Kingsbury comes agonizingly close to winning Canada's first Olympic gold medal in Italy
Nobody posted a higher score in men’s moguls than Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury, but remarkably, it wasn’t enough to win gold at the Olympics in Italy on Thursday.
The 33-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que., took the lead in the competition with a score of 83.71, before the final skier, Australia’s Cooper Woods, finished with the exact same score.
Mikael Kingsbury’s silver-medal run 🇨🇦
He has four medals in four Olympics 🥈🥈🥇🥈pic.twitter.com/gLYOgKi7q1
— Rob Williams (@RobTheHockeyGuy) February 12, 2026
But it’ll be Woods, not Kingsbury, who takes home gold. Kingsbury wins silver, while Japan’s Ikuma Horishima claims bronze.
Moguls scores are based on a combination of time points, air points, and turns points. The Aussie scored higher on his turns, and unfortunately for Kingsbury, that is the tiebreaker in moguls.
Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury finishes in a first-place tie, but misses out on gold on a tiebreaker. He'll bring home silver. pic.twitter.com/0scUticbNs
— Rob Williams (@RobTheHockeyGuy) February 12, 2026
Kingsbury is one of the greatest Winter Olympians Canada has ever produced, winning four medals in four straight Olympics. Kingsbury also won silver in 2014 and 2022, and took home gold in 2018.
Canada is still looking for its first gold medal of Milano Cortina 2026, as we enter Day 6 of competition.
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Kingsbury’s medal is Canada’s fifth of these Games. Ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won bronze in figure skating on Wednesday, with other medals coming in short-track speed skating, long-track speed skating, and slopestyle skiing.