Hailing from a small hill in Indiana, Nick Goepper gets big results, including an Olympic bronze medal, a second-straight X Games gold and a second-straight AFP slopestyle title. (Getty Images/Cameron Spencer)
Over the weekend, Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) and Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, Mont.) walked away from the first FIS World Cup slopestyle of the season with solid fourth place finishes.
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Nick Goepper won his third consecutive X Games slopestyle gold medal and Olympic champion Joss Christensen (Park City, UT) took home the silver. On the women’s side, Keri Herman (Breckenridge, CO) won the silver medal.
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A record-matching 17 Team USA skiers and snowboarders left the Sochi Olympic Winter Games with medals, including a record eight gold and a sweep of the first-ever slopestyle skiing event by Joss Christensen, Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper.
Nick Goepper talks about being part of an American podium sweep and his bronze medal run. (Photo: Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
It was a U.S. podium sweep at the historic debut of men’s slopestyle skiing in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games Thursday, when Joss Christensen took the first-ever gold medal with Gus Kenworthy earning silver and Nick Goepper bronze.
Olympian Nick Goepper, seen here last year a X Games Aspen, became the first man since 2004 to win back-to-back slopestyle skiing gold medals at X Games on Sunday, just two weeks from the sport's Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia.
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A smart and talented Midwest native, Nick Goepper has the tools for success and it shows with his impressive roster of results, which includes an Olympic bronze medal, four X Games medals (three of them gold) and podium finishes at pretty much every other major event in freeskiing. The 2014 season marked a standout year for Goepper, who landed on the podium at nearly every event he entered. Multiple World Cup podiums, a win at the Dew Tour and a second-straight X Games gold medal set the stage for his success in Sochi. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, Goepper made history for his sport and country by taking home the first-ever bronze medal in ski slopestyle and by sweeping the podium with fellow teammates Joss Christensen and Gus Kenworthy. Goepper topped off his banner season with his second-straight AFP slopestyle title. Goepper's success continued in 2015 when he won his third-consecutive gold medal at X Games Aspen. He also took podiums at the Dew Tour and the Frostgun Invitational, but then began to struggle with a series of shoulder injuries, starting with a dislocated left shoulder in Austria. He eventually had surgery on the shoulder and returned to snow in January of 2016. Goepper began making waves on the slopestyle scene in 2012 with a silver at X Games Aspen, a win at Dew Tour Snowbasin, a third at Dew Tour Breckenridge and a slew of other podium results. Then in 2013 Goepper won gold at X Games Aspen, was third at the FIS World Championships and won his first AFP slopestyle title. In addition to his podium-worthy skiing, Goepper graduated high school with a 3.7 GPA, earning himself an academic scholarship to Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah. FIRST TRACKS OFF THE SNOW
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HighlightsTeams: 2014 Bronze, SS, Sochi, RUS, 2014
Gold, SS, Aspen, CO 2015 Gold, SS, Aspen, CO 2014 Gold, SS, Aspen, CO, 2013 Silver, SS, Aspen, CO, 2012
16th, Overall, 2015 1st, SS, 2014 1st, SS, 2013 2nd, SS, 2012 17th, SS, 2011 Teams: 2013 3rd, SS, Voss, NOR, 2013
Five starts, two podiums, one win since 2012 2nd, SS, Copper Mountain, CO, Dec 2013 1st, SS, New Zealand Winter Games, Cardrona, 2013 5th, SS, Copper Mountain, CO, Jan. 2013
GRAND PRIX 5th, SS, Breckenridge, CO, 2014 2nd, SS, Copper Mountain, CO, Dec. 2013 5th, SS, Copper Mountain, CO, Jan. 2013
OTHER 2nd, SS, Frostgun Invitational, 2015 2nd, SS, The Dumont Cup, Sunday River, ME, 2014 1st, SS, Dew Tour, Breckenridge, CO, 2013 1st, SS, The North Face New Zealand Freeski Open, Cardrona, 2013 2nd, SS, WSI/AFP World Championships, Whistler, BC, 2013 1st, SS, Austrian Freeski Open, Kaprun, AUT, 2013 1st, SS, The Dumont Cup, Sunday River, ME, 2013 1st, SS, Dew Tour, Snow Basin, UT, 2012 2nd, SS, WSI/AFP World Championships, Whistler, BC, 2013 2nd, SS, The Dumont Cup, Sunday River, ME, 2012 3rd, SS, Dew Tour, Breckenridge, CO, 2011 3rd, SS, New Zealand Winter Games, Cardrona, NZL, 2011
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