Chris CORNING

BEHIND THE CAMERA
Directed, produced and starred in a snowboard film (‘Teal’) featuring professional snowboarders Windham Miller, Brett Moody, Sam Klein, Colton Carroll, Conor Carroll, TJ Holman, and Sam Anderson. Released in October 2020, the film “tells a visual story of the bond of riding a wide variety of conditions and terrain.” Showcases the cityscape and backcountry scenery of Wyoming, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, Oregon, and Quebec. (forbes.com, 28 Oct 2020)

LOST GEAR
In January 2021, at the World Cup Big Air in Kreischberg, he finished 16th overall and failed to reached the final for only the second time in his career (first was Quebec City 2017). It also broke a streak of four consecutive podium finishes, and eight of the past nine (finished ninth in Bejing 2018). His disappointing performance came after his gear was lost in transit and he had to borrow equipment that he was unfamiliar with. (summitdaily.com, 1 Feb 2021)

CHEF
Learned to cook while staying with a host family in Aspen, Colorado at age 15. Now enjoys cooking and hopes to go to culinary school in the future. Favourite dish to make is homemade pasta. (mix1043fm.com, 23 Jan 2020; teamusa.org)

PARTNER
Girlfriend, Shannatay Bergeron, competes in supercross, finishing fourth at the 2019 national championships. (Instagram, 9 Mar 2021)

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Third youngest US male snowboarder to compete at the Olympic Winter Games (18 years 156 days), and was the third youngest male on the US team at PyeongChang 2018.

Won a World Championship medal in his first three appearances, with bronze (slopestyle) and silver (Big Air) in 2017, before topping the slopestyle podium in 2019 (Park City), where he finished 0.25 points ahead of Mark McMorris (CAN).

Won seven World Cup Crystal Globes, tied with Janne Korpi (FIN) for the most by a male freestyle snowboarder. Has two Overall Park & Pipe titles (2018, 2019), three slopestlye (2016, 2018, 2019) and two Big Air (2018, 2020). Won his first World Cup at his second event (Cardrona 2015), and has at least one victory every year until Covid affected 2020/21 season.

Competed at the past four Winter X Games, finishing fourth (Big Air) in 2021. Won Big Air bronze at the 2018 X Games Norway and finished fourth a year later.

Three-time Junior World Championship gold medallist, winning three of the four events contested. Won both slopestyle and Big Air in 2016 (Seiser Alm) and the slopestyle in 2017 (Spindleruv Mlyn). Finished 10th (slopestyle) at Yabuli in 2015.

First to land a quad cork in World Cup competition (Cardrona 2018) and first to land a quad off a scaffold jump, at Atlanta in December 2019.