Elias Ambuehl in Budapest © Aron Suveg/Red Bull Content Pool

Name: Elias Ambühl

Date of Birth: March 26, 1992

Nationality: Swiss

Speciality: Big Air and Slopestyle skiing

Career High: Bronze medal at the 2010 Winter X Games.

2011 Winter X Games Standing: #4 (Big Air) #6 (Slopestyle)

Fast fact: Elias was the only European in the Big Air final of the 2010 X Games and he landed a double cork 1440 for the first time in his life at just 17 years of age.

Best quote: “I had a lot of dreams. I always wanted to be good at something or other, at playing the piano or skiiing, whatever. By the time I was 15 I had tried almost everything. In football I was selected for the under-16 eastern Switzerland team and until I was 14 I did ski racing. I was really good at that too. My father was a World Cup skier and I got a little bit of that from him.”

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