At just 22 years old, Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham has etched her name into the record books. Competing in the women’s big air final at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Oldham landed a historic quad cork 1260 — a trick never before completed in Olympic competition — to claim gold.
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The score: 94.75. The reaction: stunned silence, then deafening applause.
Oldham’s winning run featured three full rotations (1080 degrees) plus an extra 180, totalling 1260 degrees of spin, combined with four off-axis “corked” flips. The degree of difficulty was so high that even her closest competitors stopped to watch.
“I’ve been dreaming of that trick for two years,” Oldham told CBC Sports after securing the gold medal. “To land it here, at the Olympics, in the final run… I still can’t believe it.”
Oldham, who hails from Parry Sound, Ontario, has been a rising star in freeskiing since her breakout performance at the 2022 Beijing Games, where she finished fourth. Over the next four years, she methodically worked with her coaches to add amplitude and rotational complexity to her repertoire. The quad cork 1260 became her signature move — one she had landed successfully in practice but never under Olympic pressure.
