Game ON, Canada! Second Bronze Comes with Megan Oldhams Winning The Freestyle Skiing Run
Womens FreeSki Slopestyle Winners (Left To Right: GU Ailing Eileen, Mathilde Gremaud & Megan Oldham)
(Source: Winter Olympics 2026)
Megan Oldham Wins A Second Bronze Medal For Team Canada at Milano Cortina Olympics
Winter Olympics 2026 (Milano Cortina) (Milan, Italy) (Feb 9, 2026): Megan Oldham wins in Freestyle Skiing and makes to the Olympic Podium (Livigno Snow Park - Slopestyle) for First Time Ever.
The Freeskier made to the Olympics for the Second Time, and had a wild run during the tournament with her first run being recorded as 69.76, 38.70 on second with a crash landing and by the third jump she was able to record the best score of 76.46 to find herself amongst the Top Three with a Bronze Medal. Despite, A heavy crash during her jump at the Milano Cortina 2026, she was able to snatch the Bronze Medal with 3rd Rank from Kristy Muir (Great Britain). Kristy Muir fall short of Megan Oldhams Time record by 0.39 seconds with her best run recorded as 76.05.
In 12-women final competition, she was left behind by Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) who won Third Gold for her country with Best run of 86.96 and Eileen Gu (People Republic of China) Silver with Best run of 86.58 who added the first Silver medal to China's Medal board.
Megan Oldham falls during her second run in Women’s Freeski Slopestyle Finals at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy. (Photo Credit: Darren Calabrese/COC)
Olympic Canada Article (by Paula Nichols) describes Oldham as, "Oldham was smoother on the opening rail section, showing her great technical skiing. She then did back-to-back double cork 1260s and finished off with clean 900 tail grab." During her interview Megan Oldham says, "It’s really hard to reset after you have a crash like that and also just trying to think strategy-wise what run I was going to do, I’m happy I was able to collect myself."
The athlete after receiving her Career's First Bronze medal expresses, "I feel amazing. I’ve been dreaming of this moment for so long, This is really what I was wanting in terms of redemption, and I’m just happy to land a clean run and be up on the podium. After my results in Beijing I was really, really hungry to make this one happen. My goal coming here was at least to get one [podium] and so I’m just so proud of myself, I’m hoping to just continue with this momentum and I have some cool tricks to show in big air, so I’m excited for that."
Megan couldn't make it to podium in during her debut to in Beijing Olympics 2022 (China). She missed the medal by One spot in Women's Freeski Big Air (Ranking 4) and was in the bottom of the table ranks in Women's Freeski Slopestyle (Ranking 13). Click here to view Megan Oldham's Olympic Profile.
Canadian expectations are now getting higher in the high stake game during this championship. As This wins brings team Canada's current medal count to 2 Bronze, 0 Silver and 0 Gold on the Medal Leaderboard of Milano Cortina 2026 (Winter Olympics Games).
Canada's still holding the bottom of list in Leaderboard amongst the participating nations however, things are looking bright to add more Gold's to Canadian Leaderboard at Milano Cortina 2026.
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