Quebec’s Mikael Kingsbury takes Olympic silver after tiebreaker
Posted February 12, 2026 7:22 am.
Last Updated February 12, 2026 8:02 am.
Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, couldn’t have come any closer to winning Canada’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
The Canadian moguls star scored 83.71 points, the same as Australia’s Cooper Woods on Thursday, but Woods claimed the gold thanks to a higher turn score.
It’s Kingsbury’s fourth Olympic medal — three silver and one gold — while Canada now has five medals at these Games: two silver and three bronze.
The 33-year-old, the second-last skier in the final, had briefly taken the lead over Japan’s Ikuma Horishima (83.44 points). As Kingsbury waited in the finish area, Woods completed his run, matching the score but edging Kingsbury on turns — 48.4 to 47.7.
Woods, who finished ninth at last year’s world championships, was a surprise winner.
Kingsbury, widely regarded as the most dominant moguls skier in history, has 100 World Cup wins and nine world championship golds. Despite a groin injury this season, he won gold at a home World Cup in Quebec last month before narrowly missing Olympic gold.
Canada’s Julien Viel finished sixth in the Olympic final.
