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Mikaël Kingsbury won the men’s dual moguls final on Sunday to capture Canada’s first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.
Kingsbury won the big final against Ikuma Horishima of Japan, who took silver, while Matt Graham of Australia rounded out the podium in the bronze-medal position.
It’s the second medal win of these Games for the native of Deux-Montagnes, Que. Kingsbury took silver after losing a tiebreaker in the final of the moguls event on Thursday.
The 33-year-old is the only men’s freestyle skier in history to own five Olympic medals. Kingsbury previously won moguls gold in 2018 and owns silver medals from both the 2014 and 2022 Olympic Games.
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Mikaël Kingsbury wins dual moguls for Canada’s 1st gold at Milano Cortina 2026
Mikaël Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., wins the inaugural Olympic men’s dual moguls competition at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. The Canadian earns the fifth Olympic medal of his career (two gold and three silver), extending his record of Olympic medals won by a male freestyle skiing athlete.
Olympic debut for the discipline
This was the first time a men’s dual moguls event had been contested an a Winter Games.
The discipline sees two competitors race down the course at the same time – but speed is just one part of how the event is judged. Scoring is also based on how a skier handles the moguls and how their legs stay together (turns), and what they do over the jumps (air).
Kingsbury opened competition with a 25-10 win over Czechia’s Matyas Kroupa in the 1/16 final before defeating Pavel Kolmakov of Kazakhstan 23-12. The Canadian won his quarterfinal after Daeyoon Jung of South Korea did not finish.
Kingsbury guaranteed himself a medal after defeating Japan’s Takuya Shimakawa in the semifinals 33-2. Earlier, Shimakawa had eliminated the other two Canadians in the competition.
Elliot Vaillancourt, of Drummondville, Que., lost in the first round to Shimakawa by a score of 20-15.
Canada’s Julien Viel, who had a first-round bye, crashed hard in his 1/8 final matchup against Shimakawa. The 24-year-old from Quebec City was able to ski off the course under his own power but registered as a did not finish.
