Noah Viande - Chicken Sawce
Hometown: Alpe d'Huez, France | Born: 2001 | Active: 2022-present | Known for: Olympic Winter Games 2026, French slopestyle title in 2025, Banshee Ken | Sponsors: Faction Skis | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air
In September 2025, Noah Viande skied Geiloparken in Norway for Banshee Ken, his introduction to the Faction global team. The edit puts his rail skiing at the centre: a switch cork 630 into a back 270 and consecutive 360 swaps into a front 270 are among the tricks identified from the session. Viande had grown up in Alpe d'Huez riding a PVC setup in his parents' garden, and the Norwegian project carried that rail-focused background into a purpose-built park with Robin Gerbelot behind the camera.
Leysin 2023: European Cup breakthrough
Viande's international FIS record gained momentum during the 2022/23 winter. At Leysin on 28 January 2023, he won a FIS slopestyle event before moving into European Cup big air starts at La Clusaz, Davos and Alpe d'Huez. Davos produced sixth place and Alpe d'Huez fourth. The sequence established both slopestyle and big air in his competition calendar before his first senior World Cup start later that season.
Tignes 2023: World Cup debut arrives
On 18 March 2023, Viande made his World Cup debut in Tignes slopestyle, finishing 34th. The French stop came after his European Cup results at Davos and Alpe d'Huez and before an 18th-place big air finish at Stubai in April. His FIS affiliation remained the Ski Club de l'Alpe d'Huez, the resort where his park skiing had developed before the move onto the international circuit.
Font-Romeu 2024: big air win and slopestyle podium
Font-Romeu gave Viande two European Cup results in March 2024. He finished third in slopestyle on 5 March and won the big air two days later. The big air victory was followed by World Cup starts at Tignes and Silvaplana: 24th in Tignes slopestyle became his strongest World Cup result of that season. He closed the French championships at Val Thorens with fourth place in slopestyle and 12th in big air.
Vars 2025: French title before Engadin
Viande won the French senior slopestyle championship at Vars on 5 March 2025. Earlier in the winter he had finished second in the Prato Nevoso European Cup slopestyle and entered World Cups at Chur, Laax and Aspen. Later that month he travelled to Engadin for his first senior World Championships, where he placed 22nd in slopestyle and 45th in big air. The championship followed a season in which he was the only Alpe d'Huez freestyle athlete highlighted by his club during the Laax and Aspen international stretch.
Geiloparken 2025: Faction launches Banshee Ken
Faction Skis introduced Viande as a global athlete through Banshee Ken in September 2025. Robin Gerbelot directed the project at Geiloparken, and Downdays' release identifies both Geilo and Norway while detailing Viande's switch cork 630 back 270 and back-to-back 360 swaps to front 270. Faction also connected the project directly to the PVC setup he had used at home in Alpe d'Huez, tying the polished Norwegian park edit to the rail skiing he had developed before joining its international roster. :chatgpt-content-reference{index="0"}
Livigno 2026: France reaches the Olympics
Viande represented France at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno. He finished 26th in men's slopestyle on 10 February and also entered the men's big air qualification on 15 February, where the official record places him 21st in qualification; that number is not used here as an event result. His Olympic appearance came three years after his first World Cup start and while he remained part of France's Park & Pipe group. :chatgpt-content-reference{index="1"}
Alpe d'Huez 2026: French team status continues
The French Ski Federation continues to list Viande in Park & Pipe, with Grenoble as his birthplace and the Ski Club de l'Alpe d'Huez as his club. In September 2026, the Alpe d'Huez club also named him among its athletes selected for the French national team for the 2026/27 season, alongside alpine skiers Ilona Charbotel and Thomas Lardon. :chatgpt-content-reference{index="2"}
Main competition results
- 2025/26 — Olympic Winter Games, Livigno — Slopestyle — 26th
- 2024/25 — World Championships, Engadin — Big air — 45th
- 2024/25 — World Championships, Engadin — Slopestyle — 22nd
- 2024/25 — National Championships, Vars — Slopestyle — 1st
- 2024/25 — World Cup, Tignes — Slopestyle — 30th
- 2024/25 — World Cup, Aspen — Big air — 48th
- 2024/25 — World Cup, Aspen — Slopestyle — 51st
- 2024/25 — World Cup, Laax — Slopestyle — 41st
- 2024/25 — World Cup, Chur — Big air — 54th
- 2023/24 — World Cup, Silvaplana — Slopestyle — 43rd
- 2023/24 — World Cup, Tignes — Slopestyle — 24th
- 2023/24 — World Cup, Tignes — Big air — 51st
Selection of his strongest results. Not a complete competition record.
