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Weight
165
 

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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
Goepper was five years old when he started skiing at Perfect North Slopes--his local ski hill in Southern Indiana. He says, “I took lessons in a ‘Ski-Doodles’ program. After my lessons, Mom would let me go up the rope tow and would catch me at the bottom. She needed to catch me because I couldn’t stop or turn.”

OFF THE SNOW
Goepper digs anything that incorporates moving and competing. You’ll find him surfing, skateboarding, playing ping-pong and going out an occasional date.

 

 

Highlights

OLYMPICS

Teams: 2014

Bronze, SS, Sochi, RUS, 2014

 

X GAMES

Gold, SS, Aspen, CO 2015

Gold, SS, Aspen, CO 2014

Gold, SS, Aspen, CO, 2013

Silver, SS, Aspen, CO, 2012
11th, SS, Aspen, CO, 2016

 

AFP Rankings

16th, Overall, 2015

1st, SS, 2014

1st, SS, 2013

2nd, SS, 2012

17th, SS, 2011

FIS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Teams: 2013

3rd, SS, Voss, NOR, 2013

 

FIS WORLD CUP

Five starts, two podiums, one win since 2012
5th, SS, Breckenridge, CO, 2014

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
5th, SS, Total Fight, AND, 2015
3rd, SS, Dew Tour, Breckenridge, CO, 2014

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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