Alex Hall

Park City, Utah, USA | Active: FIS status active | Discipline: freeski slopestyle, big air, knuckle huck, street filming | Verified: 2022 Olympic gold, 2026 Olympic silver, 2024 big air Crystal Globe, 2025 slopestyle Crystal Globe | Current: 2026 U.S. Olympic Freeski Team

Livigno Flat Light With One Run Left

Livigno Snow Park sat under flat February light, the landings washed into one pale surface. Alex Hall dropped into run two, edging toward the first rail with no room for a safe line.

The defending Olympic champion had opened the Milano Cortina 2026 slopestyle final with 52.65. Birk Ruud had already put pressure on the field, Luca Harrington was waiting for his own climb, and eight of the twelve finalists had fallen in the first round. Hall answered with 85.75, enough for silver behind Ruud’s 86.28 and ahead of Harrington’s 85.15. U.S. Ski & Snowboard reported that Hall called the rail section the hardest he had done in competition. The score did not repeat Beijing gold, but it extended a four-year Olympic arc from invention in Zhangjiakou to survival under cloudy Italian light.

Beijing And The Pullback That Changed The Run

At Genting Snow Park in February 2022, Hall won Olympic slopestyle gold with a first run scored 90.01. Nick Goepper took silver with 86.48 and Jesper Tjäder earned bronze with 85.35. The U.S. went one-two, but the defining detail was Hall’s final jump.

He began a right double cork 1080, then stopped the rotation and brought it back into a 900. NBC Olympics described the move as a mid-air “pretzel,” while U.S. Ski & Snowboard later called it a pull back. In judging terms, it was not only spin count. It was control against expectation. Hall showed that slopestyle difficulty could come from interruption, shape, and direction change, not only from adding another 180 degrees.

That run became his contest signature because it looked like a film decision inside an Olympic final. It was scored by judges, built for a course, and still carried the looseness of street skiing.

Gold, Silver, Globes, And The X Games Spread

Hall’s résumé now crosses every major freeski contest format. U.S. Ski & Snowboard lists Olympic gold in Beijing 2022, Olympic silver in Milano Cortina 2026, eighth in Beijing 2022 big air, and sixteenth in PyeongChang 2018 slopestyle. The same profile records bronze medals in slopestyle at the 2021 Aspen World Championships and the 2025 Engadin World Championships.

His World Cup record gives the competition base behind the medals: ten World Cup wins and sixteen podiums. In March 2025 at Tignes, he won the slopestyle final and secured his first slopestyle Crystal Globe. U.S. Ski & Snowboard also noted that it was his second career Globe after the 2023-24 big air title.

The X Games profile adds another layer. Hall has won gold in slopestyle, big air, knuckle huck, and Real Ski. At Aspen 2026, X Games listed him as a seven-time gold medalist and recorded a knuckle huck win plus a slopestyle bronze during the same weekend.

Alaska Birth, Zurich Edges, Park City Proof

Hall was born on September 21, 1998. U.S. Ski & Snowboard describes the path in three stops: born in Alaska, raised in Zurich, then teenage years in Park City, Utah. FIS lists him under Park City Ski and Snowboard, with FIS Code 2532249 and active status.

The Zurich years shaped the way he understood skiing before the U.S. contest system took over. X Games notes that his parents were professors at the University of Zurich and that he grew up in Switzerland before going to high school in Park City. That background gave him a different entry point from skiers raised only through U.S. resort clubs.

Park City gave him the infrastructure. The resort and club environment placed him near jumps, rails, airbags, national-team coaches, and the Utah freeski network. By the time he moved into senior events, he already carried a mix of Swiss terrain creativity and American contest structure.

From Lillehammer Silver To PyeongChang Sixteenth

Hall’s Olympic record did not begin with Beijing. At the Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games, he earned silver in ski slopestyle, a result that placed him in the international pathway before his senior Olympic debut. Two years later, he reached PyeongChang 2018 and finished sixteenth in slopestyle.

That PyeongChang result sits differently when viewed through the rest of the career. He was still learning how to translate a creative trick brain into Olympic scoring. The event was won by Øystein Bråten, with Nick Goepper second and Alex Beaulieu-Marchand third. Hall was outside the final fight, but he had already seen the Olympic course structure, the speed demands, and the way rail lines could decide a medal before the last jump.

The next cycle changed everything. He entered Beijing not as a young qualifier, but as a skier with World Cup wins, X Games gold, video credibility, and enough technical control to risk a pullback in the final.

How A-Hall Builds Difficulty Sideways

Hall’s skiing is built around misdirection. He uses switch takeoffs, pretzel exits, transfer rails, tail butters, nose butters, double corks, triple rotations, leftside and rightside spins, and grabs that change the reading of the trick. The result is a run that can feel less linear than a normal slopestyle scorecard.

The 2025 Engadin World Championships showed that pattern in a rail section. U.S. Ski & Snowboard reported Hall using a switch right tails on, tails over transfer, blind 450 out. He was also the only athlete in that field using the transition feature progressively enough to get two hits from it.

In Tignes 2025, his winning World Cup slopestyle run included two rail sections: right 270 Tokyo drift to right switch lip, back 450, and swift left Tokyo drift 270 on, back 810. Those are not filler moves. They are judging arguments before the jumps. Hall often wins by making the top of the course as memorable as the final booter.

Buttermilk Knuckles And Four X Games Disciplines

X Games has been a second map of Hall’s career. In Aspen 2019, he won men’s ski slopestyle. At X Games Norway 2019, he won big air. In Norway 2020, he added knuckle huck gold. In 2021, he won Real Ski with filmer Etienne Mérel, moving from stadium format into street-video judging.

The discipline spread matters. Slopestyle rewards complete-course construction. Big air rewards one-jump risk, rotation direction, and landing control. Knuckle huck rewards trick shape off the rollover of a big air jump, where butter mechanics and creativity matter more than pure height. Real Ski requires urban spots, camera decisions, impact management, and editing rhythm.

At Aspen 2026, X Games reported that Hall became the first skier to win three knuckle huck titles. His winning tricks included a switch right tail butter rodeo safety and a nose grab before a butter left 900 nose grab. Those moves belong to a skier who treats the knuckle as a small terrain park, not as the leftover part of the jump.

Mammoth, Tignes, And The Crystal Globe Seasons

The World Cup part of Hall’s career has become stronger with age. His wins stretch across Silvaplana, Font-Romeu, Modena, Atlanta, Mammoth Mountain, Beijing, Tignes, and Aspen. That range covers classic European slopestyle, city big air, U.S. Grand Prix courses, and Olympic-cycle pressure.

In 2023-24, he won the big air Crystal Globe. In 2024-25, he answered with the slopestyle Crystal Globe after the Tignes victory. U.S. Ski & Snowboard described the 2025 Tignes slopestyle final as a U.S. team-heavy event, with Hall on top, Andri Ragettli second, and Sebastian Schjerve third.

Tignes is a useful place to measure him. The French Alps venue often produces variable spring light, hard morning snow, and landings that change through the day. Winning there requires more than a planned run. It requires edge timing, speed checks, and confidence through rails that can feel different each lap.

MAGMA Between Contests

Hall’s contest record does not explain the whole skier. MAGMA, built with Hunter Hess and Owen Dahlberg, gives the other half. The first MAGMA project was filmed around Mt. Hood, with Newschoolers describing it as a ski movie made for the love of skiing, filmed in a month with shots from Mt. Hood, Mt. Bachelor, and South Sister.

iF3 lists MAGMA 3 as a continuation of MAGMA and MAGMA 2, featuring Alex Hall, Hunter Hess, and Owen Dahlberg. The project is described as a mixture of urban and sidecountry, using natural features with hand-built aspects. That context explains why Hall’s slopestyle runs often look different from standard contest skiing. He spends time outside the tape, building takeoffs, reading street rails, and filming tricks where judging panels are replaced by camera angles.

Faction’s coverage of The Collective placed him in four of seven segments, from Helsinki streets to British Columbia pillows, a Norway park booter, and La Clusaz freestyle terrain. Those locations show the range: ice-cold urban rails, coastal powder, shaped jumps, and French park flow.

Faction, Monster, And The Studio 1 Thread

Hall’s sponsor picture is tied closely to equipment that supports both competitions and film trips. Faction lists him as a Park City athlete, Olympic slopestyle gold medalist, first skier to land a 2160 in competition, and part of MAGMA film production. The same profile connects him to the Studio 1 A-Hall ski.

Monster Energy presents him as a skier with X Games gold medals in big air, slopestyle, knuckle huck, and Real Ski. That wording matches the athlete more accurately than a single discipline label. Hall is not only a slopestyle specialist, even though the Olympic medals sit there.

His gear has to survive several worlds. A slopestyle course demands pop, edge grip, and stability on switch landings. Street filming demands durability on rails, stairs, wallrides, and uneven takeoffs. Sidecountry jump sessions demand float, speed control, and landings that are never as smooth as resort snowcat work.

Active Status After The Olympic Silver

As of the current FIS record, Hall remains active. U.S. Ski & Snowboard lists him on the 2026 U.S. Olympic Freeski Team and marks ten years on the team since 2017. His 2026 Olympic record now includes slopestyle silver at Livigno and big air qualification outside the final.

For skipowd.tv, the viewing path should start with Beijing 2022 for the pullback, move to X Games Aspen 2022 for the 2160 in big air, then watch Real Ski 2021 for the street vocabulary. After that, MAGMA 3 shows the hand-built sidecountry and urban mix, while Livigno 2026 shows the current competitive version: older, still active, and still building the hardest part of the run before the first jump is finished.