Alex Schlopy

Alex Schlopy ( born July 25, 1992 Park City, Utah) is an American freestyle skiers in the sub-discipline of slopestyle.

Schlopys parents are the three-time downhill World Cup champion Holly Flanders and NFL football player Todd Schlopy, who brought her son at the age of two years for skiing. At 14 years, some have been shown to Schlopys jumps in a film of the Teton Gravity Research, which produces, among other ski and snowboard films. His sporting breakthrough was achieved by the Americans in the winter of 2009 /2010. As an amateur, he decided in late March 2010, endowed with $ 12,000 competition within the Dumont Cup for himself, beating several professional slopestylers. He had previously placed with other races with professional involvement also in the top ten. After these good results, the sports and apparel company Oakley Schlopy offered in summer 2010 at a place in he sponsored Oakley Ski Team, took the 18 -year-old and became the pro.

In his first winter as a professional Schlopy get his hitherto greatest successes: At the Winter X Games 2011, he won the end of January 2011, the gold medal in the Big Air, where he showed, among other things, a double cork 16, a jump, he never had graduated to a race. A week later, on February 3, Schlopy won in the freestyle skiing World Cup at Deer Valley Resort ( in his home town of Park City ) the slopestyle competition. He became the first world champion in this discipline before his compatriot Sam Carlson and the Australian Russell Henshaw. After the race, he explained, so do well in his home town, was the best thing he could imagine.