FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015

{{Infobox games

| name = FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015

| logo = FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015.png

| size = 165px

| caption = Logo

| host_city = Kreischberg

| country = Austria

| motto =

| nations = 40

| athletes =

| opening = {{Start date|2015|01|15}}

| closing = {{End date|2015|01|25}}

| events = 24

| website = {{URL|http://www.kreischberg2015.at/|kreischberg2015.at}}

| previous = 2013 (freestyle)
2013 (snowboard)

| next = 2017

}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Presseinformationen_WM_2015_Englisch.pdf |title=One year to go – Kreischberg is ready to host the FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships 2015! |website=kreischberg2015.at/ |access-date=14 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122221909/http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Presseinformationen_WM_2015_Englisch.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2015 }} 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

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Final

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| style="text-align:left;" | Moguls

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| style="text-align:left;" | Dual Moguls

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| style="text-align:left;" | Aerials

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| style="text-align:left;" | Freestyle halfpipe

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| style="text-align:left;" | Freestyle slopestyle

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| style="text-align:left;" | Ski cross

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| style="text-align:left;" | Big air

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| style="text-align:left;" | Snowboard halfpipe

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| style="text-align:left;" | Snowboard slopestyle

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| style="text-align:left;" | Snowboard cross

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| style="text-align:left;" | Parallel giant slalom

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| style="text-align:left;" | Parallel slalom

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Medalists

=Freestyle skiing=

==Men's events==

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Moguls
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's moguls}}

|Anthony Benna
{{FRA}}

86.89

|Mikaël Kingsbury
{{CAN}}

86.54

|Alexandr Smyshlyaev
{{RUS}}

85.68
Dual moguls
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's dual moguls}}

|colspan="2"|Mikaël Kingsbury
{{CAN}}

|colspan="2"|Philippe Marquis
{{CAN}}

|colspan="2"|Marc-Antoine Gagnon
{{CAN}}

Aerials
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's aerials}}

|Qi Guangpu
{{CHN}}

139.50

|Alex Bowen
{{USA}}

121.27

|Maxim Gustik
{{BLR}}

119.91
Halfpipe
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's ski halfpipe}}

| Kyle Smaine
{{USA}}

88.00

| Joffrey Pollet-Villard
{{FRA}}

86.60

| Yannic Lerjen
{{SUI}}

82.40
Slopestyle
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's ski slopestyle}}

| Fabian Bösch
{{SUI}}

92.60

| Russell Henshaw
{{AUS}}

91.80

| Noah Wallace
{{USA}}

82.40
Ski cross
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's ski cross}}

| colspan="2"|Filip Flisar
{{SLO}}

| colspan="2"|Jean-Frédéric Chapuis
{{FRA}}

| colspan="2"|Victor Öhling Norberg
{{SWE}}

==Women's events==

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Moguls
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's moguls}}

|Justine Dufour-Lapointe
{{CAN}}

87.25

|Hannah Kearney
{{USA}}

85.66

|Britteny Cox
{{AUS}}

81.98
Dual moguls
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's dual moguls}}

|colspan="2"|Hannah Kearney
{{USA}}

|colspan="2"|Justine Dufour-Lapointe
{{CAN}}

|colspan="2"|Yulia Galysheva
{{KAZ}}

Aerials
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's aerials}}

|Laura Peel
{{AUS}}

88.47

|Kiley McKinnon
{{USA}}

88.12

|Xu Mengtao
{{CHN}}

86.84
Halfpipe
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's ski halfpipe}}

| Virginie Faivre
{{SUI}}

83.80

| Cassie Sharpe
{{CAN}}

81.00

| Mirjam Jäger
{{SUI}}

79.80
Slopestyle
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's ski slopestyle}}

| Lisa Zimmermann
{{GER}}

85.80

| Katie Summerhayes
{{GBR2}}

82.80

| Zuzana Stromkova
{{SVK}}

77.60
Ski cross
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's ski cross}}

|colspan="2"|Andrea Limbacher
{{AUT}}

|colspan="2"|Ophélie David
{{FRA}}

|colspan="2"|Fanny Smith
{{SUI}}

=Snowboarding=

==Men's events==

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Big air
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's big air}}

|Roope Tonteri
{{FIN}}

173.75

|Darcy Sharpe
{{CAN}}

169.50

|Kyle Mack
{{USA}}

163.50
Halfpipe
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's snowboard halfpipe}}

| Scotty James
{{AUS}}

91.50

| Yiwei Zhang
{{CHN}}

89.50

| Tim-Kevin Ravnjak
{{SLO}}

89.25
Slopestyle
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's snowboard slopestyle}}

|Ryan Stassel
{{USA}}

97.50

|Roope Tonteri
{{FIN}}

93.75

|Kyle Mack
{{USA}}

92.75
Snowboard cross
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's snowboard cross}}

|colspan="2"| Luca Matteotti
{{ITA}}

|colspan="2"| Kevin Hill
{{CAN}}

|colspan="2"| Nick Baumgartner
{{USA}}

{{Nowrap|Parallel giant slalom}}
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's parallel giant slalom}}

|colspan="2"| Andrey Sobolev
{{RUS}}

|colspan="2"| Žan Košir
{{SLO}}

|colspan="2"| Benjamin Karl
{{AUT}}

Parallel slalom
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Men's parallel slalom}}

|colspan="2"| Roland Fischnaller
{{ITA}}

|colspan="2"| Andrey Sobolev
{{RUS}}

|colspan="2"| Rok Marguč
{{SLO}}

==Women's events==

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Big air
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's big air}}

|Elena Könz
{{SUI}}

157.75

|Merika Enne
{{FIN}}

148.75

|Sina Candrian
{{SUI}}

143.25
Halfpipe
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's snowboard halfpipe}}

| Xuetong Cai
{{CHN}}

94.25

| Queralt Castellet
{{ESP}}

81.25

| Clémence Grimal
{{FRA}}

80.25
Slopestyle
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's snowboard slopestyle}}

| Miyabi Onitsuka
{{JPN}}

92.50

| Anna Gasser
{{AUT}}

89.50

| Klaudia Medlova
{{SVK}}

84.25
Snowboard cross
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's snowboard cross}}

|colspan="2"| Lindsay Jacobellis
{{USA}}

|colspan="2"| Nelly Moenne Loccoz
{{FRA}}

|colspan="2"| Michela Moioli
{{ITA}}

{{Nowrap|Parallel giant slalom}}
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's parallel giant slalom}}

|colspan="2"| Claudia Riegler
{{AUT}}

|colspan="2"| Alena Zavarzina
{{RUS}}

|colspan="2"| Tomoka Takeuchi
{{JPN}}

Parallel slalom
{{DetailsLink|FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 – Women's parallel slalom}}

|colspan="2"| Ester Ledecka
{{CZE}}

|colspan="2"| Julia Dujmovits
{{AUT}}

|colspan="2"| Marion Kreiner
{{AUT}}

Participating countries

A total of 40 countries entered athletes.{{cite web |url=http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Nationenliste_aktuell.pdf |title=Nations in English |website=kreischberg2015.at/ |access-date=14 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122071931/http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Nationenliste_aktuell.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}

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  • {{AND}}
  • {{ARG}}
  • {{AUS}}
  • {{AUT}}
  • {{BLR}}
  • {{BEL}}
  • {{BRA}}
  • {{BUL}}
  • {{CAN}}
  • {{CHN}}
  • {{CRO}}
  • {{CZE}}
  • {{DEN}}
  • {{FIN}}
  • {{FRA}}
  • {{GEO}}
  • {{GER}}
  • {{GBR}}
  • {{GRE}}
  • {{HUN}}
  • {{IRN}}
  • {{IRL}}
  • {{ITA}}
  • {{JPN}}
  • {{KAZ}}
  • {{NED}}
  • {{NZL}}
  • {{NOR}}
  • {{POL}}
  • {{ROU}}
  • {{RUS}}
  • {{SRB}}
  • {{SVK}}
  • {{SLO}}
  • {{KOR}}
  • {{ESP}}
  • {{SWE}}
  • {{SUI}}
  • {{UKR}}
  • {{USA}}

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Medal table

{{Medals table

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| host =

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| team =

| gold_USA = 4 | silver_USA = 3 | bronze_USA = 4

| gold_SUI = 3 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 4

| gold_CAN = 2 | silver_CAN = 6 | bronze_CAN = 1

| gold_AUT = 2 | silver_AUT = 2 | bronze_AUT = 2

| gold_AUS = 2 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 1

| gold_CHN = 2 | silver_CHN = 1 | bronze_CHN = 1

| gold_ITA = 2 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1

| gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 4 | bronze_FRA = 1

| gold_RUS = 1 | silver_RUS = 2 | bronze_RUS = 1

| gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 2 | bronze_FIN = 0

| gold_SLO = 1 | silver_SLO = 1 | bronze_SLO = 2

| gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1

| gold_CZE = 1 | silver_CZE = 0 | bronze_CZE = 0

| gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 0

| gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 1 | bronze_GBR = 0

| gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 0

| gold_SVK = 0 | silver_SVK = 0 | bronze_SVK = 2

| gold_BLR = 0 | silver_BLR = 0 | bronze_BLR = 1

| gold_KAZ = 0 | silver_KAZ = 0 | bronze_KAZ = 1

| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 1

}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.infrontsports.com/news/2014/10/2015-fis-freestyle-and-snowboard-world-championships-to-be-broadcast-free-of-charge-on-youtube-for-the-first-time-ever/ |title=2015 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships to be broadcast free-of-charge on YouTube for the first time ever |date=8 October 2014 |website=infrontsports.com/|publisher=Infront Sports & Media |access-date=14 January 2014}}

References

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