At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver Alex Bilodeau became the first Canadian ever to win Olympic gold on home soil. One day earlier Jenn Heil came oh so close capturing silver.
Canada won the "Nations Cup" emblematic of the top team on the FIS World Cup circuit for the seventh time in eight years in 2009-2010.
At the 2009 FIS World Championships Canadians again put on an incredible show winning seven medals including a gold in dual moguls by Alex Bilodeau.
Steve Omischl had an incredible 2007/08 season winning six of nine aerial competitions, earning the FIS World Cup crown in both Aerials and Overall.
At the 2007 FIS World Championships Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau and Kristi Richards won in single moguls and Jenn Heil won the dual moguls title.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy Jenn Heil won the gold medal in women's moguls.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Veronica Brenner won silver and Deidra Dionne won bronze in women's Aerials. Canada also had six other top-ten finishes, including a fourth by Jeff Bean in men's aerials and a fourth by Jenn Heil in women's moguls (missing a medal by 1/100 of a point).
At the 2001 World Championships, Canada won five medals including gold by Veronika Bauer in Aerials.
Nicolas Fontaine won an unprecedented four consecutive World Cup titles from 1996/97 through 1999/2000 making him the unquestioned leader of the Aerials team before retiring at the end of the 2002 season.
Jenn Heil won four consecutive women's moguls World Cup titles before taking the 2007/08 season off.
Canada's best World Championship medal count came in 1997 at Nagano, Japan with seven medals out of a possible 21.
Canada's previous best World Championship medal count was in 1989 with six medals in Oberjoch, Germany.
While being shut out of the medals in the 1998 Olympics in Japan, Canada had some impressive results including fourth, seventh and eighth in men's moguls (Brassard, Johnson and Rochon) and fifth in women's moguls (Ann Marie Pelchat).
Jean-Luc Brassard won the first Olympic Gold medal by a Canadian male skier at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics in Moguls; at the same Olympics Philippe LaRoche won silver and Lloyd Langlois bronze in men's Aerials.
In 1988 at Freestyle's Olympic debut as a demonstration sport in Calgary, legendary aerialist Jean-Marc Rozon won gold and the equally legendary Lloyd Langlois won a bronze medal in Aerials.
One of Rozon's students, Nicolas Fontaine won silver, and Philippe LaRoche won gold in the 1992 Olympics at Albertville when Aerials again appeared as a demonstration event.
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