It’s the first Olympic medal win for the 24-year-old freestyle skier from Parry Sound
Freestyle skier Megan Oldham has won Canada’s second medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics with a bronze in women’s slopestyle skiing. Oldham, from Parry Sound, entered the final run in third spot and solidified her podium position with her best score of 76.46.
It’s the first Olympic medal win for the 24-year-old, a former gymnast and figure skater who switched to freestyle skiing at 14.
Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud won gold to repeat as Olympic champion, while China’s Eileen Gu took the silver medal.
Following her win, she told CBC that she was determined to rebound following a disastrous second run where she crashed.
“Honestly, that was a really hard battle after that second run. I fell and really hurt my quad. So at the top, I was just trying to stay calm, and I kept telling myself, ‘I just need to land one more run. That’s all I gotta do.’ So I’m so proud of myself.”
Oldham added that the support she has received played a part in her win.
“It’s so special. I’m so grateful to have my whole family here. My best friends came out, as well as my boyfriend, and they’re just such a great support crew, and it just gives me that extra motivation to go hard for this one right here.”
Oldham made her Olympic debut at Beijing 2022, where she was the top qualifier for the women’s big air final. She ended up finishing just off the podium in fourth place. She missed advancing to the slopestyle final by just one spot.
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Oldham has won four medals at the FIS World Championships. In her debut in 2021, she won slopestyle bronze as she rebounded from a fall in her first run. She came close to hitting the podium in big air as well, finishing fourth. She reached the podium in both events in 2023, taking slopestyle silver and big air bronze. In 2025, she added another bronze in slopestyle and finished fifth in big air.
Oldham has been a standout performer at the Winter X Games, winning seven medals (as of 2025). Her success began in Norway in 2020, where she won the gold in big air. She had been crashing on almost every trick she tried in training, but decided in the start gate to just trust her muscle memory and even landed her dub 12 safety, which she hadn’t tried on the jump that week.
Oldham was a double medallist at the 2021 Winter X Games in Aspen, where she won big air silver and slopestyle bronze. At the 2022 Winter X Games in Aspen, Oldham repeated as the silver medallist in big air and bronze medallist in slopestyle. She had a history-making moment at the 2023 Winter X Games, where she became the first woman to land a triple cork in any ski or snowboard event to take big air gold. She also won the gold medal in slopestyle.
In her first year on the FIS World Cup circuit in 2018-19, Oldham won the slopestyle Crystal Globe as the overall top-ranked skier in the discipline. She had won her first medal, a silver, in Seiser Alm, Italy, in just her third World Cup event. She added a bronze at Mammoth Mountain in March before closing the season with her first World Cup victory in Silvaplana, Switzerland.
Oldham has 11 career World Cup podiums, including four victories.
Oldham first competed internationally on the Nor-Am Cup circuit in February 2018, winning slopestyle gold in her very first event. She competed at the 2019 FIS Junior World Championships, where her big air silver was Canada’s first-ever medal in the discipline at the junior worlds.
It’s not the first Olympic slopestyle medal for this area.
Huntsville’s Dara Howell won the inaugural gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
With files from Jeff Turl
