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Maïa Schwinghammer

Canadian freestyle skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ123984235 ↗
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Maïa Schwinghammer (born September 14, 2001) is a Canadian mogul skier. She represented Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Early life

Schwinghammer's first experience of skiing came on Christopher Lake while being pulled behind a snowmobile. Her parents ran her local skiing hill, Mount Blackstrap, during her childhood. She joined the Saskatchewan provincial team at the age of 15, and the national team when she was 17.

Schwinghammer attended Holy Cross High School in Saskatoon.

Career

During the 2024–25 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, Schwinghammer earned her first career World Cup victory on January 31, 2025. She finished the World Cup in third place with 456 points.

Schwinghammer represented Canada at the 2025 FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships and won a bronze medal in the moguls event with 74.92 points.

In January 2026, she was selected to represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maïa Schwinghammer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.