From Parry Sound, Ontario
BORN: May 12, 2001, Newmarket, Ontario
GREW UP: Parry Sound, Ontario
KNOWN FOR: Olympic gold (big air) and bronze (slopestyle), Milano-Cortina 2026
DISCIPLINE: Freestyle skiing — slopestyle and big air
In February 2026, Megan Oldham stood at the top of the big air course at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, wind howling, the start delayed by over an hour. When the signal finally came, she launched into a switch double cork 1260 — a trick she’d only recently added to her arsenal — and landed it clean. Score: 91.75. It was enough to beat China’s Eileen Gu and take the gold.
Two weeks earlier, she’d already won bronze in slopestyle after crashing hard on her second run, hurting her quad, and telling herself at the top of the final run: “I just need to land one more.”
She did.
Megan grew up in Parry Sound, a town of about 7,000 on the shore of Georgian Bay. She’s a graduate of Parry Sound High School. As a kid, she was focused on gymnastics and figure skating — she loved flipping and spinning. At 14, her brother suggested she try freestyle skiing. She was hooked immediately, quit everything else, and joined a local team. Within three years, she was on the Canadian national team. In her first season on the World Cup circuit, she won the slopestyle Crystal Globe as the top-ranked skier in the world. She was 18.
By 25, her résumé reads like fiction: two Olympic medals (gold in big air, bronze in slopestyle), four World Championship medals, seven Winter X Games medals, 11 World Cup podiums, and four World Cup victories.
When she’s not on a mountain, she’s back in Parry Sound — on the water, wakeboarding, and spending time with friends. On February 28, 2026, the town threw her a homecoming celebration at the Stockey Centre, followed by a street party on James Street. Thousands showed up.
Parry Sound has a way of producing champions. Bobby Orr grew up here. Now Megan Oldham has put the town on the world stage again — this time, 60 feet in the air.
Photo: https://www.instagram.com/megan.oldhamm/
