Jon Olsson

Jon Olsson

Jon Olsson is one of the world's best known freeskiers and also a alpine ski racer. He was born and raised in Sweden, but now lives in Monaco. Jon is on Head's new school free ski team [http://www2.head.com/ski/worlds.php?region=us&tag=freeskier&id=19] Head also manufacture his pro model ski which features graphics of beautiful models every year of its production.

One of Jon's biggest accomplishments has been his invention of several new double flips, which are two separate flips during one air. These include a D-spin 720 into a flatspin 540 (DJ Flip), a switch double rodeo 1080 (Hexo Flip), and his most famous one being a double flatspin 900 (Kangaroo Flip) which he used to win Gold in the Big Air at Winter X Games 08 and at Jon Olsson Invitational 2006.

Tanner Hall and Jon Olsson are the only people to hit Chad's Gap switch. Jon landed a switch 5 and attempted two switch misty 900s.

Some of Jon's sponsors include Head, POC helmets, Red Bull, Oakley, Swix, Kombi, Cross and Tyrolia.

Jon documents his competitions on his [http://www.jon-olsson.com/videoblog videoblog] [http://www.jon-olsson.com/videoblog]

Competions

He holds ten Winter X-Games medals. For the last three years he has run his own competition the "Jon Olsson Invitational' 'held in Åre, Sweden. He has also won many other events including Big Air at Winter X-Games 08 [ [http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3214745 EXPN.com: - January Madness - Expn ] ] , The US Free Skiing Open in Vail, The Red Bull Big Air in Åre, Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships in Riksgränsen and the World Superpipe Championships in Whistler BC. In 2008, Jon, Simon Dumont and TJ Schiller announced their involvement in a new open freeskiing event, the [http://www.OpensFreeski.com North American Open] , at Breckenridge, CO. This event includes a new format to qualify; riders will have as many runs as there is daylight to try and prove themselves in front of the judges, once a rider is approached and given a bib, they have qualified for the next level.

Results

*2008 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle, Aspen, USA
*2008 1st X-Games, Big Air, Aspen, USA
*2007 1st Icer Air, Big Air, San Francisco, USA
*2007 1st Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
*2007 1st US Freeskiing Open, Slope Style, Copper Mountain, USA
*2006 1st Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air, Åre, Sweden
*2006 1st Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
*2005 1st World Superpipe Champion, Park City, USA
*2005 4th Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air, Åre, Sweden
*2005 3rd X-Games, Superpipe, Aspen, USA
*2005 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle, Aspen, USA
*2005 3rd US Freeskiing Open, Slopestyle, Vail, USA
*2005 5th US Freeskiing Open, Big Air, Vail, USA
*2004 2nd Rip Curl, Slopestyle, Saas Fee, Switzerland
*2004 3rd Rip Curl, Halfpipe, Saas Fee, France
*2004 1st Scandinavian Championships, Big Mountain, Riksgränsen, Sweden
*2004 1st Nokia Totally Board, Big Air, Greece
*2004 1st Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
*2004 3rd US Freeskiing Open, Big Air, Vail, USA
*2004 2nd X-Games, Superpipe, Aspen, USA
*2004 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle, Aspen, USA
*2003 2nd Cape TownTotally Board, Nokia, Big Air
*2003 1st Rip Curl, Total, Saas Fee, Switzerland
*2003 1st Rip Curl, Big Air, Saas Fee, Switzerland
*2003 3rd Rip Curl, Halfpipe, Saas Fee, Switzerland
*2003 2nd Rip Curl, Slopestyle, Saas Fee, Switzerland
*2003 1st Air we go, Big Air, Oslo, Norway
*2003 2nd King of the Globe, Stockholm, Sweden
*2003 2nd Freestyle.ch, Zürich, Switzerland
*2003 1st Ski and Snowboard Festival, Big Air, Whistler, Canada
*2003 1st Ski and Rock, Slopestyle, Sälen, Sweden
*2003 1st Red Bull Big Air, Åre, Sweden
*2003 2nd US Freeskiing Open, Slopestyle, Vail, USA
*2003 4th US Freeskiing Open, Superpipe, Vail, USA
*2003 3rd X-Games, Superpipe, Aspen, USA
*2003 3rd X-Games, Slopestyle, Aspen, USA

Cars

Jon has a love of cars [ [http://www.jon-olsson.com/videoblog/?p=227 » Blog Archive » Holy shit I suck! ] ] and often promises, if he wins an event, will use prize money to purchase a new one. Probably his most famous car is his Lamborghini "ski" Gallardo a Lamborghini Gallardo fitted with a ski rack/box and with a snow camouflage paint job [ [http://www.kink.se/2008/01/07/camouflage-lamborghini-gallardo/ Camouflage Lamborghini Gallardo | KiNK.se ] ] .

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