Anton Kushnir

Personal information

Born

13 October 1984 (age 32)
Krasnoarmiisk, Donetsk, Ukraine

Height

1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

71 kg (157 lb)

Sport

Club

Dynamo Minsk

Medal record

Olympic Games
Representing Belarus
	2014 Sochi	Aerials
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
	2011 Deer Valley	Aerials

Anton Syarhyeyevich Kushnir (Belarusian: Антон Сяргеевіч Кушнір, born 13 October 1984) is a Belarusian aerial skier who competed in the 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics.^[1] He has five World Cup victories.^[2] Kushnir won a bronze medal at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. He won a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, with the highest score in Olympics history.

He is of Ukrainian origin.

References

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Olympic Champions in Men's Freestyle Skiing

Men's moguls	1992: Edgar Grospiron (FRA) 1994: Jean-Luc Brassard (CAN) 1998: Jonny Moseley (USA) 2002: Janne Lahtela (FIN) 2006: Dale Begg-Smith (AUS) 2010: Alexandre Bilodeau (CAN) 2014: Alexandre Bilodeau (CAN)

Men's aerials	1994: Andreas Schönbächler (SUI) 1998: Eric Bergoust (USA) 2002: Aleš Valenta (CZE) 2006: Han Xiaopeng (CHN) 2010: Aleksei Grishin (BLR) 2014: Anton Kushnir (BLR)

Men's ski cross	2010: Michael Schmid (SUI) 2014: Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (FRA)

Men's slopestyle	2014: Joss Christensen (USA)

Men's halfpipe	2014: David Wise (USA)

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