Discipline: Freestyle Moguls
Olympic Participation: Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014
Achievements: Gold Moguls, Olympic Winter Games 2006, Silver Moguls, Olympic Winter Games 2010, Gold Dual Moguls World Championships 2007, Silver Moguls World Championships 2007, Bronze Moguls World Championships 2005, four-time Crystal Globe winner
Medal awarded in: 2021

Begg-Smith is Australia’s most successful mogul skier, having won Australia’s first Olympic Mogul medal, Gold in Torino 2006, and following it up with a silver in Vancouver 2010.

He has won 3 World Championships medals, with a gold in Dual Moguls in 2007, silver in Moguls in the same event, and bronze in 2005. 

His impressive career also included 29 World podiums with 18 victories. He is a four-time Crystal Globe winner.

Begg-Smith, along with his brother Jason, moved to Australia at age 16 and trained with the Australian Mogul Team.

There is no doubt that he inspired the current mogul’s skiers in Australia to reach their potential as they watched him win Gold in Torino and later in his career, train alongside him in Australia.

Among others, Brodie Summers credits Begg Smith’s Gold at Torino for his reason to pursue elite mogul skiing reminiscing “I remember seeing that and seeing how dominant his performance was and how effortless it looked at the same time and decided then and there that that was what I wanted to do as well”.

Equally Matt Graham shares the same sentiments “That was a big turning point for me. I was involved in mogul skiing at the time and showed some talented prospects and it was then that I decided that I wanted to go to the Olympics”.

Begg-Smith is one of only five Australians to win a gold medal in a Winter Games and the youngest to win an Olympic Gold in the history of men's freestyle mogul skiing.