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Hunter Hess

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Hunter Hess is an American freestyle skier born on 1 October 1998 who represented the United States at the 2026 Winter Olympics. He attended Summit High School in Bend, Oregon, where he played soccer, and joined the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation at the age of nine. He earned his first FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup podium on 22 December 2018, finishing third, and tore a knee ligament shortly before the Olympic qualifiers, missing the 2022 Games. In the 2023 to 2024 World Cup he had three podiums and finished second overall behind teammate Alex Ferreira, and he won Winter X Games SuperPipe bronze medals in January 2024 and January 2025. He finished fifth in the halfpipe at the 2025 World Championships and tenth in the halfpipe final at the 2026 Olympics. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Hunter Hess.

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