name = Eric Bergoust

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|August 27, 1969}}

| birth_place = Missoula, Montana, U.S.

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{{MedalSport|Men's freestyle skiing}}

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}

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{{MedalGold|1998 Nagano|Aerials}}

{{MedalCompetition| FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships}}

{{MedalGold| 1999 Meiringen-Hasliberg|Aerials}}

{{MedalSilver| 1997 Iizuna Kogen|Aerials}}

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Eric Bergoust (born August 27, 1969) is an American freestyle skier. In 1998 Bergoust participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan where he won a gold medal in the freestyle ski jump (aerials).[http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BERGOERI01 Profile: "Eric Bergoust"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827095539/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BERGOERI01 |date=August 27, 2007 }} databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 8, 2008){{cite web |title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Eric Bergoust |url=http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers4/bergoust.html |work=Great Falls Tribune |author=Tribune Staff |access-date=August 24, 2011}}

Bergoust was born in Missoula, Montana.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/eric-bergoust-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224810/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/eric-bergoust-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Eric Bergoust |accessdate=April 29, 2015}} He has competed in aerials at four successive Winter Olympics. In addition to the gold medal in 1998, he finished 7th in 1994, 12th in 2002, and 17th in 2006.

He is one of five people known to have performed a quadruple flip on snow, along with Frank Bare, Jr., Lloyd Langlois, Matt Chojnacki and Nicolas Fontaine.