Simon Dumont

Simon Dumont is an American freestyle skier born on 9 July 1986. He is known for exceptional amplitude in half-pipe competitions, regularly reaching heights up to 20 feet out of the pipe, and for his signature big air trick, the superman double frontflip, which he landed to win the 2009 X Games Big Air. In 2006 to 2007 he overshot a 100 foot jump in Park City, Utah, landing flat, rupturing his spleen and breaking his pelvis in three places, yet returned to skiing two months later. On 11 April 2008 he set a world quarter-pipe height record at Sunday River in Newry, Maine, aiming 35.5 feet out of a 38 foot quarter-pipe with a cork 900 tail grab. He also hosted the Dumont Cup, a contest for young skiers at Sunday River, from 2009. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Simon Dumont.