Australia have delivered a sensational performance in their first-ever Olympic Mixed Aerials Team event, finishing fourth in the final competition at the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park at Milano Cortina 2026.
As the only nation fielding two females and one male, the Australians put down some of their best jumps of the Games to qualify third for the four-team final, before ultimately placing fourth.
Article courtesy olympics.com.au / Images Copyright Chris Hocking
Abbey Willcox opened Australia’s qualification round with a strong back full-double full (81.78) before Women’s Aerials silver medallist
Danielle Scott bettered her career-best score of 117.19 – set three days earlier in the women’s Final 1. Scott’s back full-full-full scored 120.20 as the top female jump of the competition.
Reilly Flanagan rounded out the impressive qualifying performance with a back double full-full to score 87.06.
The Flying Kangaroos returned to the top of the hill for the final alongside China, Switzerland and the United States. While Willcox and Scott both performed beautiful airs, they were unable to replicate their landings from qualification, scoring 64.86 and 95.30 respectively.
Flanagan was the final Aussie to jump, embracing the pressure and delivering the best competition jump of his career, executing a back double-full-full for a personal best score of 95.88 to take Australia’s combined total to 256.04.
As the only nation fielding two females and one male, the Australians put down some of their best jumps of the Games to qualify third for the four-team final, before ultimately placing fourth.
Article courtesy olympics.com.au / Images Copyright Chris Hocking
Abbey Willcox opened Australia’s qualification round with a strong back full-double full (81.78) before Women’s Aerials silver medallist
Danielle Scott bettered her career-best score of 117.19 – set three days earlier in the women’s Final 1. Scott’s back full-full-full scored 120.20 as the top female jump of the competition.
Reilly Flanagan rounded out the impressive qualifying performance with a back double full-full to score 87.06.
The Flying Kangaroos returned to the top of the hill for the final alongside China, Switzerland and the United States. While Willcox and Scott both performed beautiful airs, they were unable to replicate their landings from qualification, scoring 64.86 and 95.30 respectively.
Flanagan was the final Aussie to jump, embracing the pressure and delivering the best competition jump of his career, executing a back double-full-full for a personal best score of 95.88 to take Australia’s combined total to 256.04.
Flanagan said putting down a PB in an Olympic final was the “best feeling in my life.”
“I was just super happy when I landed that and just so proud of this team, too.
“This experience has been incredible for me, a lot of learnings… but with these experiences I’ll be able to hopefully grow a lot more and carry on through the next four years,” he said.
Scott also said she was thrilled to build on her individual silver medal performance and put down an even better jump in the Teams event.
“That was pretty special. I think it's a little bit of redemption for dragging my hands on that individual jump [in the women’s super final],” she said.
“I just wanted to put everything out there again. I was way more nervous today, I just wanted to do the best for this team.
“To be in a final at the Olympics is huge for us, we really put everything on the line… I'm just proud of these guys. We did a good job.”
Team USA claimed gold, landing three exceptional jumps for a combined score of 325.35. Switzerland took silver with 296.91, highlighted by male skiers Noe Roth and Pirmin Werner landing two of the most difficult jumps in the sport. China finished in third, and while their two male skiers were unable to cleanly land their back double full-double full-full jumps, with a 5.1 degree of difficulty (DD), their scores remained very competitive and the combined total was enough to edge in front of Australia.
Scott explained that the DD of both male skiers is what gave China their advantage in the final, despite Australia executing cleaner landings.
“We don't have the degree of difficulty that all the other nations do, we are still a young team, you know, Reilly just started this sport a few years ago,” she said.
“A landing is obviously important, it's 30% of the score, but with that higher degree of difficulty, it just factors in that way.
“This is setting the pathway for the future and I'm pretty excited to see where we can go with this team now.”
Knowing the Aussies are at a competitive disadvantage as the only team with two female skiers, Scott put the call out there to encourage more men to take up the sport.
“I'm so proud of these guys, because we literally put it all out there, and we'll come back stronger, we'll have more DD and hopefully some more guys on the team if anyone's interested!”
“I was just super happy when I landed that and just so proud of this team, too.
“This experience has been incredible for me, a lot of learnings… but with these experiences I’ll be able to hopefully grow a lot more and carry on through the next four years,” he said.
Scott also said she was thrilled to build on her individual silver medal performance and put down an even better jump in the Teams event.
“That was pretty special. I think it's a little bit of redemption for dragging my hands on that individual jump [in the women’s super final],” she said.
“I just wanted to put everything out there again. I was way more nervous today, I just wanted to do the best for this team.
“To be in a final at the Olympics is huge for us, we really put everything on the line… I'm just proud of these guys. We did a good job.”
Team USA claimed gold, landing three exceptional jumps for a combined score of 325.35. Switzerland took silver with 296.91, highlighted by male skiers Noe Roth and Pirmin Werner landing two of the most difficult jumps in the sport. China finished in third, and while their two male skiers were unable to cleanly land their back double full-double full-full jumps, with a 5.1 degree of difficulty (DD), their scores remained very competitive and the combined total was enough to edge in front of Australia.
Scott explained that the DD of both male skiers is what gave China their advantage in the final, despite Australia executing cleaner landings.
“We don't have the degree of difficulty that all the other nations do, we are still a young team, you know, Reilly just started this sport a few years ago,” she said.
“A landing is obviously important, it's 30% of the score, but with that higher degree of difficulty, it just factors in that way.
“This is setting the pathway for the future and I'm pretty excited to see where we can go with this team now.”
Knowing the Aussies are at a competitive disadvantage as the only team with two female skiers, Scott put the call out there to encourage more men to take up the sport.
“I'm so proud of these guys, because we literally put it all out there, and we'll come back stronger, we'll have more DD and hopefully some more guys on the team if anyone's interested!”
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