Alex Ferreira: Hotdog Hans and the Halfpipe Sweep of 2023–24
alex ferreira completed a historic 2023–24 season by becoming the first halfpipe skier to win every competition he entered, a run that included five world cups, X Games Aspen, and the Dew Tour. The streak crystallized a period of dominance that matters now as the sport heads toward the next Olympic cycle.
Alex Ferreira's 2023–24 sweep
Ferreira’s unbeaten run in 2023–24 is unique in halfpipe competition history: he swept five world cups and added wins at X Games Aspen and the Dew Tour. That sequence is described in recent coverage as the first time a halfpipe skier entered every event in a season and won them all. The accomplishment marks a rare level of consistency across different event formats and judging panels.
Medals and career milestones
alex ferreira’s competitive record includes Olympic and X Games podiums. He is a two-time Olympic medalist, having won a silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2018 and a bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2022. At X Games Aspen he claimed gold in 2019, 2020 and 2024. Ferreira began skiing at age three, moved into competitive freeskiing by age 10, and transitioned from moguls to halfpipe early in his career.
Persona and training off the pipe
Off the halfpipe, Ferreira cross-trains across a wide range of activities and cultivates a public persona. He enjoys trampolining, hiking, biking, running, traveling and woodworking, and uses cross-country skiing, rollerblading, mountain biking, cycling, trampoline and yoga as part of his fitness work. He also runs a YouTube channel where he dresses up and skis as an older man known as Hotdog Hans, blending performance and outreach outside competition.
His athletic roots are family-based: his father, Marcelo, was a professional soccer player and his mother, Colleen, is a long-time marathon runner. Ferreira began competitive freeskiing after his mother enrolled him in an aerials event when he was a child, an early nudge that helped set his path toward elite competition.
Analysis and forward look: Ferreira’s sweep and recent X Games golds are concrete indicators of peak form. With the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 scheduled to stage freestyle skiing events in Livigno, Italy, if Ferreira sustains this level of performance into the next Olympic cycle he would enter that window as a leading contender. The combination of technical consistency in judged events and a broad cross-training regimen suggests a foundation for maintaining competitive readiness, while his public-facing projects like Hotdog Hans help preserve visibility beyond contest results.
Unclear at this time is how Ferreira will structure his competition calendar going forward and which events he will prioritize in the run-up to Milano Cortina 2026. Observers will watch world cup entries and major-season appearances as the clearest indicators of whether his unbeaten stretch can be extended or replicated in Olympic competition.
