China’s Kong Fanyu (center) poses for a photo with Danielle Scott of Australia (left) and Anastasiya Novosad of Ukraine after winning the women’s freestyle aerials final of the 2022-23 season FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, on Thursday. Photo: Tamuna Kulumbegashvili/Xinhua
Kong competes in the women’s freestyle aerials final of the tournament. She secured the gold medal with 85.30 points. Photo: Tamuna Kulumbegashvili/Xinhua
China’s Xu Mengtao performs a trick on a practice run ahead of the women’s freestyle skiing aerials qualification of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in February last year. Photo: Ezra Shaw/VCG
Xu celebrates as she wins the gold in the women’s freestyle skiing aerials final at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The 32-year-old Olympic champion has collected 27 World Cup victories over her career. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov/VCG
Xu hugs Li Nina during the women’s aerials event in freestyle skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia in February 2014. Xu gained the silver medal and Li ranked fourth in the event. Photo: VCG
Li celebrates her gold medal jump in the women’s aerials during the freestyle skiing World Cup in January 2010 in Alberta, Canada. Li has won three world championships in aerials. She was also a silver medalist in the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Photo: VCG
Li returns to Beijing in March 2005 after claiming gold in the women’s aerials at the 2005 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Kuusamo, Finland. Photo: VCG
China’s Cheng Shuang competes in the women’s freestyle skiing aerials finals during the Sochi Winter Olympics in February 2014. She took fifth place at the event. Photo: VCG
Born in 1987, Cheng was named champion in the women’s aerials event at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in February 2011 in the U.S. Photo: VCG