Marcus
Kleveland
Norway
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Snowboarding
Date of birth | 25 April 1999 |
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Place of birth | Lillehammer, Norway |
Age | 26 |
Nationality | Norway |
Career start | 2013 |
Disciplines | Snowboard Slopestyle / Snowboard Big Air |
Marcus Kleveland is almost as good at freestyle skiing as he is on a snowboard. He was already doing Double Corks at the age of 11, setting the bar with the first Triple Cork when he was 13 – and is now one of the biggest names in the game.
His most famous moment to date took place on a purpose-built kicker in Vierli, Norway. Kleveland familiarised himself with the landing before finally pulling off the elusive trick. On landing the Triple Cork, he joined the likes of Torstein Horgmo, Mark McMorris and a handful of others who’ve stomped the Triple. Since then he’s pulled a Backside Quad Cork 1800° at the Stubai Zoo Prime Park Sessions, a pre-season gathering on Austria’s Stubai Glacier, to become the youngest member of an exclusive club with only Billy Morgan and Max Parrot as other members.
On his Winter X Games debut in January 2017 he won gold in Slopestyle and silver in Big Air, where he landed the first-ever Quad Cork in competition. He followed that in February with third place at Air + Style LA to take home the overall Air + Style tour title, before suffering a serious knee injury that put him out of action for a considerable time.
In 2021 he claimed another X Games gold with victory in the Big Air competition and just a few months later added to his trophy haul with first place in the Slopestyle event at the World Championships in Aspen, USA. He then rounded off the season with victory in Silvaplana, Switzerland, to secure the Slopestyle World Cup title and the overall Park and Pipe crown.
The following year saw Kleveland score more big X Games results, with first place in Big Air and second place in Slopestyle.
There was more success over the following years as Kleveland won gold in the Big Air competition at the X Games in Aspen and then claimed victory in Slopeestyle at the FIS Freestyle Skiing & Snowboard World Championship in Bakuriani, Georgia.
Kleveland’s home mountain is Dombås, in Norway, and when the snow melts, he doesn’t stop – he enjoys skating, MotoX, trampolining and biking, as well as squeezing in a bit of surfing when he can.
Marcus Kleveland gets slushy at at Spring Session in Dombås
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Taking a breather between runs
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First laps deep in the Japanese backcountry
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Getting ready to go big
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