Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's big air

The men's big air competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (qualification) and 9 February (final), at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing.^[1] This will be the inaugural freestyle skiing men's big air competition at the Olympics. Birk Ruud of Norway became the Olympic champion, Colby Stevenson of the United States won silver, and Henrik Harlaut of Sweden bronze. For each of them, this was the first Olympic medal.

Men's big air at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle skiing
Venue	Big Air Shougang, Beijing
Date	7, 9 February
Competitors	31 from 13 nations
Winning points	187.75
Medalists
Birk Ruud  Norway Colby Stevenson  United States Henrik Harlaut  Sweden
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Gu Ailing Eileen on her first run at Women's Freeski Big Air Qualification

At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Both were won by Matěj Švancer, who was followed by Alex Hall in the ranking. Oliwer Magnusson is the 2021 world champion. Andri Ragettli is the 2021 X-Games winner.

Qualification

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 30 athletes qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points on the FIS Points List on 17 January 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event or at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships 2021 in either big air or slopestyle. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.^[2]

Results

Qualification

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Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Notes
1	5	4	Birk Ruud	Norway	94.50	50.50	93.25	187.75	Q
2	3	1	Alex Hall	United States	87.00	90.75	89.50	180.25	Q
3	8	7	Oliwer Magnusson	Sweden	88.00	89.25	84.00	177.25	Q
4	19	17	Henrik Harlaut	Sweden	93.00	83.50	42.00	176.50	Q
5	4	2	Colby Stevenson	United States	83.75	90.50	56.00	174.25	Q
6	17	29	Christian Nummedal	Norway	92.25	77.25	79.25	171.50	Q
7	24	22	Tormod Frostad	Norway	90.00	81.25	42.00	171.25	Q
8	6	25	Mac Forehand	United States	77.75	92.00	79.00	171.00	Q
9	25	26	Javier Lliso	Spain	90.25	80.50	79.50	170.75	Q
10	30	16	Leonardo Donaggio	Italy	90.25	70.25	80.25	170.50	Q
11	20	30	Evan McEachran	Canada	81.75	88.50	39.75	170.25	Q
12	13	24	Jesper Tjäder	Sweden	34.75	91.75	78.25	170.00	Q
13	15	21	Édouard Therriault	Canada	83.50	42.00	84.50	168.00
14	2	3	Andri Ragettli	Switzerland	89.75	78.00	20.75	167.75
15	7	14	Antoine Adelisse	France	79.50	66.00	83.75	163.25
16	23	12	Ben Barclay	New Zealand	81.00	78.25	84.50	162.75
17	9	18	Fabian Bösch	Switzerland	81.00	80.75	22.50	161.75
18	21	10	Finn Bilous	New Zealand	73.75	68.75	82.00	155.75
19	12	31	Ferdinand Dahl	Norway	12.00	72.50	77.50	150.00
20	18	13	Max Moffatt	Canada	83.00	64.00	61.00	147.00
21	29	19	Daniel Bacher	Austria	75.00	56.75	69.00	144.00
22	14	15	Nick Goepper	United States	78.25	49.50	21.75	127.75
23	11	9	Kim Gubser	Switzerland	15.25	79.75	41.50	121.25
24	27	6	Hugo Burvall	Sweden	47.25	55.25	46.00	101.25
25	26	8	Colin Wili	Switzerland	77.50	18.75	20.75	98.25
26	1	5	Matěj Švancer	Austria	61.75	27.75	25.50	89.50
27	31	20	He Jinbo	China	45.25	36.75	49.00	85.75
28	22	28	Thibault Magnin	Spain	41.25	21.75	38.50	79.75
29	28	11	Simo Peltola	Finland	49.75	41.75	72.00	72.00
30	16	27	James Woods	Great Britain	27.50	26.50	32.25	59.75
31	10	23	Teal Harle	Canada	26.50	24.25	20.25	46.75

Final

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Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total
	5	12	Birk Ruud	Norway	95.75	92.00	69.00	187.75
	4	8	Colby Stevenson	United States	34.75	91.75	91.25	183.00
	19	9	Henrik Harlaut	Sweden	86.00	90.00	91.00	181.00
4	8	10	Oliwer Magnusson	Sweden	87.50	79.00	90.75	178.25
5	30	3	Leonardo Donaggio	Italy	91.00	81.00	17.25	172.00
6	25	4	Javier Lliso	Spain	51.25	89.00	82.50	171.50
7	13	1	Jesper Tjäder	Sweden	77.25	78.25	92.00	170.25
8	3	11	Alex Hall	United States	68.25	92.50	27.00	160.75
9	20	2	Evan McEachran	Canada	93.00	22.50	11.50	115.50
10	17	7	Christian Nummedal	Norway	26.00	93.00	17.50	110.50
11	6	5	Mac Forehand	United States	60.75	19.50	42.00	80.25
12	24	6	Tormod Frostad	Norway	25.50	14.00	33.00	58.50

References

1. Minji Seo (2021-06-16). "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-12-24.
2. "Qualification System for Xxiv Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Freestyle Skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
3. "Qualification results" (PDF).
4. "Final results" (PDF).