| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | August 27, 1969 (1969-08-27) (age 54) Missoula, Montana, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eric Bergoust (born August 27, 1969) is an American freestyle skier. In 1998 Bergoust participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan where he won a gold medal in the freestyle ski jump (aerials).[1][2]
Bergoust was born in Missoula, Montana.[3] He has competed in aerials at four successive Winter Olympics. In addition to the gold medal in 1998, he finished 7th in 1994, 12th in 2002, and 17th in 2006.
He is one of five people known to have performed a quadruple flip on snow, along with Frank Bare, Jr., Lloyd Langlois, Matt Chojnacki and Nicolas Fontaine.
|
| |
|---|---|
| Aerials |
 Aleš Valenta (CZE) Han Xiaopeng (CHN) Aleksei Grishin (BLR) Anton Kushnir (BLR) Oleksandr Abramenko (UKR) Qi Guangpu (CHN) |
| Big air | |
| Halfpipe |
 David Wise (USA) Nico Porteous (NZL) |
| Moguls |
Jonny Moseley (USA) Janne Lahtela (FIN) Dale Begg-Smith (AUS) Alexandre Bilodeau (CAN) Alexandre Bilodeau (CAN) Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) Walter Wallberg (SWE) |
| Ski cross |
Brady Leman (CAN) Ryan Regez (SUI) |
| Slopestyle |
Alex Hall (USA) |
|
| |
|---|---|
 Lloyd Langlois Philippe LaRoche Philippe LaRoche Trace Worthington Nicolas Fontaine Eric Bergoust Aleksei Grishin Dmitry Arkhipov Steve Omischl Han Xiaopeng Ryan St. Onge Warren Shouldice Qi Guangpu Qi Guangpu Jonathon Lillis Maxim Burov Maxim Burov Noé Roth |
  | This article about an American Winter Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biographical article relating to freestyle skiing in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
