Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics

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Freestyle skiing
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Genting Snow Park
  • Big Air Shougang
    • Dates3–19 February
    No. of events13 (6 men, 6 women, 1 mixed)
    Competitors284 from 25 nations
    ← 2018
    2026 →
    Freestyle skiing at the
    2022 Winter Olympics
    Qualification
    Aerialsmenmixedwomen
    Big airmenwomen
    Halfpipemenwomen
    Mogulsmenwomen
    Ski crossmenwomen
    Slopestylemenwomen

    Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou and Big Air Shougang in Beijing, China. The events were held between 3 and 19 February 2022. A total of 13 freestyle skiing events were held.[1]

    In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added three events to the Olympic program: big air for men and women, along with a mixed team aerials event.[2][3] A total of 284 quota spots (142 per gender) were distributed to the sport, a decline of 4 from the 2018 Winter Olympics.[4] A total of 13 events were contested, six for men, six for women and one mixed.[5]

    Qualification

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

    A maximum of 284 quota spots are available to athletes at the games. A maximum of 30 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 16 men or 16 women. If a NOC has qualified enough athletes to enter the mixed team event in aerials then they may extend their total to 32 athletes. Each event has a specific quota amount allocated to it.[6] The athlete quota per event is listed below.

    Event Men Women Minimum FIS points
    Aerials 25 25 80.00
    Big air/Slopestyle 30 30 50.00
    Halfpipe 25 25 50.00
    Moguls 30 30 80.00
    Ski cross 32 32 80.00
    284 quotas 142 142
    • Big air and slopestyle have a combined event quota.

    Competition schedule

    The following were the planned competition schedule for all thirteen events.[1]

    Sessions that include the event finals are shown in bold.

    All times are (

    UTC+8
    ).

    Date Time Event
    3 February 18:00 Women's moguls
    19:45 Men's moguls
    5 February 19:30 Men's moguls
    6 February 19:30 Women's moguls
    7 February 9:30 Women's big air
    13:30 Men's big air
    8 February 10:00 Women's big air
    9 February 11:00 Men's big air
    10 February 19:00 Mixed team aerials
    14 February 10:00 Women's ski slopestyle
    15:00 Women's aerials
    19:00 Women's aerials
    15 February 9:30 Women's ski slopestyle
    12:30 Men's ski slopestyle
    19:00 Men's aerials
    16 February 9:30 Men's ski slopestyle
    19:00 Men's aerials
    17 February 9:30 Women's ski halfpipe
    11:30 Women's ski cross
    12:30 Men's ski halfpipe
    15:10 Women's ski cross
    18 February 9:30 Women's ski halfpipe
    11:45 Men's ski cross
    15:55 Men's ski cross
    19 February 9:30 Men's ski halfpipe

    Medal summary

    China led all nations in the medal count with four gold medals, while the United States achieved the most medals overall, with eight.

    Medal table

      *   Host nation (China)

    RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
    1 China*4206
    2 United States2428
    3 Switzerland2125
    4 Sweden2024
    5 Australia1001
     New Zealand1001
     Norway1001
    8 Canada0325
    9 Belarus0101
     France0101
     Ukraine0101
    12 ROC0033
    13 Estonia0011
     Germany0011
     Japan0011
    Totals (15 entries)13131440

    Men's events

    Event Gold Silver Bronze
    Aerials
    details     		Qi Guangpu
     China    		 129.00 Oleksandr Abramenko
     Ukraine    		 116.50 Ilya Burov
     ROC    		 114.93
    Big air
    details     		Birk Ruud
     Norway    		 187.75 Colby Stevenson
     United States    		 183.00 Henrik Harlaut
     Sweden    		 181.00
    Halfpipe
    details     		Nico Porteous
     New Zealand    		 93.00 David Wise
     United States    		 90.75 Alex Ferreira
     United States    		 86.75
    Slopestyle
    details     		Alex Hall
     United States    		 90.01 Nick Goepper
     United States    		 86.48 Jesper Tjäder
     Sweden    		 85.35
    Moguls
    details     		Walter Wallberg
     Sweden    		 83.23 Mikaël Kingsbury
     Canada    		 82.18 Ikuma Horishima
     Japan    		 81.48
    Ski cross
    details     		Ryan Regez
     Switzerland     		Alex Fiva
     Switzerland     		Sergey Ridzik
     ROC

    Women's events

    Event Gold Silver Bronze
    Aerials
    details     		Xu Mengtao
     China    		 108.61 Hanna Huskova
     Belarus    		 107.95 Megan Nick
     United States    		 93.76
    Big air
    details     		Eileen Gu
     China    		 188.25 Tess Ledeux
     France    		 187.50 Mathilde Gremaud
     Switzerland    		 182.50
    Halfpipe
    details     		Eileen Gu
     China    		 95.25 Cassie Sharpe
     Canada    		 90.75 Rachael Karker
     Canada    		 87.75
    Slopestyle
    details     		Mathilde Gremaud
     Switzerland    		 86.56 Eileen Gu
     China    		 86.23 Kelly Sildaru
     Estonia    		 82.06
    Moguls
    details     		Jakara Anthony
     Australia    		 83.09 Jaelin Kauf
     United States    		 80.28 Anastasia Smirnova
     ROC    		 77.72
    Ski cross[note]
    details     		Sandra Näslund
     Sweden     		Marielle Thompson
     Canada     		Daniela Maier
     Germany
    Fanny Smith
     Switzerland

    Mixed

    Event Gold Silver Bronze
    Team aerials
    details     		 United States
    Ashley Caldwell
    Christopher Lillis
    Justin Schoenefeld    		 338.34  China
    Xu Mengtao
    Jia Zongyang
    Qi Guangpu    		 324.22  Canada
    Marion Thénault
    Miha Fontaine
    Lewis Irving    		 290.98
    Fanny Smith of Switzerland, the 2018 bronze medalist, initially crossed the line in third place and thought she had won the bronze medal. Daniela Maier of Germany finished fourth. However, following a 10-minute review by race judges, Smith was penalised for a clash with Maier, so at the awards ceremony on 17 February 2022 Maier was awarded the bronze.[7]

    On 26 February 2022, after the end of the Olympic Games, following an appeal from Fanny Smith, the FIS Appeals Commission made the decision to overturn the FIS Jury decision.[8] As a result of winning the appeal, Smith was promoted to third place, while Maier officially finished in fourth place, which was reflected on the FIS website.[9]

    FIS has no right to make a decision on the return and redistribution of medals, as this issue is in the exclusive competence of the IOC, therefore, in its decision, the FIS Appeals Commission did not mention any words about the medals and their redistribution, and the IOC has the last word in this issue.[10] On 13 December 2022, the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided both competitors will be awarded duplicate bronze medals and share joint third place.[11] At December 2022 the IOC has updated the data on its website.[12]

    Participating nations

    26 nations sent freestyle skiiers to compete in the events, including the

    IOC's designation of Russian Olympic Committee, were scheduled to participate. The numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses.[13]

    References

    1. ^ a b "Schedule". BOCOG. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
    2. International Ski Federation
      (FIS). 18 July 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
    3. ^ Zaccardi, Nick (18 July 2018). "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics add seven new events". www.olympics.nbcsports.com/. NBC. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
    4. ^ "Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 Event programme and athlete quota" (PDF). www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
    5. ^ "Official Programme of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022" (PDF). www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 13 February 2022.
    6. International Ski Federation
      . Retrieved 12 August 2021.
    7. ^ "Swede Naeslund breaks Canada's dominance to win women's free ski cross gold at Beijing 2022". News.cn. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
    8. International Ski Federation (FIS). 26 February 2022. Archived from the original
      on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
    9. International Ski Federation
      (FIS). 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
    10. ^ "Dispute medal". News in Germany. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
    11. ^ "Court of Arbitration for Sport Media Release" (PDF). 13 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
    12. IOC
      . Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    13. International Ski Federation. Archived from the original
      on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.

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