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Alex Hall (skier)

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Alex Hall
Personal information
Full nameAlexander Hall
Born (1998-09-21) September 21, 1998 (age 26)
Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.
Alma materThe Winter Sports School in Park City
Height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight180 lb (82 kg)
Sport
Country United States
SportFreestyle skiing
Event(s)Slopestyle, Big Air
ClubPark City Ski and Snowboard Club
Medal record
Men's freestyle skiing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Beijing Slopestyle
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Aspen Slopestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Engadin Slopestyle
Winter X Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Aspen Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2019 Hafjell Big Air
Gold medal – first place 2020 Hafjell Knuckle Huck
Gold medal – first place 2021 Real Ski
Gold medal – first place 2022 Aspen Big Air
Gold medal – first place 2025 Aspen Knuckle Huck
Silver medal – second place 2020 Hafjell Slopestyle
Silver medal – second place 2024 Aspen Big Air
Silver medal – second place 2024 Aspen Slopestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Aspen Big Air
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Aspen Slopestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Aspen Knuckle Huck
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Lillehammer Slopestyle

Alexander Hall (born September 21, 1998), known colloquially as A Hall, is an American freestyle skier from Fairbanks, Alaska. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, while competing for Team USA, Hall won the Olympic gold medal in Freestyle skiing – Men's slopestyle.[1] He currently holds 12 medals from the Winter X Games, being the first to win all four divisions (Slopestyle, Big Air, Knuckle Huck, & Real Ski) as well as to land the first 2160 (6 full rotations) in competition.[2][3][4]

Career

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Having moved to Switzerland at an early age, Hall then returned to the United States at age 16 to finish high school at the Winter Sports School in Park City. He started competing at the FIS World Cup level during the next season and was then invited to the 2016 Lillehammer Youth Olympics, where he placed second in Slopestyle and fourth in Halfpipe.[5] At the end of the 2025 season, Hall had accumulated 16 World Cup podiums, including 10 first places, 2 Crystal Globes, and 2 World Championship bronze medals.[6] Hall developed his early competitive acumen during the Swisscom Freeski Tour, as well as the U.S. Revolution Tour, experiencing an important break-out moment during the 2015 Dumont Cup (USA) by placing seventh in this Slopestyle event organized by the Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP). Hall became a member of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team at age 17, first joining the Development (Rookie) team before being promoted a year later to the Pro team. He placed sixteenth in Slopestyle at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and first in Slopestyle and eighth in Big Air at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.[7][8] Hall currently rides for Samsung, Moncler, Faction Skis, Monster Energy, Dalbello, Look Bindings, and Wells Lamont.

Personal life

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Hall credits much of his rising enthusiasm for the sport to attending Zurich’s annual freestyle.ch ski event with friends and older brother, Aldo, a snowboarder who also served as his first videographer while helping him secure initial sponsors that included Surface Skis, Panda Poles, Shred Optics, and Slytech.[9] Hall's 2014 Newschooler's SuperUnknown clip was a collaboration with his brother. His parents, Elena Conti (an Italian citizen from Bologna) and Marcus Hall (a U.S. citizen from Salt Lake City) are both professors at the University of Zurich.[10] When interviewed by USA Today in 2022, Alex Hall noted that he holds both Italian and U.S. passports, and once even talked "with Italian coaches about potentially competing for them" but that after moving to Park City at 16 he quickly realized he wanted to ski for the U.S.[11] Alex Hall’s multi-country background means that beyond English, he speaks fluent German and Swiss German, and intermediate French and Italian.[12] As a middle schooler at the Inter-Community School Zurich,[13] Hall was voted Most Valuable basketball player, and for a stint he played goalie for the youth division of Zurich’s professional soccer club, Grasshopper Fussball AG. Off the slopes, Alex Hall relaxes by surfing, golfing, tennis, and occasionally, ceramics. By taking most of his college classes online, Hall was in 2025 a senior at the University of Utah, pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Environmental & Sustainability Studies.

World Cup Crystal Globes

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Alex Hall with Crystal Globe for Slopestyle FIS Freeski World Cup in Tignes France, 2025
Season Discipline
2023–24 Big Air
2024–25 Slopestyle[14]

World Cup Podiums

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Season Podiums
Slopestyle Big Air Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Σ
2018 1 1
2019 1 1 2
2020 2 2
2021 1 1
2022 1 1 2
2023 1 1
2024 1 1 2 4
2025 2 1 3
Total 6 1 3 4 2 16[15]

World Cup Victories

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Date Place Country Discipline
March 3, 2018 Silvaplana  Switzerland SS
January 12, 2019 Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via  France SS
November 3, 2019 Modena  Italy BA
December 21, 2019 Atlanta  United States BA
January 9, 2022 Mammoth Mountain  United States SS
December 2, 2023 Beijing  China BA
February, 3 2024 Mammoth Mountain  United States SS
March 15, 2024 Tignes  France BA
February 1, 2025 Aspen  United States SS
March 14, 2025 Tignes  France SS

Legend:
SS = Slopestyle
BA = Big air

Films and Filming

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Passionate about capturing his sport in imagery, A Hall has taken center stage in a wide collection of ski films and magazines, including helping found the ski film brand Magma with fellow U.S. Ski Team member Hunter Hess and filmer Owen Dahlberg.[16][17] The threesome has produced several full-feature edits, along with creating a biweekly, candid short series, Magma Mondays. Other filmers who have collaborated with Hall include Etienne Mérel, Justin Kauffman, and George Haller, producing such films as:

Other Accolades

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Interviews

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Skier Alex Hall sliding a rail for Magma 3 film segment, 2023
Hall in Utah, 2023






References

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  1. ^ Branch, John (February 15, 2022). "Americans take gold and silver in men's slopestyle skiing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  2. ^ "Alex Hall Athlete Profile for X Games Aspen 2025". X Games. Retrieved May 26, 2025.
  3. ^ "Alex Hall's official X Games athlete biography". X Games. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Bruton, Michelle. "Alex Hall Wins X Games Real Ski 2021 Gold". Forbes.
  5. ^ Olympics (February 19, 2016). Ski Slopestyle - Birk Ruud (NOR) wins Men's gold | Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games. Retrieved May 27, 2025 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Alex HALL - Athlete Biography - Freestyle". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  7. ^ "Alex Hall". www.teamusa.com. January 20, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  8. ^ "Athlete profile – Alex Hall". PyeongChang2018.com. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on April 21, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  9. ^ "Skier Exposure: Alex Hall | 2014". Newschoolers.com. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  10. ^ Fontela, Jonah (February 14, 2022). "USA freeski sensation Alex Hall puts the style in slopestyle". www.olympics.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  11. ^ Sports, USA TODAY. "Winter Olympics recap: Jessie Diggins misses out on skiing history; US men's hockey team eliminated". USA TODAY. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  12. ^ KSDK News (January 28, 2022). 2022 Winter Olympics: Slopestyle skier Alex Hall serves as team's unofficial Alps tour guide. Retrieved May 28, 2025 – via YouTube.
  13. ^ "ICS Alumnus Alex Hall at 2018 Winter Olympics". www.icsz.ch. February 8, 2018. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  14. ^ "Alex Hall - 2022-11-14 - 2023 30 Under 30: Sports". Forbes. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  15. ^ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Alex HALL - Athlete Biography - Freestyle". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  16. ^ "Browser Ski Magazine | Print Magazine & Curated Ski Content | Videos | Articles | Community". Browser Magazine. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  17. ^ "SWISS Magazine November 2017 - BANGKOK". Issuu. November 2, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  18. ^ Daily, Antonio Olivero The Summit (February 12, 2020). "Parkite Alex Hall won a gold and silver medal this past weekend on the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain". Park Record. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  19. ^ Farrell, Brendan (December 21, 2021). "Colby Stevenson, Alex Hall take top 2 spots in slopestyle at Dew Tour". Park Record. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  20. ^ "The 2020 Newschoolers Awards Presented By Toyota". Newschoolers.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  21. ^ "Newschoolers Awards 2022 - And the winners are..." Newschoolers.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  22. ^ Tomasic, Megan (January 12, 2020). "Pro, amateur skiers take to rails, ramps in Seven Springs competition". TribLIVE.com. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  23. ^ "The 2022 ESPYS Nominees". ESPN Press Room U.S. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  24. ^ "Alex Hall - 2022-11-14 - 2023 30 Under 30: Sports". Forbes. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  25. ^ "U.S. Ski & Snowboard Announces 2025 Congress Awards Winners". U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  26. ^ "Dew Tour Team Event - Jib Results". Newschoolers.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  27. ^ "Dew Tour 2018 – Faction Skis". factionskis.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  28. ^ Daily, Antonio Olivero The Summit (February 12, 2020). "Parkite Alex Hall won a gold and silver medal this past weekend on the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain". Park Record. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  29. ^ "Faction team wins big in North America – Faction Skis". factionskis.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  30. ^ Farrell, Brendan (December 21, 2021). "Colby Stevenson, Alex Hall take top 2 spots in slopestyle at Dew Tour". Park Record. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  31. ^ "Stevenson First, Hall Third at Dew Tour Streetstyle". U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
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