The men's aerials of Freestyle Skiing 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 17-18 February 2018 in the Phoenix Snow Park. With 25 athletes competing, the event was won by Oleksandr Abramenko from Ukraine, with Jia Zongyang from China taking the silver medal and Ilia Burov from Olympic Athletes from Russia taking bronze.
Format[]
The competition exists out of two separate rounds. The qualification consists out of two rounds. In the first round of the qualifications, every athlete receives a score based on a single performance, after which the six best scores qualify for the final rounds. The remaining athletes go down the slope once more to receive another score. The six best scores (in either run) advance to the final as well.
The final consists out of three rounds of a single run, with after every round a selected amount of athletes advancing to the next round. After three rounds (with 12, 9, and 6 athletes, respectively), the winner is decided based on the best run in the third round of the final.
Preview[]
Twenty-five athletes qualified for the event and the man to beat was Mikael Kingsbury. Having won a record amount of World Cups, as well as a recent 13 consecutive wins streak, he was ready to upgrade his silver medal of 2014 to the next level. His biggest challenger might be Dmitriy Reikherd, the veteran who had finished on the podium on seven occasions in the previous season, although the only man to have beaten Kingsbury was Japanese Ikuma Horishima, who won the gold medal at the World Championships. Several outsiders, who had shown great performances during the previous season, were Matt Graham, Sho Endo, and Bradley Wilson.
Summary[]
Qualification[]
Finals[]
Final 3 Results | |||||
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Rank | Nat. | Name | Score | ||
1 | Oleksandr Abramenko | 128.51 | |||
2 | Jia Zongyang | 128.05 | |||
3 | Ilia Burov | 122.17 | |||
4 | Pavel Krotov | 103.17 | |||
5 | Olivier Rochon | 98.11 | |||
6 | Stanislau Hladchenko | 92.61 |
Results[]
Result | Athlete | Nationality |
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Oleksandr Abramenko | Ukraine | |
Jia Zongyang | China | |
Ilia Burov | Olympic Athletes from Russia | |
4 | Pavel Krotov | Olympic Athletes from Russia |
5 | Olivier Rochon | Canada |
6 | Stanislau Hladchenko | Belarus |
7 | Qi Guangpu | China |
8 | Jonathon Lillis | United States |
9 | Liu Zhongqing | China |
10 | David Morris | Australia |
11 | Mischa Gasser | Switzerland |
12 | Dimitri Isler | Switzerland |
13 | Anton Kushnir | Belarus |
14 | Wang Xindi | China |
15 | Maxim Burov | Olympic Athletes from Russia |
16 | Noe Roth | Switzerland |
17 | Mac Bohonnon | United States |
18 | Stanislav Nikitin | Olympic Athletes from Russia |
19 | Naoya Tabara | Japan |
20 | Lloyd Wallace | Great Britain |
21 | Ildar Badrutdinov | Kazakhstan |
22 | Maxim Gustik | Belarus |
23 | Nicolas Gygax | Switzerland |
24 | Lewis Irving | Canada |
25 | Eric Loughran | United States |
2018 Winter Olympic Games | |
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Freestyle Skiing 2018 | |
← 2014 | 2022 → |
Men | Women |
Moguls | Moguls |
Aerials | Aerials |
Ski Cross | Ski Cross |
Ski Halfpipe | Ski Halfpipe |
Ski Slopestyle | Ski Slopestyle |