Mikaël Kingsbury – Wikipedia
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| Birthday | July 24, 1992 (30 years) | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Kanada | ||||||||||||
| Size | 175 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Moguls, Dual Moguls | ||||||||||||
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Mikaël Kingsbury (* July 24, 1992 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec) is a Canadian freestyle skis. It specializes in the mogul and dual mogul’s moguls. In these disciplines, he is the most successful athlete in history. Both the overall ranking of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and the Moguls discipline rating were able to win northern times in a row between 2012 and 2020. There are also six world championship titles, five other World Cup medals as well as the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2014 silver medal.
Kingsbury grew up in the city of Deux-Montagnes and took part in FIS competitions from March 2005. From January 2008 he took part in the NOR-AM Cup, the North American continental championship. After achieving the first podium at the beginning of 2009, he reached five wins in the 2009/10 season. With more than the double number of the second place, he won the Moguls discipline ranking of the Nor-AM Cup.
Kingsbury had his debut in the World Cup on January 8, 2010 in Calgary, where he was 54th. On March 12th of the same year he won the first World Cup points with 15th place in Åre. Just a day later, he was able to establish himself in the middle of the top of the world. With second place in Ruka, he achieved the first World Cup podium placement on December 11, 2010. The first victory followed nine days later in Beida Lake. At the 2011 World Championships, he won the silver medal in Dual Moguls and the bronze medal in the Moguls competition. Because of these successes, the FIS chose him to Rookie of the Year . [first]
In the 2011/12 season, Kingsbury dominated the competition almost at will. He achieved eight World Cup victories, six in a row, with which he hired a record of Jeremy Bloom from 2005. There were also four second and a third place. He was on the podium for every participation, which made it into consideration of both the overall World Cup ranking and the Moguls discipline ranking. With a total of 13 podium places in one season, he set a new record. [2] Kingsbury was similarly dominant in the 2012/13 season with six World Cup victories. At the 2013 World Championships in Voss, he won the Moguls Gold Medal, and there was also the dual mogul silver medal. Likewise, he was able to win the overall World Cup ranking and the Moguls discipline ranking for the second time.
Kingsbury started the 2013/14 World Cup season with three wins in a row. After that, however, he fell back somewhat behind Alexandre Bilodeau in the discipline ranking. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he also had to give up and won the silver medal. Towards the end of the season, he was able to increase again and celebrate two more victories, which for the third time in a row he won both the Moguls discipline rating and the overall ranking. In the second last race of the season, on March 16, 2014 in Ruka, he realized his 21st World Cup victory at the age of only 21 and thus exceeded the previous Canadian record, which was held by Jean-Luc Brassard. [3]
At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, Kingsbury won three World Cup competitions in a row. Before the 2015 World Championships, he was therefore considered a house-high favorite: Somewhat surprisingly, he was beaten by the Frenchman Anthony Benna in Kreischberg in the Moguls competition and had to be content with the silver medal. On the other hand, he secured the world championship title in the dual moggular competition. With two other World Cup victories afterwards, he secured the discipline rating and the overall ranking. Kingsbury also continued his winning streak in the 2015/16 season. His victory in Ruka’s first competition on December 12, 2015 was the 29th, with which he was now the sole record holder ahead of Edgar Grospiron. [4] With four other victories, he was determined for the fifth time as the winner of the overall and discipline World Cup.
In the 2016/17 season, Kingsbury was almost impossible. At nine of eleven World Cup competitions, he was at the top of the podium, with which he secured the overall and discipline World Cup for the sixth time. On the other hand, the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada did not go according to plan: he finished third in the Moguls competition, while he only achieved 13th place in the dual mogul competition (by far the worst result of the season). In winter 2017/18, Kingsbury was again superior to the competition. With seven World Cups and three second places, he secured both ratings for the seventh time in a row. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he confirmed his favorite role and won the gold medal in the Moguls competition.
He won his third and fourth world championship title, one each in both disciplines, at the 2019 World Championships in Park City, making him the second freestyle double world champion in Trace Worthington in 1995. He was almost unable to beat in the 2018/19 World Cup: with seven other victories, he secured the overall and discipline rating for the eighth time in a row. The superiority continued in the 2019/20 World Cup with seven wins, which gave him the ninth victory in series in both ratings.
At the end of November 2020, Kingsbury broke the thoracic vertebrae TH4 and TH5 in a training session in Ruka in Finnish, thereby contracting a coarser injury for the first time in his long career. [5] He had to pause for several weeks and missed the chance to hire the record of ten overall World Cup triumph as a result of the Swiss Conny Kissling. On February 4, 2021, he gave his World Cup comeback in the Deer Valley and immediately won both competitions. At the World Championships in Almaty, he lived up to his favorite role again and won the fifth and sixth World Cup gold medal in both Moguls disciplines. Due to his forced break after nine victories, he had to resign in series for the first time due to his forced break.
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Kingsbury has won 93 podiums in the World Cup so far, including 65 victories:
Moguls:
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- 7 podium places, including 5 wins
- Season 2009/10: 1st Moguls Discipline Rating
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- 1 victory in the European Cup
- 4 Canadian championship titles (Moguls 2015, 2016, 2017; Dual Moguls 2016)
- ↑ Callum of: Mikael Kingsbury has one thing left to do. CBC Sports, December 8, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Canada takes four medals at mogul finals. Freestyle Canada, March 18, 2012, accessed on January 6, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Mikael Kingsbury breaks Canadian record for World Cup wins. CTV, 16. März 2014, accessed on January 6, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury takes over top spot in career wins at World Cup moguls. Toronto Star, December 12, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Donna Spencer: Canadian moguls star Mikael Kingsbury out 4 to 6 weeks with back injury. The Canadian Press/CBC, 3. Dezember 2020, accessed on March 28, 2021 (English).
Moguls Olympic champion
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