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Megan Oldham is the third Canadian to earn multiple medals at the Milano-Cortina Olympics.
The freestyle skier scored a combined 180.75 points in her best two of three runs for gold in the women’s big air final to defeat Chinese superstar Eileen Gu (179) on Monday in Italy.
On Monday, Oldham captured a bronze medal in the women’s slopestyle event, the 24-year-old’s first at a Winter Games.
Mikael Kingsbury (dual moguls gold, moguls silver) and short track speed skater Courtney Sarault (2,000m mixed relay silver, 1,000 silver, 500 bronze) are the other athletes with more than one medal for Canada, which has 11 overall.
Four years ago in Beijing, Oldham missed the podium, placing fourth in big air and 13th in slopestyle.
“I definitely felt like I left that Games a bit hungry to show more at this next Games,” the native of Parry Sound, Ont., said in a recent story on nbcolympics.com, “because I do feel like there was more potential for me to do better.”
On Saturday, Oldham qualified first for the final, compiling 171.75 points, one more than Gu, who had not competed in big air since her 2022 Olympic victory.
Oldham, who captured 2023 world bronze in big air, has 11 career World Cup podiums, including four victories.
Italy’s Flora Tabanelli (178.25) took bronze on Monday at Livigno Snow Park while Oldham’s teammate, Naomi Urness of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was sixth in her Olympic debut.
Earlier this season, the 21-year-old Urness reached the medal podium in the first three World Cup events she entered in November/December — Secret Garden, China (silver), Beijing (bronze) and Steamboat Springs, Colo. (gold).
Her first World Cup win came Dec. 13 when she defeated Ukraine’s Kateryna Kotsar.
