In what may be the first time in Canadian sport’s history, three current World Champions and an Olympic gold medal winner will be competing at a National Championship in Calgary later this week.

Olympic gold medallist and dual moguls World Champion (and four-time defending World Cup champion) Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, AB (now living in Montreal); moguls World Champion Kristi Richards from Summerland, BC; and men’s mogul World Champion Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau of Drummondville, Quebec highlight the field at the Canada Post National Freestyle Championships at Canada Olympic Park starting Thursday.

When you add names like Veronika Bauer, the 2001 aerials World Champion; current World Cup champion and 2005 World Champion aerialist Steve Omischl; and the rest of the Nations’ Cup winning Canada Post National Freestyle Ski Team; and the best of the next generation of Canadian freestylers – this makes for an unprecedented opportunity to see so many successful Canadian athletes in one place at one time.

Aerial, half-pipe, moguls and dual mogul competitions are scheduled over four days:

Thursday: Half-pipe competition (7:00 p.m.)

Friday: Mogul competition (finals at 1:00 p.m.)

Saturday: Aerial competition (12:15 p.m.)

Sunday: Dual Mogul competition (finals at 1:00 p.m.)

“The team has had an encouraging season,