Alex Bellemare
Profile and significance Alex Bellemare is a Canadian freeski slopestyle and big air specialist from Saint-Boniface, Québec, who bridged the contest era of the 2010s with the film-driven energy that followed. Born in 1993, he earned a career-defining bronze medal in men’s ski slopestyle at X Games Aspen 2015 and represented Canada at PyeongChang 2018. Earlier breakthroughs included a first World Cup podium at California’s Mammoth Mountain in 2012, followed by a World Cup victory at the Olympic test event hosted at Phoenix Pyeongchang in 2016 and a World Cup bronze at Font-Romeu in 2017.... Read more on the Athlete page
Dylan Deschamps
Profile and significance Dylan Deschamps is a Canadian freeski slopestyle and big air rider from Québec City, born in 2002, who has rapidly converted junior promise into senior-level hardware. After joining Canada’s national setup in 2022, he announced himself on the world stage with a breakthrough World Cup Big Air victory at Chur in October 2023, then backed it up with additional World Cup Big Air podiums at the same Chur city event and at Beijing’s Shougang venue during the 2024–25 season. He also stepped onto the X Games stage in Aspen in January 2025, a sign of the regard he now commands among selectors.... Read more on the Athlete page
Édouard Thériault - Edjoy
Profile and significance Édouard “Edjoy” Therriault is a Canadian freeski original from Lorraine, Québec, born in 2003, whose blend of creativity and big-ticket execution made him a fixture on World Cup broadcasts and a cult favorite in modern park skiing. After grabbing global attention with big air silver at the 2021 World Championships in Aspen, he added World Cup podiums in both slopestyle and big air, a start at the Olympic Winter Games, and multiple appearances at the X Games. In June 2025, still only 22, he announced he was stepping away from the World Cup start gate to pursue film-forward, art-driven skiing—leaning into the same “frequenski” ethos that has always set him apart.... Read more on the Athlete page
Ferdinand Dahl
Profile and significance Ferdinand “Ferdi” Dahl is a Norwegian freeski original whose blend of contest pedigree and culture-building has made him one of the most influential park and street skiers of his generation. Born in 1998 and raised around Oslo, he broke through on the biggest stages with multiple medals at the X Games—slopestyle bronze in 2019, slopestyle silver in 2021, and slopestyle bronze again in 2023—while stacking nine FIS World Cup podiums and two Olympic appearances, including an eighth place in slopestyle at PyeongChang 2018. Those results alone would secure his status.... Read more on the Athlete page
Jérémy Gagné
Profile and significance Jérémy Gagné is an emerging Canadian freeski rider from Stoneham, Québec, working his way from national circuits to regular World Cup starts in slopestyle and big air. A graduate of the Stoneham Acrobatic Ski Club, he joined Freestyle Canada’s NextGen group in 2023 and quickly converted junior promise into senior-level consistency. In 2023 he closed out the domestic season as overall Toyo Canada Cup freestyle champion, then carried that momentum onto bigger stages with top-16 World Cup finishes the next winter.... Read more on the Athlete page
Kim Lamarre
Lac-Beauport / Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | Active: 2009-2019 | Known for: Sochi 2014 Olympic bronze, repeated ACL comebacks, early Canadian women’s slopestyle progression | Current: FIS-listed not active after later competing independently outside the main Canadian team structure Sochi did not begin with a medal run. It began with a mistake. Kim Lamarre crashed on her first trip through the women’s Olympic slopestyle final at Rosa Khutor in February 2014.... Read more on the Athlete page
Mat Dufresne
Profile and significance Mat Dufresne—often credited as Mathieu “Mat” Dufresne—is a Quebec street and park skier whose profile has grown through short films and rider-led sessions more than traditional ranking sheets. Based around Montréal and the Laurentians, he broke out internationally by winning Level 1’s SuperUnknown XIX in 2022, a milestone that signaled to the wider freeski world that his blend of rail precision, creative spot choice, and effortless style belonged on the global stage. Since then, he has doubled down on street projects including MTL, MTL 2, and the 2024 short “Word to the Wise,” while stepping into high-visibility jam formats like Dew Tour Streetstyle.... Read more on the Athlete page
Olivia Asselin
Profile and significance Olivia Asselin is a Canadian freeski standout from Québec who blends film-ready style with contest composure. Born in 2004 and raised in the Québec City/Lévis corridor, she rose through Stoneham’s club scene to the national team and broke out internationally with a bronze medal in Women’s Ski Big Air at the X Games in 2022. She followed that with Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck gold in 2024 and, in 2025, a defining weekend at Aspen that delivered Women’s Ski Street Style gold and Slopestyle silver.... Read more on the Athlete page
Phil Boily-Doucet
Profile and significance Philippe “Phil” Boily-Doucet is a Quebec freeski rider from the Montréal/Laurentians scene whose lane blends credible contest experience with a film-first, street-driven output. Born in 2000, he surfaced through tightly cut edits and small-crew projects before stepping into bigger urban films alongside leading Quebec riders. In 2018 he logged a World Cup appearance at the downtown Québec City Big Air, finishing 16th in front of a skyline crowd, and the same season added Nor-Am starts that sharpened his timing under pressure.... Read more on the Athlete page
Philip Casabon - B-Dog
Profile and significance Philip “B-Dog” Casabon is a Canadian freeski icon from Shawinigan, Québec, whose style-first language—presses, butters, nollies, reverts, and shiftys that breathe—reshaped modern park and urban skiing. He rose through night laps at his local hill, Vallée du Parc, and became one of the most influential riders of his generation by proving that creativity, definition, and flow can outweigh brute force. His cultural footprint is matched by hardware: back-to-back gold medals at X Games Real Ski in 2018 and 2019, plus the 2018 Fan Favorite nod, cemented his status as a peer-elected standard.... Read more on the Athlete page
Rudy Lépine
Profile and significance Rudy Lépine is a Québec-born freeski rider and filmmaker whose urban/street skiing and calm, precise movement have made him a reference for edits-first progression. After early years in the Laurentians, he based himself in British Columbia around Whistler Blackcomb, where steady filming blocks shaped a catalog of replayable parts. Lépine’s profile surged with “PSYCHOACTIV” (2022), a rider-led project he directed and co-edited, and “Delirium” (2024), a joint release with Level 1 that stitched together Canadian cityscapes into a single street statement.... Read more on the Athlete page
Thomas Galarneau
Profile and significance Thomas “Tom” Galarneau is a Canadian freeski rider from Saint-Sauveur, Québec, who blends contest chops with an edits-first, street-friendly outlook. A graduate of the Ski Acro Québec slopestyle program, he broke onto broader radars with Nor-Am starts and a string of film and community projects, including a solo street part titled “Metamorphosis” and back-to-back SuperUnknown semi-finalist nods. Recently welcomed to the Surface Skis team, he’s part of a new Québec wave that treats parks and streets as the same classroom—calm approaches, patient pop, and clips that read clearly at half speed.... Read more on the Athlete page
Vince Prévost
Profile and significance Vince (Vincent) Prévost is a Québec freeski rider from the Laurentians whose strongest footprint is in street and night-park culture. Active since the early 2010s, he showed up in Montréal’s film scene via crews like Brotherhood/ESK and made noise with a run of contest-clip crossovers that mirrored the province’s urban DNA. His breakthrough for many viewers was a win at Sommet Saint-Sauveur’s community-driven park challenge in 2015, followed by a local-to-global moment the next winter when he earned a wildcard invite to a downtown Québec City urban showcase backed by Red Bull.... Read more on the Athlete page
Vincent Gagnier
Profile and significance Vincent Gagnier—known across freeskiing as “Vinny Cash”—is a Canadian style authority and trick innovator from Victoriaville, Québec. A Big Air Olympic cycle never defined him; X Games and rider-driven projects did. His signature moment came at Aspen in January 2015, when he won Ski Big Air under the lights at Buttermilk/Aspen Snowmass, outscoring Bobby Brown and Elias Ambühl with spin-and-grab combinations that favored originality over brute rotation.... Read more on the Athlete page