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Xu Mengtao

Chinese freestyle skier (born 1990)

Xu Mengtao
Summary

Chinese freestyle skier (born 1990)

FieldValue
nameXu Mengtao
imageXu Mengtao 2014 Sochi.jpg
captionXu in 2014
nationalityChinese
birth_date
birth_placeAnshan, Liaoning, China
height1.65 m
weight59 kg
countryChina
sportFreestyle skiing
eventAerials
educationDoctor of Philosophy candidate
alma_materBeijing Sport University
life_partnerWang Xindi
show-medalsyes

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Xu Mengtao (; Mandarin pronunciation: ; born 12 July 1990) is an Olympic Champion Chinese aerial skier. She has 27 World Cup victories and an Olympic Gold. She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31. She was one of Team China's flag bearers, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.

Career Results

Olympic Games

She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where she qualified eighth, and had the highest score after the first jump in the finals. However, she crashed on her second jump and ended up in sixth place.

Xu brought home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics with a score of 83.50 in the Ladies Aerials finals. She had obtained a score of 101.08 in jump 2 of Final 1, the highest score in the finals, but fell in Final 2.

In the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Xu obtained a score of 91 in the first jump, placing her in second place, but crashed in the second jump and did not advance, ending up in 9th overall.

In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Xu won a silver in the mixed team aerials, and also won a gold medal in the Women's Aerial Ski with a final score of 108.61, after landing a jump with three somersaults, edging out defending champion Hanna Huskova with an impressive score of 107.95 and Ashley Caldwell, who had the highest score in Final 1. In doing so, she became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in this event, after five previous silvers by Chinese athletes since the event was added in 1994.

closing ceremony
YearLocationResult
2010CAN Vancouver6th Aerials
2014RUS SochiAerials
2018KOR Pyeongchang9th Aerials
2022CHN BeijingAerials

World Championships

YearLocationResult
2009JPN InawashiroAerials
2011USA Deer ValleyAerials
2013NOR VossAerials
2015AUT KreischbergAerials
2017ESP Sierra NevadaAerials
2019USA Park CityAerials

World Cup

Standings

SeasonAerials
2006/0716
2008/094
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/156
2015/1627
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20

Individual wins

DateLocation
14 February 2009RUS Moscow
20 December 2009CHN Changchun
18 December 2010CHN Beidahu
16 January 2011CAN Sainte-Adèle
20 January 2012USA Lake Placid
21 January 2012USA Lake Placid
29 January 2012CAN Calgary
3 February 2012USA Park City
17 March 2012NOR Voss
5 January 2013CHN Changchun
12 January 2013CAN Saint-Côme
18 January 2013USA Lake Placid
1 February 2013USA Park City
17 February 2013RUS Sochi
20 December 2014CHN Beijing
21 December 2014CHN Beijing
17 December 2016CHN Beidahu
10 February 2017KOR Bongpyeong
12 January 2018USA Park City
20 January 2018USA Lake Placid
19 January 2019USA Lake Placid
23 February 2019BLR Minsk
3 March 2019CHN Changchun
21 December 2019CHN Changchun
22 December 2019CHN Changchun
3 December 2021FIN Kuusamo
5 January 2022CAN Lac-Beauport

References

References

  1. link. (4 June 2011)
  2. "XU Mengtou". [[Beijing 2022 Olympics]].
  3. (13 February 2022). "Canada's Marion Thénault finishes 7th in Olympic women's aerials final".
  4. "Awesome Xu Mengtao takes aerials gold for China".
  5. "Gao Tingyu, Xu Mengtao to be flag bearers of Chinese delegation at closing ceremony-Xinhua".
  6. "Vancouver 2010 Profile". [[Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games]].
  7. {{cite Sports-Reference
  8. [http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing/schedule-and-results/ladies-aerials-final_frw030100Ei.html Vancouver 2010 Ladies' Aerials results] {{webarchive. link. (24 February 2010)
  9. "Mengtao XU".
  10. (14 February 2022). "Tearful Xu Mengtao takes China's Winter Games gold tally to five".
  11. "OCA » China settles for silver in first mixed aerials team event".
  12. (2022-02-14). "Olympics Live: Austria takes gold in ski jumping team event".
  13. (2022-02-14). "Skier Xu of China wins gold in women's aerials".
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