Noah Bowman

Noah Bowman is an elite freestyle skier and halfpipe specialist from Calgary, Canada, with the major championship medals to prove it. Noah Bowman got his start as a skier at the age of 14, when he started going to the Canada Olympic Park, near his home in Calgary, Alberta. Noah started competing in freeskiing contests, but he never thought he'd have a chance to compete at the Games. But that dream came true in 2011, when ski halfpipe was added as one of the event's official sports. In 2012, Bowman was invited as an alternate for superpipe to the X Games in Aspen, Colorado, and when a spot opened up in the contest, he stepped up to the challenge. He earned a silver medal at his rookie X Games appearance that year, with help from a Switch Alley-oop Double 900, the first time that trick had been thrown in competition. More success followed at Winter X Games 2017. On an icy night in the pipe, Bowman put together two flawless runs and left Aspen with a bronze medal and a new-found competition confidence. Two years later, at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019 in Utah, USA, Bowman took the bronze medal in the halfpipe. Now a key member of the Canadian halfpipe team, Bowman competed at both Sochi and Pyeongchang. "The Games were never a huge goal of mine," he says. "But now they've become one of my top priorities."