# Tess Ledeux
**Tess Ledeux** (born 2001 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie, France) is a French freestyle skier who competes in slopestyle and big air, and who won the silver medal in women's freeski big air at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) • [2](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60283981) She is a three-time world champion, taking slopestyle gold at [Sierra Nevada](https://www.edgepedia.org/sierra-nevada) in 2017 and big air gold in Utah in 2019 and at Bakuriani in 2023.[3](https://www.lequipe.fr/fiche/tess-ledeux/55325) • [1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 2001, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie (FRA); 158 cm; Club des Sports de la Plagne[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) |
| Olympic medal | Silver, women's freeski big air, Beijing 2022, 187.50 points behind Gu Ailing's 188.25[2](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60283981) |
| World titles | Slopestyle 2017 (Sierra Nevada), Big Air 2019 (Utah) and 2023 (Bakuriani)[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) • [3](https://www.lequipe.fr/fiche/tess-ledeux/55325) |
| Signature trick | First woman to land a double cork 1620 in competition, at X Games Aspen 2022[4](https://www.equipedefrance.com/athlete/tess-ledeux) |
| X Games record | 7 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze; tied with Kelly Sildaru at 10 medals, the most for a woman skier[5](https://www.xgames.com/athletes/tess-ledeux/) |
| World Cup | 2025 slopestyle crystal globe (1st, 218.00 points); overall Park & Pipe globe in 2021[6](https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?competitorid=207678&cupcode=WC§orcode=FS&type=cups) • [7](https://www.douane.gouv.fr/en/node/18901) |
| 2026 status | Withdrew from the Milan-Cortina Olympics while recovering from a concussion sustained in March 2025[8](https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski-freestyle/Actualites/Tess-ledeux-forfait-pour-les-jeux-de-milan-cortina-il-faut-encore-que-je-fasse-un-peu-le-deuil-de-ces-jeux-olympiques/1632022/) |
## Background
Ledeux grew up at La Plagne in the Savoie department and joined the French team at age 14.[4](https://www.equipedefrance.com/athlete/tess-ledeux) • [9](https://rideordie.fr/interview-tess-ledeux-le-prodige-du-ski-freestyle/) She is the cousin of the halfpipe skier Kévin Rolland, a three-time SuperPipe gold medalist, who along with her coach Greg Guenet helped her navigate her early rise.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) • [5](https://www.xgames.com/athletes/tess-ledeux/) She is a member of the Équipe de France Douane, the customs-service athlete program, since 2019.[7](https://www.douane.gouv.fr/en/node/18901)
## World championship breakthrough
At 15, Ledeux won her first world title in slopestyle at the 2017 World Freestyle Ski Championships in Sierra Nevada, making her the youngest-ever freeski world champion.[10](https://www.redbull.com/th-th/female-freeski-stars-to-know) Two years later she took the big air world title at the 2019 championships in Utah, where she competed in the eight-woman final at Park City-Canyons Village on 2 February 2019.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) • [11](https://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2019/FS/8795/2019FS8795SLF.pdf) A third world title, in big air, followed at Bakuriani in 2023.[3](https://www.lequipe.fr/fiche/tess-ledeux/55325)
## Olympic results
Ledeux made her Olympic debut at PyeongChang 2018, finishing 15th in women's slopestyle.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181) At Beijing 2022 she qualified second for the big air final behind [Megan Oldham](https://www.edgepedia.org/megan-oldham), then took the silver medal with a best two-run total of 187.50, scoring 94.50 on her first run and 93.00 on her second.[2](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60283981) Gu Ailing Eileen of China won gold with 188.25, overtaking Ledeux on the final run by landing a 1620, four and a half full rotations, a trick Ledeux had been the only athlete to have attempted and landed in competition before; Ledeux and [Mathilde Gremaud](https://www.edgepedia.org/mathilde-gremaud) tried to answer it but could not.[12](https://time.com/6145992/eileen-gu-gold-big-air-beijing-olympics/) • [13](https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2022/12/28/tess-ledeux-skieuse-j-aurais-pu-totalement-craquer-pendant-les-jo-de-pekin-pour-ca-je-suis-fiere-de-moi_6155868_3242.html) In the Beijing slopestyle event she finished seventh.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181)
## The double cork 1620
The double cork 1620, four and a half rotations with two off-axis flips, became Ledeux's signature jump. At the [X Games](https://www.edgepedia.org/x-games) in Aspen in 2022 she became the first woman to land it in competition and won the big air event for the third time; the next day she won the slopestyle, becoming the first woman to win both events at the same X Games edition.[4](https://www.equipedefrance.com/athlete/tess-ledeux) Before the Beijing final she was the only woman in the world landing the trick, and French commentators described it as effectively guaranteeing a title if she stomped it.[14](https://www.eurosport.fr/ski-acrobatique/pekin-2022/2022/jo-pekin-2022-le-double-cork-1620-de-tess-ledeux-explique-si-elle-le-reussit-elle-est-assuree-d-etre_sto8761308/story.shtml) She later opened the 2023-24 Copper Mountain big air World Cup final with a left double cork 1620 safety grab scoring 95.75, the highest-scoring trick of the day in either the women's or men's competition, and won the event.[15](https://www.fis-ski.com/freeski-park-and-pipe/news/2023-24/big-week-in-copper-closes-with-big-air-wins-for-ledeux-and-forehand)
## X Games and World Cup record
Ledeux first appeared at the X Games in 2017 as a last-minute addition to the Aspen slopestyle roster, taking silver there and in Norway that year.[5](https://www.xgames.com/athletes/tess-ledeux/) Her X Games medal count stands at 7 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze, including big air and slopestyle gold at Aspen in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and she is tied with [Kelly Sildaru](https://www.edgepedia.org/kelly-sildaru) at 10 medals as the most decorated woman skier in X Games history.[5](https://www.xgames.com/athletes/tess-ledeux/)
In the FIS World Cup she has won the slopestyle crystal globe for 2025 with 218.00 points and finished second in big air that season with 270.00 points.[6](https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?competitorid=207678&cupcode=WC§orcode=FS&type=cups) She won the overall Park & Pipe globe in 2021, was second in 2023 and 2025, and third in 2022 and 2024, and led the big air standings in 2022 and 2023.[6](https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?competitorid=207678&cupcode=WC§orcode=FS&type=cups) Her 2024-25 season also brought World Cup slopestyle gold at Aspen, big air silver at the Tignes World Cup, and X Games gold in slopestyle and bronze in big air at Aspen.[7](https://www.douane.gouv.fr/en/node/18901)
## Injuries and the 2026 Olympics
Days after winning X Games big air gold in 2020, Ledeux ruptured the lateral ligament of her left knee, ending her season; she returned the following winter to win the slopestyle World Cup and the overall Park & Pipe globe.[4](https://www.equipedefrance.com/athlete/tess-ledeux) In March 2025 she suffered a concussion in a fall at the Tignes World Cup. After roughly ten months of recovery, she announced in January 2026 that she would skip the Milan-Cortina Olympics, saying the timelines were too short and the risks too high, a decision taken with her medical team to complete her recovery without excessive risk.[8](https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski-freestyle/Actualites/Tess-ledeux-forfait-pour-les-jeux-de-milan-cortina-il-faut-encore-que-je-fasse-un-peu-le-deuil-de-ces-jeux-olympiques/1632022/) • [16](https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski-freestyle/Actualites/Tess-ledeux-forfait-pour-les-jo-2026-de-milan-cortina/1632006)
## References
1. [Tess Ledeux, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137181)
2. [Winter Olympics: Freestyle Skiing: Women's Freeski Big Air results, BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60283981)
3. [Tess Ledeux, ski freestyle, L'Équipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/fiche/tess-ledeux/55325)
4. [Tess Ledeux, ski acrobatique, slopestyle, Freeski big air, Équipe de France](https://www.equipedefrance.com/athlete/tess-ledeux)
5. [Tess Ledeux X Games Results, Medals, Highlights & Bio, X Games](https://www.xgames.com/athletes/tess-ledeux/)
6. [Tess LEDEUX, Athlete Biography, FIS](https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?competitorid=207678&cupcode=WC§orcode=FS&type=cups)
7. [Résultats Equipe France Douane - Tess LEDEUX, Direction Générale des Douanes](https://www.douane.gouv.fr/en/node/18901)
8. [Tess Ledeux, forfait pour les Jeux de Milan-Cortina, L'Équipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski-freestyle/Actualites/Tess-ledeux-forfait-pour-les-jeux-de-milan-cortina-il-faut-encore-que-je-fasse-un-peu-le-deuil-de-ces-jeux-olympiques/1632022/)
9. [Entretien avec Tess Ledeux, Ride or Die](https://rideordie.fr/interview-tess-ledeux-le-prodige-du-ski-freestyle/)
10. [Freeskiing: The top female athletes you need to know about, Red Bull](https://www.redbull.com/th-th/female-freeski-stars-to-know)
11. [FIS Freeski World Championships 2019, Ladies' Ski Big Air start list](https://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2019/FS/8795/2019FS8795SLF.pdf)
12. [How Eileen Gu's First Gold Medal Became the Biggest Moment of the Beijing Olympics, Time](https://time.com/6145992/eileen-gu-gold-big-air-beijing-olympics/)
13. [Tess Ledeux, skieuse, Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2022/12/28/tess-ledeux-skieuse-j-aurais-pu-totalement-craquer-pendant-les-jo-de-pekin-pour-ca-je-suis-fiere-de-moi_6155868_3242.html)
14. [Le "double cork 1620" de Tess Ledeux décrypté, Eurosport](https://www.eurosport.fr/ski-acrobatique/pekin-2022/2022/jo-pekin-2022-le-double-cork-1620-de-tess-ledeux-explique-si-elle-le-reussit-elle-est-assuree-d-etre_sto8761308/story.shtml)
15. [Big week in Copper closes with big air wins for Ledeux and Forehand, FIS](https://www.fis-ski.com/freeski-park-and-pipe/news/2023-24/big-week-in-copper-closes-with-big-air-wins-for-ledeux-and-forehand)
16. [Tess Ledeux forfait pour les JO 2026 de Milan-Cortina, L'Équipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski-freestyle/Actualites/Tess-ledeux-forfait-pour-les-jo-2026-de-milan-cortina/1632006)
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