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McRae Williams

American freestyle skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ22915433
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McRae Williams (born October 23, 1990) is an American freestyle skier who competes internationally.

He competed for the United States at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where he won a gold medal in Slopestyle. McRae represented the United States in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, where he finished 15th.

During the summer, Williams can be found at Mt. Hood, Oregon, where he hosts a Takeover Session at Windells Camp.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-10-23. For this dossier, McRae, Williams and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from McRae Williams” 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.