Xu Mengtao

Xu Mengtao
Xu Mengtao
Simplified Chinese	徐梦桃
Traditional Chinese	徐夢桃
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xú Mèngtáo
IPA	[ɕy̌ mə̂ŋ tʰǎʊ]

Xu Mengtao
	Xu in 2014
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	12 July 1990 (age 34); Anshan, Liaoning, China
Education	Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Alma mater	Beijing Sport University
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Life partner	Wang Xindi
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Freestyle skiing
Event	Aerials
Medal record
Women's freestyle skiing
Representing China
Olympic Games
World Championships

Xu Mengtao (Chinese: 徐梦桃; pinyin: Xú Mèngtáo; Mandarin pronunciation: [ɕy̌ mə̂ŋ tʰǎʊ]; born 12 July 1990) is an Olympic Champion Chinese aerial skier. She has 27 World Cup victories and an Olympic Gold.^[1]^[2]^[3] She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31.^[4] She was one of Team China's flag bearers, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.^[5]

Career Results

Olympic Games

She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics,^[6]^[7] where she qualified eighth, and had the highest score after the first jump in the finals. However, she crashed on her second jump and ended up in sixth place.^[8]

Xu brought home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics with a score of 83.50 in the Ladies Aerials finals. She had obtained a score of 101.08 in jump 2 of Final 1, the highest score in the finals, but fell in Final 2.^[9]

In the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Xu obtained a score of 91 in the first jump, placing her in second place, but crashed in the second jump and did not advance, ending up in 9th overall.

In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Xu won a silver in the mixed team aerials, and also won a gold medal in the Women's Aerial Ski with a final score of 108.61, after landing a jump with three somersaults, edging out defending champion Hanna Huskova with an impressive score of 107.95 and Ashley Caldwell, who had the highest score in Final 1. In doing so, she became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in this event, after five previous silvers by Chinese athletes since the event was added in 1994.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

Xu (top) and Gao (bottom) as flag bearers for the closing ceremony

Year	Location	Result
2010	Vancouver	6th Aerials
2014	Sochi	Aerials
2018	Pyeongchang	9th Aerials
2022	Beijing	Aerials

World Championships

Year	Location	Result
2009	Inawashiro	Aerials
2011	Deer Valley	Aerials
2013	Voss	Aerials
2015	Kreischberg	Aerials
2017	Sierra Nevada	Aerials
2019	Park City	Aerials

World Cup

Standings

Season	Aerials
2006/07	16
2008/09	4
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15	6
2015/16	27
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20

Individual wins

Date	Location
14 February 2009	Moscow
20 December 2009	Changchun
18 December 2010	Beidahu
16 January 2011	Sainte-Adèle
20 January 2012	Lake Placid
21 January 2012	Lake Placid
29 January 2012	Calgary
3 February 2012	Park City
17 March 2012	Voss
5 January 2013	Changchun
12 January 2013	Saint-Côme
18 January 2013	Lake Placid
1 February 2013	Park City
17 February 2013	Sochi
20 December 2014	Beijing
21 December 2014	Beijing
17 December 2016	Beidahu
10 February 2017	Bongpyeong
12 January 2018	Park City
20 January 2018	Lake Placid
19 January 2019	Lake Placid
23 February 2019	Minsk
3 March 2019	Changchun
21 December 2019	Changchun
22 December 2019	Changchun
3 December 2021	Kuusamo
5 January 2022	Lac-Beauport