Xu Mengtao
Xu in 2014
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born (1990-07-12) 12 July 1990 (age 33)
Anshan, Liaoning, China
EducationDoctor of Philosophy candidate
Alma materBeijing Sport University
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Life partnerWang Xindi
Sport
CountryChina
SportFreestyle skiing
EventAerials
Medal record
Women's freestyle skiing
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Beijing Aerials
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Aerials
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Mixed team aerials
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Voss Aerials
Silver medal – second place 2009 Inawashiro Aerials
Silver medal – second place 2011 Deer Valley Aerials
Silver medal – second place 2019 Utah Mixed team aerials
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Kreischberg Aerials
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Sierra Nevada Aerials
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Utah Aerials
Xu Mengtao
Simplified Chinese徐梦桃
Traditional Chinese徐夢桃

Xu Mengtao (Chinese: 徐梦桃; pinyin: Xú Mèngtáo; Mandarin pronunciation: [ɕy̌ mə̂ŋ tʰǎʊ]; born 12 July 1990) is an Olympic Champion Chinese aerial skier. She has 27 World Cup victories and an Olympic Gold.[1][2][3] She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31.[4] She was one of Team China's flag bearers, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.[5]

Career Results

Olympic Games

She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics,[6] where she qualified eighth, and had the highest score after the first jump in the finals. However, she crashed on her second jump and ended up in sixth place.[7]

Xu brought home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics with a score of 83.50 in the Ladies Aerials finals. She had obtained a score of 101.08 in jump 2 of Final 1, the highest score in the finals, but fell in Final 2.[8]

In the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Xu obtained a score of 91 in the first jump, placing her in second place, but crashed in the second jump and did not advance, ending up in 9th overall.

In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Xu won a silver in the mixed team aerials, and also won a gold medal in the Women's Aerial Ski with a final score of 108.61, after landing a jump with three somersaults, edging out defending champion Hanna Huskova with an impressive score of 107.95 and Ashley Caldwell, who had the highest score in Final 1. In doing so, she became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in this event, after five previous silvers by Chinese athletes since the event was added in 1994.[9][10][11][12]

Xu (top) and Gao (bottom) as flag bearers for the closing ceremony
Year Location Result
2010 Canada Vancouver 6th Aerials
2014 Russia Sochi Silver Aerials
2018 South Korea Pyeongchang 9th Aerials
2022 China Beijing Gold Aerials

World Championships

Year Location Result
2009 Japan Inawashiro Silver Aerials
2011 United States Deer Valley Silver Aerials
2013 Norway Voss Gold Aerials
2015 Austria Kreischberg Bronze Aerials
2017 Spain Sierra Nevada Bronze Aerials
2019 United States Park City Bronze Aerials

World Cup

Standings

Season Aerials
2006/07 16
2008/09 4
2009/10 Bronze
2010/11 Silver
2011/12 Gold
2012/13 Gold
2013/14 Bronze
2014/15 6
2015/16 27
2016/17 Gold
2017/18 Gold
2018/19 Gold
2019/20 Silver

Individual wins

Date Location
14 February 2009 Russia Moscow
20 December 2009 China Changchun
18 December 2010 China Beidahu
16 January 2011 Canada Sainte-Adèle
20 January 2012 United States Lake Placid
21 January 2012 United States Lake Placid
29 January 2012 Canada Calgary
3 February 2012 United States Park City
17 March 2012 Norway Voss
5 January 2013 China Changchun
12 January 2013 Canada Saint-Côme
18 January 2013 United States Lake Placid
1 February 2013 United States Park City
17 February 2013 Russia Sochi
20 December 2014 China Beijing
21 December 2014 China Beijing
17 December 2016 China Beidahu
10 February 2017 South Korea Bongpyeong
12 January 2018 United States Park City
20 January 2018 United States Lake Placid
19 January 2019 United States Lake Placid
23 February 2019 Belarus Minsk
3 March 2019 China Changchun
21 December 2019 China Changchun
22 December 2019 China Changchun
3 December 2021 Finland Kuusamo
5 January 2022 Canada Lac-Beauport

References

  1. ^ FIS Bio Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "XU Mengtou Biography". Olympics.com. 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Canada's Marion Thénault finishes 7th in Olympic women's aerials final". ca.sports.yahoo.com. 13 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  4. ^ "Awesome Xu Mengtao takes aerials gold for China". CNA. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. ^ "Gao Tingyu, Xu Mengtao to be flag bearers of Chinese delegation at closing ceremony-Xinhua". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  6. ^ Vancouver 2010 Profile Archived 19 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Vancouver 2010 Ladies' Aerials results Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Mengtao XU". Archived from the original on 2014-01-21.
  9. ^ "Tearful Xu Mengtao takes China's Winter Games gold tally to five". 14 February 2022.
  10. ^ "OCA » China settles for silver in first mixed aerials team event". ocasia.org. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  11. ^ "Olympics Live: Austria takes gold in ski jumping team event". AP NEWS. 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  12. ^ "Skier Xu of China wins gold in women's aerials". ESPN.com. 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-02-14.

External links

Olympic Games Preceded byWu Dajing Flagbearer for  Chinaat the Olympics closing ceremony (with Gao Tingyu)Beijing 2022 Succeeded byIncumbent


Olympic champions in women's freestyle skiing
World champions in women's freestyle skiing aerials
Xinhua News Agency's Top Ten Chinese Athletes of the Year
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