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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.

Athlete Nationality
Maxim Burov Olympic Athletes from Russia
Jia Zongyang China
Anton Kushnir Belarus
Maxim Gustik Belarus
Qi Guangpu China
Oleksandr Abramenko Ukraine
Ilia Burov Olympic Athletes from Russia
Olivier Rochon Canada
Lewis Irving Canada
Jonathon Lillis United States
Mac Bohonnon United States
Naoya Tabara Japan
Wang Xindi China
Liu Zhongqing China
Stanislau Hladchenko Belarus
Pavel Krotov Olympic Athletes from Russia
Eric Loughran United States
David Morris Australia
Stanislav Nikitin Olympic Athletes from Russia
Dimitri Isler Switzerland
Mischa Gasser Switzerland
Noe Roth Switzerland
Nicolas Gygax Switzerland
Lloyd Wallace Great Britain
Ildar Badrutdinov Kazakhstan

Summary[]

Qualification[]

Qualification 1 Results
Rank Nat. Name Score
1 United States Jonathon Lillis 127.44
2 China Qi Guangpu 126.70
3 China Jia Zongyang 126.55
4 Belarus Stanislau Hladchenko 126.11
5 Olympic Athletes from Russia Pavel Krotov 124.89
6 Canada Olivier Rochon 124.34
7 Switzerland Dimitri Isler 123.98
8 Olympic Athletes from Russia Ilia Burov 123.98
9 Ukraine Oleksandr Abramenko 123.01
10 China Wang Xindi 121.24
11 Belarus Anton Kushnir 120.80
12 Olympic Athletes from Russia Maxim Burov 117.65
13 Switzerland Noe Roth 116.06
14 Switzerland Mischa Gasser 113.72
15 Australia David Morris 112.83
16 China Liu Zhongqing 107.08
17 Japan Naoya Tabara 103.98
18 Belarus Maxim Gustik 92.92
19 Kazakhstan Ildar Badrutdinov 89.18
20 Switzerland Nicolas Gygax 88.29
21 Canada Lewis Irving 87.17
22 United States Eric Loughran 86.28
23 United States Mac Bohonnon 85.97
24 Great Britain Lloyd Wallace 73.06
25 Olympic Athletes from Russia Stanislav Nikitin 70.59
Qualification 2 Results
Rank Nat. Name Qual. 1 Qual. 2
1 Olympic Athletes from Russia Ilia Burov 123.98 126.55
2 Australia David Morris 112.83 124.89
3 Switzerland Dimitri Isler 123.98 88.94
4 Ukraine Oleksandr Abramenko 123.01 123.08
4 China Liu Zhongqing 107.08 123.08
6 Switzerland Mischa Gasser 113.72 121.72
7 Belarus Anton Kushnir 120.80 121.27
8 China Wang Xindi 121.24 96.38
9 Olympic Athletes from Russia Maxim Burov 117.65 116.37
10 Switzerland Noe Roth 116.06 116.64
11 United States Mac Bohonnon 85.97 112.39
12 Olympic Athletes from Russia Stanislav Nikitin 70.59 111.06
13 Japan Naoya Tabara 103.98 78.73
14 Great Britain Lloyd Wallace 73.06 100.03
15 Kazakhstan Ildar Badrutdinov 89.18 94.47
16 Belarus Maxim Gustik 92.92 89.14
17 Switzerland Nicolas Gygax 88.29 88.92
18 Canada Lewis Irving 87.17 78.73
19 United States Eric Loughran 86.28 72.40

Finals[]

Final 1 Results
Rank Nat. Name Score
1 China Qi Guangpu 127.44
2 Olympic Athletes from Russia Pavel Krotov 126.11
3 Ukraine Oleksandr Abramenko 125.67
4 Canada Olivier Rochon 125.67
5 Belarus Stanislau Hladchenko 123.01
6 Olympic Athletes from Russia Ilia Burov 122.13
7 United States Jonathon Lillis 121.68
8 China Liu Zhongqing 119.47
9 China Jia Zongyang 118.55
10 Australia David Morris 111.95
11 Switzerland Mischa Gasser 99.12
12 Switzerland Dimitri Isler 97.79
Final 2 Results
Rank Nat. Name Score
1 China Jia Zongyang 128.76
2 Canada Olivier Rochon 128.05
3 Belarus Stanislau Hladchenko 126.70
4 Ukraine Oleksandr Abramenko 125.79
5 Olympic Athletes from Russia Pavel Krotov 124.89
6 Olympic Athletes from Russia Ilia Burov 123.53
7 China Qi Guangpo 122.17
8 United States Jonathon Lillis 95.47
9 China Liu Zhongqing 94.57
Final 3 Results
Rank Nat. Name Score
1 Ukraine Oleksandr Abramenko 128.51
2 China Jia Zongyang 128.05
3 Olympic Athletes from Russia Ilia Burov 122.17
4 Olympic Athletes from Russia Pavel Krotov 103.17
5 Canada Olivier Rochon 98.11
6 Belarus Stanislau Hladchenko 92.61

Results[]

Result Athlete Nationality
Gold Oleksandr Abramenko Ukraine
Silver Jia Zongyang China
Bronze 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
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