Charlotte's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Freestyle Skiing
Event: Moguls
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: Winning my first World Cup at the Olympic test event
Year Born: 2005
About Charlotte
Charlotte Wilson will make her Olympic Games debut at Milano Cortina 2026 in moguls and will get to share that honour with her younger sister Abbey, who is also an Olympic debutant in snowboard cross.
Charlotte is a talented skier who won the dual moguls Olympic test event in March 2025, a day after being named the International Ski and Snowboard Federation Rookie of the Year. She will turn 21 at the Games, the day after the women’s moguls competition concludes at Livigno.
Raised in Jindabyne and on skis from the age of three, Charlotte gravitated naturally to the bumps. She progressed through local pathways, earned selection to the Australian Development Team, and became a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 2022, beginning her international apprenticeship on the North American Cup tour.
Her senior breakthrough came at home in 2024. Building consistency across the domestic winter, she won an Australian New Zealand Cup event at Perisher in late August, momentum she carried into her first northern‑winter campaign (FIS data; Snow Australia). Charlotte made her World Cup debut at Ruka, Finland, on 30 November 2024, placing 20th, before announcing herself a week later at Idre Fjäll in Sweden, where she qualified sixth and recorded her first top‑10 in a World Cup final.
The upward trend continued into January. At Waterville Valley, USA, Charlotte reached her first World Cup super‑final and finished fifth, an early statement that she belonged among the world’s best. At her first senior World Championships in Engadin, Switzerland, she qualified strongly and advanced to the final eight, placing seventh moguls in the medal round, another significant milestone for a rookie year. She was 15th in the dual moguls.
Charlotte’s season‑ending flourish at Livigno sealed a remarkable rookie campaign. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation confirmed her Rookie of the Year honour at the finals, before she stunned the field 24 hours later with dual moguls gold at the Olympic test event, Australia’s newest World Cup winner in women’s moguls.
Across singles and duals, she closed the 2024/25 season ranked 12th overall on the World Cup moguls standings, Australia’s best rookie placing in recent memory.
Charlotte has had a strong 2025-26 season. Following three podiums in the Australia New Zealand Cup in August, she headed overseas for the World Cup season. At Ruka in Finland, she placed 16th and then 13th back-to-back in the moguls. At Val St. Come, Canada, she was 17th in moguls and 27th in dual moguls. At the final World Cup before the Olympics, at Waterville Valley USA, she qualified 10th in the moguls before placing 13th in the finals. She is ranked 16th in the world going into her first Olympic Games, on the course where she has beaten stars of the sport before.
Off the hill, Charlotte balances elite sport with tertiary study. Backed by an Athlete Education Scholarship through the Australian Institute of Sport, she is studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, which helps her manage the travel and training load while progressing toward life beyond sport.
Her progress was also recognised domestically when she was named Junior Athlete of the Year at the 2025 Snow Australia Awards. In October 2025, Charlotte was selected as a Tier 2 recipient in the 2026 Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship and Mentoring Program.
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