Dylan Deschamps

Quebec City, Canada | Active: 2022-present World Cup | Discipline: Big Air and Slopestyle | Current: Canada World Cup Team

Chur When the Final Never Came

The takeoff tower in Chur rose above the Swiss city lights, and the October air carried the unsettled feel of a contest about to change shape. Dylan Deschamps dropped into the big air jump needing one clean answer, not a safe place in the final. He set a switch left double cork 1620 mute, held the grab through the rotation, and put the landing down for 93.66. Weather later forced the freeski finals off the program, so the qualifying sheet became the result. At 20, from Quebec City, Deschamps had his first World Cup win.

Quebec City to the World Cup Gate

Deschamps was born in Quebec City on December 12, 2002, and represents Canada in FIS freestyle skiing under code 2534790. Freestyle Canada lists his birthplace and hometown as Québec, Québec, and places him on the national team from 2022 onward. The timing matters. He had already shown usable slopestyle range, enough air awareness for big jumps, and the competition patience needed to wait through qualification days.

Team Canada’s profile says he started freestyle skiing at 13. That is late enough to make his jump progression more telling. His public biography also points to skateboarding, trampolining, and making videos outside skiing, three activities that fit how big air skiers rehearse body position before snow. It explains part of the movement vocabulary: switch takeoffs, off-axis control, delayed safety grabs, and the confidence to carry blind landings beyond a standard contest rotation.

Stoneham, Aspen, and the Nor-Am Proof

The early record shows a skier moving through North America’s proving ground without skipping the uncomfortable steps. In February 2020, Deschamps took third in Nor-Am slopestyle at Aspen/Buttermilk, a venue tied closely to X Games pressure and high-speed jump lines. Two years later at Stoneham, Quebec, he finished third in Nor-Am big air and second in Nor-Am slopestyle across the same March 2022 stop. Those results were not global medals, but they were useful markers: he could score on rails, jumps, and single-hit execution.

January 2023 sharpened that pattern. At Copper Mountain Resort, he placed fourth in Nor-Am slopestyle; five days later at WinSport Calgary, he took third in Nor-Am slopestyle. The geography tells its own story. Copper demands clean landings on a long U.S. competition course. Deschamps did not arrive at World Cup big air as a one-trick specialist. He built the contest base through slopestyle, then narrowed his most dangerous weapon toward the jump.

The Switch Left Double Cork That Won Chur

Chur 2023 became the break because the score survived both the weather and the field. Deschamps’ 93.66 led Daniel Bacher of Austria, Birk Ruud of Norway, Troy Podmilsak of the United States, and Sebastian Schjerve of Norway on the official result sheet. That set of names matters because it was not a light field. Ruud had Olympic gold in big air from Beijing 2022. Podmilsak had already been pushing the American rotation ceiling. Deschamps had to win against athletes with deeper senior results.

The trick itself explained the score. A switch left double cork 1620 mute starts backward, moves through two off-axis flips, carries four and a half rotations, then asks the skier to locate the landing late. The mute grab keeps the ski package compact, but it also exposes rushed timing if the grab comes off early. Deschamps did not win Chur with a conservative amplitude play. He won with a jump that translated junior control into World Cup risk, and judges rewarded the whole run.

Chur Again, Then Beijing Slush

The follow-up season removed the chance to call Chur a weather-shaped accident. In October 2024, Deschamps returned to Big Air Chur and finished third. Six weeks later, at the Beijing Snow Sports Center on December 1, 2024, he took another World Cup bronze with 181.0 points. Tormod Frostad won on 183.0, and Miro Tabanelli placed second on 182.25, leaving Deschamps close enough to the top that every landing detail mattered. He earned 60 World Cup points from that Beijing result.

Freestyle Canada reported that the Beijing format used the best two jumps from three attempts. Deschamps landed a strong first jump, missed his second, and had to deliver on the final pass. His post-event reaction mentioned how much fun the slush landing felt, a small detail that says more than a generic confidence quote. Soft spring-like landing zones can absorb impact, but they can also grab skis and slow rotation checks. Deschamps’ bronze came from handling that texture when the contest gave him only one remaining attempt.

Aspen’s Bio 1620 and the X Games Bronze

X Games Aspen gave Deschamps a different audience. His 2025 debut ended in seventh in men’s ski big air, yet X Games described his switch triple cork bio 1620 safety grab as the most unique rotation of that contest. The forward-diving bio position creates a different visual line than a cleaner upright triple. The landing comes blind, and the skier has to trust the axis before the horizon fully returns.

In 2026, the Aspen result finally matched the attention. Deschamps won bronze in Stake Men’s Ski Big Air, giving him his first X Games medal. The medal placed him in a contest category beyond World Cup consistency: X Games rewards risk, trick identity, and crowd-readable commitment. His history from the year before mattered there. He had attempted to push the switch triple bio toward 1800 at Aspen 2025 and crashed twice. The bronze was not a sudden reinvention; it was a cleaner expression of a line he had already been trying to claim.

Livigno’s Olympic Final Under Big Air Pressure

Milano Cortina 2026 turned the private qualification grind into an Olympic result. Deschamps reached the men’s freeski big air final in Livigno and finished seventh on February 17, 2026. The number sits below the podium, but it places him inside the Olympic final cut in a discipline where mistake margins are thin and trick selection is brutal. Big air asks for two different scoring jumps in final formats, so a skier cannot survive only on one direction, one grab, or one axis.

The Olympic context also changed the comparison group. Deschamps was not only measuring against Canadian teammates or Nor-Am graduates; he was landing against athletes shaped by Norwegian, Italian, French, American, and New Zealand systems. His seventh place came after a World Cup cycle that had already included Chur, Beijing, Aspen, and Secret Garden. For a skier who entered World Cup events in 2022, the distance from first senior starts to Olympic final was short, but the result pattern behind it was not thin.

How Deschamps Builds Bio Rotation

Deschamps’ contest identity starts with switch direction and off-axis commitment. The switch triple cork bio 1620 safety is not simply a bigger number than the switch left double cork 1620 mute from Chur. It changes the way the body presents to the judges and to the landing. A double cork keeps more of the classic big air rhythm: load, release, spot, absorb. The bio version dives the chest forward, stretches the rotation into a less familiar visual plane, and delays certainty until late.

That makes his skiing easy to separate from riders who build scores through symmetry alone. Birk Ruud often pairs technical variety with polished landing posture. Troy Podmilsak has used American big air power and high-degree rotations to pressure the field. Deschamps’ lane is more idiosyncratic: a rotation that looks slightly dangerous even before the ski edges touch down. The risk is real. Blind landings punish small timing errors, and bio-axis tricks can drift if the takeoff is not square. His best scores arrive when the movement stays wild without becoming loose.

Atomic, Oakley, D-Structure, and the Canada Support

Freestyle Canada’s current athlete page lists D-Structure, Atomic Skis, and Oakley as Deschamps’ sponsors. Atomic gives the contest-ski side of the setup, Oakley covers eyewear, and D-Structure ties him to a Quebec retail and freeski culture base. The combination fits an athlete who is both national-team supported and still visibly connected to the Canadian scene that developed him.

The same profile lists him as a World Cup slopestyle/big air athlete, not a pure big air-only entry. That matters for preparation. Slopestyle training builds rail takeoffs, course speed management, and varied jump rhythm, while big air isolates the highest-risk trick package. His Nor-Am history shows both disciplines, and his World Cup record now tilts toward big air because the podiums have come there. The support structure around him appears built for that split: enough all-around skiing to keep options open, enough big air focus to chase finals.

Tignes 2026 on the Results Sheet

After the Olympic final, Deschamps did not disappear from the results. FIS lists him fifth in the Tignes World Cup big air on March 20, 2026, after qualifying sixth two days earlier. That result came one month after Livigno and kept him in the same competitive lane: final-level big air and a field fresh from the Olympic season. It also gives his page a concrete current endpoint rather than a vague future line.

The working picture is now clear. Deschamps is a Quebec City skier, a Canadian national-team athlete since 2022, a World Cup winner, a four-time World Cup big air podium finisher, an X Games bronze medalist, and an Olympic finalist. His next public chapter will be measured the same way the last one was measured: on official score sheets, against Podmilsak, Frostad, Ruud, Tabanelli, Harrington, and the rest of a big air field where originality only counts when the landing holds.