Tom Wallisch is a professional freeskier born on 22 July 1987 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began skiing in 1990 and competing in 2009, and studied business at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He was discovered when he won the 2007 Level 1 SuperUnknown video contest, and pioneered becoming famous in freeskiing through online video parts before winning competitions. He won gold in slopestyle at Winter X Games XVI, won the Powder Reader Poll in 2011 and 2012 and Freeskier magazine's Skier of the Year award in 2010 and 2012. His 2012 season was his breakout, with X Games gold, a Killington Dew Tour win, the overall Dew Cup and the title of 2012 Men's Slopestyle World Champion. He tore his ACL in the 2013 to 2014 season and could not qualify for the Sochi Olympics. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Tom Wallisch.
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