David Wise (freestyle skier)
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | David Wise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Reno, Nevada | June 30, 1990||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft (183 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best | Gold medals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | winter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | gold | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 3 May 2019. |
David Wise (born June 30, 1990) is an American freestyle skier. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2014, 2018) and a five-time X Games Gold Medalist (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2023). In 2014, Wise won his third consecutive gold medal at Winter X Games XVIII in Aspen, Colorado, before heading to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. There, he became the first Olympic gold medalist in the Men's Freeski Halfpipe, which debuted in the Winter Games that year. In 2018, after struggling both personally and professionally since his win in Sochi, Wise won his fourth gold medal at the X Games just before he left for PyeongChang to defend his Olympic title. After a sub-par qualifying competition that placed him in the fifth drop-in position for the finals, Wise failed to complete each of his first two runs due, in both cases, to a binding malfunction. On his third and final run, Wise completed a career-best run to take the gold medal, the second Olympic gold medal of his career, with a score of 97.20.[2]
Personal life
Wise grew up in
In 2011, he married his girlfriend, Alexandra. The couple has two children: a daughter, Nayeli,[3] and a son, Malachi.
Wise is a Christian. He has said, "Skiing for me has always been my act of worship to God, and as long it continues to be, I will keep on skiing. I don’t treat my sport as something that’s meant to glorify me; I try my best to treat it as something that brings glory to God."[4]
References
- United States Olympic Committee. Archived from the originalon January 28, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "David Wise – X Games". Espn.go.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ Ackerman, Jon. "American David Wise defends Olympic ski halfpipe gold medal with clutch final run". Sports Spectrum. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
External links
- David Wise at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- David Wise at U.S. Ski & Snowboard
- David Wise at Team USA (archive June 8, 2023)
- David Wise at the X Games (archive)
- David Wise at Olympics.com
- David Wise at Olympedia
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived October 2, 2013)