24/03/2025
Congratulations to our own Matt Graham, mogul legend, who won Bronze in the Dual Moguls at the FIS World Championships over the weekend....
This is Australian mogul skier, Matt Graham last night in St Moritz at the FIS World Championships.
We've had the pleasure of knowing Matt on the circuit for well over a decade. We were in PyeongChang 2018 when he won his Winter Olympic Silver medal and have lost count of the number of Deer Valley podiums we've witnessed from the bottom of the course.
Matt is grounded, focused, cheeky, a team player and a fierce Aussie competitor especially when it comes to Dual Moguls. His whole family get behind him on the regular with their own brand of cheeky fun served up with generous spirit - that's him with his parents Deb and Steve in the pic.
Why do we love Dual Moguls (and Matt) so much?
In a freestyle skiing world of individual performances it is super exciting to watch two skiers on course battle it out in real time against each other. It pushes competitors beyond their bounds, uplifts spectators to cheer from their hearts and it brings all sorts of drama that Matt knows all too well.
He's been in near miss collisions with fellow dual competitors when they've crashed into his lane, he's run side by side with the GOAT Mikael Kingsbury and together with Ikuma Horishima have secured not one but two "dad podiums" as new parents this year alone.
Last night Matt, hot off a brutal crash in moguls at Livigno last week, was part of one of the wildest dual mogul competitions we have witnessed in our life time. A lot of ligaments were tested run after run with stack after stack, some ligaments won, some lost.
Matt, like so many in the competition before him, crashed in his semi final against MIkael, as did both Ikuma and Filip Gravenfors in their semi final crash. By the time the small final came around Matt, himself sporting a ton of pain, raced himself to the finish line with Filip limping down the run while Matt secured World Championship Bronze.
Then Mikael went up against a wounded Ikuma who could not take on his Big Final run, and history was made with Mikael 🥇 Ikuma 🥈 and Matt 🥉.
Australian history was also made for the 30 year old from NSW's Central Coast, in what is potentially his last FIS World Championships.
Graham now has five World Championship medals in his illustrious career, the most of any Australian winter sports athlete, surpassing snowboarder Scotty James.
He also has 27 FIS WC podiums (4 x 🥇, 8 x 🥈 and 15 x 🥉) since 2015.
Legend status activated.
We can't wait to watch him on next season's FIS WC circuit leading into the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics in Livigno.
📷 Olympic Winter Institute of Australia / Hocking images
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