Eric Bergoust
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| Born | August 27, 1969 (age 56) Missoula, Montana, U.S. |
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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.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Profile: "Eric Bergoust" Archived August 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 8, 2008)
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External links
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Categories:
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in freestyle skiing
- Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic freestyle skiers for the United States
- American male freestyle skiers
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- People from Missoula, Montana
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- American freestyle skiing biography stubs