Kyle Nissen

{{Short description|Canadian freestyle skier (born 1979)}}

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Kyle Nissen (born August 23, 1979) is a Canadian freestyle skier.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Kyle Nissen |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/kyle-nissen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418063417/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/kyle-nissen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=29 September 2009}}

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Nissen competes in aerials, and made his World Cup debut in December 1999. He made his first World Cup podium later that season, winning an event in Heavenly, California.{{cite web |title=FIS-biography |url=http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/613.html?sector=FS&listid=&competitorid=43705&type=result |work=fis-ski.com |accessdate=29 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711004333/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/613.html?sector=FS&listid=&competitorid=43705&type=result |archive-date=11 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}

Nissen has won one other World Cup event, at Mont Gabriel in 2006, and has placed on the podium at 10 other events. His most successful season came in 2006, when he placed 2nd overall in the World Cup standings, behind Dmitri Dashinski. Nissen's best showing at the World Championships came in 2005, when he finished 5th, also behind Dashinski.

Nissen also competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, qualifying for the aerials final 7th place. In the final, he was 9th after the first jump, but moved up to 5th after scoring the most points in the competition on the second jump.{{cite web |title=Torino 2006 Official Report - Freestyle Skiing |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2006/Results/FreestyleSkiing.pdf |work=Torino Organizing Committee |publisher=LA84 Foundation |date=March 2009 |accessdate=September 29, 2009}}

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Nissen finished 9th in the qualification with 233.71 points after two jumps and qualified for the finals{{cite web |url=http://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/FS/8036/2010FS8036QRL.pdf |title=Cypress Mountain Freestyle Skiing Men's Aerials Qualification |website=fis-ski.com |publisher=VANOC |date=February 22, 2010}} In jump 1 of the finals, he scored 126.92 points and led the second place competitor Aleksei Grishin of Belarus by 6.34 points. However, in jump 2, Nissen performed poorly and scored only 112.39 points, second-last from the 12 competitors in the finals. Nissen finished with an overall result of fifth place.{{cite web |url=http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/FS/8036/2010FS8036FRL.pdf |title=Cypress Mountain Freestyle Skiing Men's Final |website=fis-ski.com |publisher=VANOC |date=February 25, 2010}}