| Kelly Sildaru | |
| Birth Date: | 17 February 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Seasons: | 5 - (2017–2019, 2020–present) |
| Wins: | 6 |
| Totalpodiums: | 13 |
| Individual Starts: | 15 |
| Wcoveralls: | 0 |
| Wctitles: | 1 – (1) |
| Height: | 5ft 5in[1] |
| Show-Medals: | no |
Kelly Sildaru (pronounced as /et/; born 17 February 2002) is an Estonian Olympic freestyle skier.
Sildaru won a gold medal in the slopestyle event in the 2016 Winter X Games beating Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen.[2] With this win, at age 13, Sildaru became the youngest gold medalist to date at a Winter X Games event and the first person to win a Winter X Games medal for Estonia. She is also the youngest to win two X Games gold medals. Sildaru has won the women's slopestyle on the 2015[3] and 2016[4] Dew Tour.
During the Big Air competition of the 2017 Winter X Games Norway, Sildaru became the first woman ever to land a Switch 1260 ° Mute and a 1440° during a competition.[5] Because of her young age, the first World Cup event she was allowed to participate in was on 27 August 2017 in Cardrona, New Zealand. She won the slopestyle competition.[6]
Despite being the gold medal favorite for the women’s slopestyle event in 2018 Winter Olympics, she missed competing in the Games because of a knee injury.[7] However she later recovered and was able to compete in the world championships winning gold in halfpipe.[8] In the 2020 Youth Olympic Games she won a gold medal for the Women's Freestyle Skiing.[9]
During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the slopestyle event with her top score of 82.06 in her first run.[10]
Sildaru has been named the female Estonian Athlete of the Year twice (2019, 2022),[11] and is the recipient of a high Estonian state award, the Order of the White Star, 3rd class.
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[12]
| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Halfpipe | Big air | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 15 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| align=left | 19 | Bronze | 17 | |||
See also: FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.
| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Halfpipe | Big air | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 16 | Gold | — | |||
| align=left | 18 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| align=left | 20 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Halfpipe | Big air | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 2017 | 14 | Gold | Gold | ||
| align=left | 2018 Cardrona | 15 | Gold | Gold | Silver | |
| align=left | 2019 Kläppen | 16 | Gold | — | Gold |
| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Superpipe | Big air | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 13 | Gold | — | — | ||
| align=left | 14 | Gold | — | Silver | ||
| align=left | 15 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| align=left | 16 | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||
| align=left | 17 | Gold | Gold | 4 | ||
| align=left | 18 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| align=left | 19 | — | Gold | — | ||
| align=left | 20 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Superpipe | Big air | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 2016 Oslo | 14 | — | 4 | ||
| align=left | 2017 Hafjell | 15 | — | Silver |
See also: FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup. Sildaru ended the 2021-2022 World Cup season by winning the FIS World Cup slopestyle title and taking home her first crystal globe.[13]
| Season | Age | Overall | Slopestyle | Halfpipe | Big air | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 94 | 21 | 18 | — | ||
| 16 | 29 | 10 | 4 | — | ||
| 17 | did not compete | |||||
| 18 | 12 | 19 | — | |||
| 19 | 6 | 16 | ||||
| 20 | 19 | 14 | 15 | — | ||
| 21 | injured: did not compete | |||||
Standings through 17 January 2024
| No. | Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2017–18 | 27 August 2017 |  Cardrona, New Zealand | Slopestyle | 1st | |
| 2 | align=right | 1 September 2017 | Cardrona, New Zealand | Halfpipe | 2nd | |
| 3 | 2018–19 | 23 November 2018 |  Stubai, Austria | Slopestyle | 1st | |
| 4 | 7 December 2018 |  Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 1st | ||
| 5 | align=right | 9 March 2019 | Mammoth, USA | Halfpipe | 2nd | |
| 6 | 2020–21 | align=right | 8 January 2021 | Kreischberg, Austria | Big air | 3rd |
| 7 | 2021–22 | 20 November 2021 | Stubai, Austria | Slopestyle | 1st | |
| 8 | 10 December 2021 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 3rd | ||
| 9 | align=right | 8 January 2022 | Mammoth, USA | Halfpipe | 2nd | |
| 10 | 9 January 2022 | Mammoth, USA | Slopestyle | 1st | ||
| 11 | 26 March 2022 | Silvaplana, Switzerland | Slopestyle | 1st | ||
| 12 | 2022–23 | align=right | 19 November 2022 | Stubai, Austria | Slopestyle | 2nd |
| 13 | 17 December 2022 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 3rd |
Sildaru was honored with a one-of-a-kind Kelly Sildaru Barbie doll on 25 May 2022 as part of Barbie's Dream Gap project.[14] [15]