Alex Hall (skier)

Alexander Hall, known colloquially as A Hall, is an American freestyle skier from Fairbanks, Alaska. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, while competing for Team USA, Hall won the Olympic gold medal in Freestyle skiing – Men's slopestyle. He currently holds 14 medals from the Winter X Games, being the first to win all four divisions as well as to land the first 2160 in competition.

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Career

Having moved to Switzerland at an early age, Hall then returned to the United States at age 16 to finish high school at the Winter Sports School in Park City. He started competing at the FIS World Cup level during the next season and was then invited to the 2016 Lillehammer Youth Olympics, where he placed second in Slopestyle and fourth in Halfpipe. At the end of the 2025 season, Hall had accumulated 16 World Cup podiums, including 10 first places, 2 Crystal Globes, and 2 World Championship bronze medals. Hall developed his early competitive acumen during the, as well as the, experiencing an important break-out moment during the 2015 by placing seventh in this Slopestyle event organized by the . Hall became a member of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team at age 17, first joining the Development team before being promoted a year later to the Pro team. He placed sixteenth in Slopestyle at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and first in Slopestyle and eighth in Big Air at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Hall currently rides for Samsung, Moncler, Rao's, Faction Skis, Monster Energy, Dalbello, Look Bindings, and Wells Lamont.
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Personal life

Hall credits much of his rising enthusiasm for the sport to attending Zurich’s annual freestyle.ch ski event with friends and older brother, Aldo, a snowboarder who also served as his first videographer while helping him secure initial sponsors that included Surface Skis, Panda Poles, Shred Optics, and Slytech. Hall's 2014 Newschooler's SuperUnknown was a collaboration with his brother. His parents, Elena Conti and Marcus Hall are both professors at the University of Zurich. When interviewed by USA Today in 2022, Alex Hall noted that he holds both Italian and U.S. passports, and once even talked "with Italian coaches about potentially competing for them" but that after moving to Park City at 16 he quickly realized he wanted to ski for the U.S. Alex Hall’s multi-country background means that beyond English, he speaks fluent German and Swiss German, and intermediate French and Italian. As a middle schooler at the Inter-Community School Zurich, Hall was voted Most Valuable basketball player, and for a stint he played goalie for the youth division of Zurich’s professional soccer club, . Off the slopes, Alex Hall relaxes by surfing, golfing, tennis, fly fishing, and occasionally, . By taking most of his college classes online, Hall was in 2025 a senior at the University of Utah, pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Environmental & Sustainability Studies.

World Cup Crystal Globes

	Season	Discipline
	2023–24	Big Air
	2024–25	Slopestyle
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World Cup Victories

Legend:
SS = Slopestyle
BA = Big air

Films and Filming

Passionate about capturing his sport in imagery, A Hall has taken center stage in a wide collection of ski films and magazines, including helping found the ski film brand with fellow U.S. Ski Team member and filmer . The threesome has produced several full-feature edits, along with creating a biweekly, candid short series, . Other filmers who have collaborated with Hall include,, and, producing such films as:

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Other Accolades

First Place,, 2013
First skier to land a, 2016
Winner, follow-cam freeski,, 2016
Winner of the, 2017
Winner of, 2017
3 X Skier of the Year, presented by Newschoolers & Toyota, 2020 & 2022 & 2026
Best 540,, 2019
Winner,, 2020
ESPYS nominee, Best Athlete, Men's Action Sports, 2022
Utah Governor’s State of Sport Awards,, 2022
Inductee, Forbes 30 Under 30: Sports, 2023.
X Games Real Ski, Best Trick of All Time, for a, 2023
Stifel Star of the Week,, 2025
One of two, Athletes of the Year, Stifel U.S. Freeski Team, 2025
9 Podiums in the annual Dew Tour between 2018 and 2024, to include Slopestyle, Streetstyle, and Team events.

Interviews

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