Eric Bergoust

Eric Bergoust (born August 27, 1969) is an American freestyle skier. In 1998 Bergoust participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan where he won a gold medal in the freestyle ski jump (aerials).[1][2]

Eric Bergoust
Personal information
BornAugust 27, 1969 (1969-08-27) (age 50)
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Medal record
Men’s freestyle skiing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
1998 NaganoAerials
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
1999 Meiringen-HaslibergAerials
1997 Iizuna KogenAerials

Bergoust was born in Missoula, Montana.[3] He has competed in aerials at four successive Winter Olympics. In addition to the gold medal in 1998, he finished 7th in 1994, 12th in 2002, and 17th in 2006.

He is one of the five people known to have performed a quadruple flip on snow Frank Bare, Jr., Lloyd Langlois, Matt Chojnacki, Nicolas Fontaine.

References
  1. Profile: "Eric Bergoust" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 8, 2008)
  2. Tribune Staff. "125 Montana Newsmakers: Eric Bergoust". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eric Bergoust". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2015.


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