FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships

The freestyle skiing world championships are organized by the International Ski Federation FIS. The athletes will compete in freestyle skiing in the disciplines Aerials, Moguls, Halfpipe, dual moguls and ski cross.

History of the World Championships

The freestyle skiing world championships were first held in 1986 in the French ski resort of Tignes. The World Championships 1988 took place during the Olympic Games held in Calgary and served as a demonstration competitions for inclusion as an Olympic sport. Since the introduction of the world championship, there are continuous changes in discharge mode and number of competitions. At the World Championships from 1986 to 1997, the so-called "classic" were held competitions. These included the competitions moguls, jumping, ballet and combination, the combined score consisted of the addition of the three remaining competitions.

Due to the lack of interest the combination you took in 1997 from the program. In Meiringen 1999, the double moguls (Dual Moguls ) celebrated its premiere and it was temporarily re four disciplines. Once was canceled due to low public interest and under pressure from the National Ski the ballet ( Acro ) from the program, the number of competitions in turn limited to three. After a short Bedenkpause the FIS decided to adapt to the interests of the new generation of freestylers. On the FIS Congress in 2002 they carried this development and took the booming ski cross and halfpipe disciplines on to the World Cup and World Championship program. Both competitions were successfully incorporated into the 2002/03 season in the World Cup events and celebrated your world championship debut in 2005 in Ruka. 2015, the freestyle skiing World Cup was first held, together with the Snowboard World Cup.

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