On February 11, 2018, at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Perrine Laffont was crowned Olympic champion in freestyle skiing in the moguls event.
Perrine Laffont, born on October 28, 1998, in Lavelanet, is a French freestyle skier.
At only fifteen years old, she was selected for the moguls final at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where she finished fifth in the qualifiers and ultimately fourteenth in her first Olympic final.
On March 9, 2017, in Sierra Nevada, she became the world champion in team moguls skiing at the age of 18, after winning silver the day before in the individual event.
Her achievements:
Sochi 2014: 14th in moguls
Kreischberg 2015: 13th in moguls and 6th in parallel moguls.
Sierra Nevada 2017: 2nd place in the individual moguls event.
The next day, she won the first major title of her career at just 18 years old, beating Yulia Galycheva (Kazakhstan) in the parallel moguls final.
She also became the first French world champion in this discipline.
Pyeongchang 2018: Gold medal, Olympic Games Gold medal in moguls
February 10, 2019, World Champion in Park City, United States
On February 10, 2019, Perrine Laffont retained her world title in parallel moguls in Park City, United States.
The 20-year-old from Monts d'Olmes in Ariège beat American Jaelin Kauf.
On March 1, 2020, Perrine Laffont, a skier from the Monts d'Olmes resort, won her third Freestyle Skiing World Cup, taking third place in a parallel event in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
In February 2026, at the Olympic Games in Cortina, Italy, she won the bronze medal in freestyle moguls skiing.
