Édouard Therriault - Big Air CAN

Lorraine, Quebec, Canada | Active: FIS status active; World Cup step-back announced June 2025 | Discipline: freeski big air, slopestyle, rails, creative filming | Verified: 2021 World Championships big air silver, 2019 Junior Worlds slopestyle gold, Beijing 2022 Olympian, World Cup podiums | Current: Edjoy creative ski path

Aspen When The Headstand Said Everything

The Buttermilk big-air jump sat under Colorado floodlights, with the landing glazed by heavy impacts and the crowd waiting for scores. Édouard Therriault had kicked a ski on takeoff, still completed the trick, then fell through the landing with the kind of chaos that made people keep watching.

At X Games Aspen 2022, his rookie appearance did not end with a medal, but it gave Edjoy a clear international image. X Games later described him moving into the lead after his fourth jump and waiting for the score while holding a tweaked-out headstand. That detail matters. Therriault was not presented as a standard contest robot. He looked like a skier treating Big Air as performance, joke, risk, art, and competition at the same time.

Lorraine Roots And Tremblant First Tracks

Therriault was born on February 16, 2003, in Lorraine, Quebec. Team Canada lists Lorraine as his birthplace, while BUG Visionaries places his residence in Lorraine in the Lower Laurentians. Tremblant’s athlete ambassador page gives the childhood texture: first ski memories at Tremblant, skiing at age two, then the first backflip and double flip before the competitive pathway fully formed.

The Quebec base is important because Edjoy’s skiing does not feel detached from local freestyle culture. D-Structure, Tremblant, Ski Acro Québec, and the Laurentians sit behind the profile. The route was not only national-team selection. It moved through clubs, friends, park laps, filming habits, and a region where rail skiing, mogul history, and creative urban influence can overlap during the same winter.

Quebec City To The Junior World Title

The first official senior marker came at Quebec City in March 2019, where Therriault made his World Cup debut in Big Air. Soon after, he competed at the 2019 FIS Junior World Championships and won slopestyle gold, a first for Canada according to Team Canada and Tremblant.

That junior title shaped the early reading of his career. He was not only a style skier with loose grabs and creative edits. He had already delivered under a formal FIS structure, inside a discipline that demands rails, jumps, speed management, switch takeoffs, and clean landings across a full course. Freestyle Canada later referenced that junior world title as the moment he first stood out internationally before joining the World Cup team full-time in 2019-20.

Aspen 2021 And The Switch Double Bio

The clearest competitive peak arrived at the 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Aspen/Snowmass. Therriault won silver in men’s freeski big air with a total of 183.00, behind Sweden’s Oliwer Magnusson and ahead of Switzerland’s Kim Gubser.

Team Canada records the decisive third run: a switch double bio 1800 safety grab that scored 93.50, the second-highest single score of the day. X Games also lists the World Championships silver and identifies his Big Air trick package around double bio 1800 safety and forward triple 1620 guitar grab. The result was Canada’s best world championship result in men’s ski big air at that time, and it came before Therriault had earned a World Cup podium.

Font-Romeu In Packed Snow And Sun

His first World Cup podium came in January 2022 at Font-Romeu, France. The official FIS result placed Andri Ragettli first, Ben Barclay second, and Therriault third with 81.71. The FIS report recorded sunny weather, packed snow, air around -2°C, and snow around -4°C, which gives the podium a useful physical setting rather than a dry line in a database.

Downdays documented the run language: rightside double 1260 mute, switch left double bio 1260 truck, left double cork 1260 tail, plus rail work including switch on, front cork 450 safety out, frontside 360 swap continuing 270 out, and switch right 270 on to switch. That sequence captures Edjoy’s balance. The jump line had enough technical weight for FIS scoring, while the rails already carried the playful, skateboard-influenced movement that would later define his creative direction.

Beijing With Two Thirteenths

Therriault’s Olympic debut came at Beijing 2022. Team Canada lists him thirteenth in men’s freeski big air and thirteenth in men’s freeski slopestyle, one place short of qualifying for the final in both events. Big Air Shougang gave him the industrial backdrop: steel ramp, cooling towers, hard winter light, and a format where every jump was exposed.

The results were frustrating because they showed how close he was to the final without giving him Olympic footage inside the medal round. In slopestyle, Genting Snow Park demanded full-course control through rails and jumps. In Big Air, the margin was smaller and more brutal. For a young Canadian with a World Championships silver already on record, Beijing became a near-miss chapter rather than the peak of the story.

Beijing 2023 Against Hall And Ragettli

The post-Olympic contest record still had another strong result. In December 2023 at the Beijing Big Air World Cup, FIS listed Alex Hall first with 182.00, Therriault second with 181.75, and Andri Ragettli third with 179.75. The podium was tight enough to show how thin the line had become at the top of men’s Big Air.

That result matters because Hall and Ragettli represent two different standards of modern freeskiing: Hall’s creative trick construction and Ragettli’s polished Swiss precision. Therriault landing between them placed him in a serious scoring conversation, not only a personality category. His skiing could still meet the arithmetic of Big Air: rotation, grab, landing, trick variety, and pressure under a city-ramp format.

Edjoy’s Rails, Grabs, And Strange Angles

Therriault’s style is built around detail at the edges of tricks. X Games wrote that his grabs can rival Alex Hall’s, and that comparison is useful because both skiers make small body positions matter. Edjoy’s vocabulary includes double bio 1800s, triple 1620s, guitar grabs, safety grabs, mute grabs, truck grabs, switch 270s, front cork 450s, 360 swaps, rail transfers, and late body adjustments that make a trick feel less machine-made.

Monster Energy frames the same idea through art rather than judging. The brand describes his creative edits with homemade graffiti, live music jams, animated UFOs, jazz influence, painting, filmmaking, skateboarding, and a phrase he calls “frequenski.” That may sound loose, but it explains the skiing. He tends to treat takeoffs, rails, grabs, and edits as parts of the same visual language.

Monster, Atomic, Capeesh, And The Quebec Support Thread

Monster Energy currently presents Therriault as a Canadian ski athlete from Lorraine, Quebec, and places Edjoy’s identity around creative freeskiing, jazz, painting, filmmaking, travel, and skateboard-inspired movement. BUG Visionaries lists Monster, Atomic, Capeesh, and D-Structure among his sponsors, with skateboarding and outdoor sports as hobbies.

The sponsor picture should be read with time in mind. Monster gives him a visible action-sports platform. Atomic connects to the ski equipment side, while Capeesh fits the modern freeski style economy more than a traditional federation image. D-Structure gives the Montreal/Quebec shop-culture connection, important for a skier whose creative identity is close to local scenes, art, and street influence.

Edjoy The Movie And The Creative Exit

Team Canada records that Therriault presented Edjoy: The Movie at iF3 Movie Awards and High Five Festival in 2021. That fact is central to the page because it shows the creative path existed before the World Cup step-back. He was not suddenly becoming artistic after competition slowed down. The film impulse was already inside the athlete profile.

On June 2, 2025, Freestyle Canada announced that Edjoy was stepping away from World Cup slopestyle and Big Air to explore new creative paths in skiing. The announcement said he planned to remain active through filming, backcountry lines, and innovation in the rail scene, while also returning to university in the fall. That makes his current profile unusual: FIS still lists him active, but his national-team direction is no longer a standard World Cup chase.

The Path Beyond The Start Gate

Therriault should not be framed as a finished legend or as a rider without results. The accurate position is sharper: World Championships silver medalist, Junior World Champion, Olympian, World Cup podium skier, X Games finalist, and a creative skier choosing to leave the strictest contest lane at twenty-two.

For skipowd.tv, the watch path is clear: Tremblant roots for the origin, Junior Worlds 2019 for the Canadian first, Aspen 2021 for the Big Air silver, Font-Romeu 2022 for the first World Cup podium, Beijing 2022 for the Olympic near-finals, Aspen X Games 2022 for the Edjoy personality, Beijing Big Air 2023 for the Hall/Ragettli podium, and Edjoy: The Movie for the direction that now matters most. The next reliable chapter is not another start list. It is rails, filming, backcountry lines, university, and whatever shape Edjoy gives skiing when the score stops leading the edit.