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The men's ski big air of Freestyle Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7-9 February 2022 in the Big Air Shougang. With 31 athletes competing, the event was won by Birk Ruud from Norway, with Colby Stevenson from United States taking the silver medal and Henrik Harlaut from Sweden taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of two separate rounds. Each competitor performs three times in the qualification, with the athletes with the twelve best scores (in either run) advancing to the final. The athletes advancing to the final get another three runs, with the best two scores counting towards the final ranking. The competitor with the highest aggregate score in the best two runs in the final is the winner.

Preview[]

Thirty-one athletes qualified for the inaugural edition of the event with Matej Svancer as the leader of the world rankings and Oliwer Magnusson as the reigning world champion, and plenty of other medal contenders in the field. Edouard Therriault and Kim Gubser won silver and bronze at the most recent world championships, Fabian Boesch and Henrik Harlaut had won gold and silver at the world championships in 2017, and Andri Ragettli, Alexander Hall, and Colby Stevenson were currently ranked in the top 5 of the world rankings. Other potential medal contenders also included Mac Forehand, Antoine Adelisse, Teal Harle, and Birk Ruud.

He Jinbo was the youngest athlete in the field as one of three athletes younger than 18, together with Daniel Bacher and Matej Svancer. Six other athletes were still under the age of 21, though age differences in the field were small, with Henrik Harlaut and James Woods as the oldest competitors at the age of 30. Nicholas Goepper and Jesper Tjader followed at 27, though all four made their third Olympic appearance in Beijing, together with Antoine Adelisse and Fabian Boesch. With the event making its Olympic debut, seventeen out of thirty-one athletes followed with their first Olympic appearance.

Athlete Nationality
Matej Svancer Austria
Andri Ragettli Switzerland
Alexander Hall United States
Colby Stevenson United States
Birk Ruud Norway
Mac Forehand United States
Antoine Adelisse France
Oliwer Magnusson Sweden
Fabian Boesch Switzerland
Teal Harle Canada
Kim Gubser Switzerland
Ferdinand Dahl Norway
Jesper Tjader Sweden
Nicholas Goepper United States
Edouard Therriault Canada
James Woods Great Britain
Christian Nummedal Norway
Max Moffatt Canada
Henrik Harlaut Sweden
Evan McEachran Canada
Finn Bilous New Zealand
Thibault Magnin Spain
Ben Barclay New Zealand
Tormod Frostad Norway
Javier Lliso Spain
Colin Wili Switzerland
Hugo Burvall Sweden
Simo Peltola Finland
Daniel Bacher Austria
Leonardo Donaggio Italy
He Jinbo China

Summary[]

Qualification[]

Qualification Results
Rank Nat. Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3
1 Norway Birk Ruud 94.50 50.50 93.25
2 United States Alexander Hall 87.00 90.75 89.50
3 Sweden Oliwer Magnusson 88.00 89.25 84.00
4 Sweden Henrik Harlaut 93.00 83.50 42.00
5 United States Colby Stevenson 83.75 90.50 56.00
6 Norway Christian Nummedal 92.25 77.25 79.25
7 Norway Tormod Frostad 90.00 81.25 42.00
8 United States Mac Forehand 77.75 92.00 79.00
9 Spain Javier Lliso 90.25 80.50 79.50
10 Italy Leonardo Donaggio 90.25 70.25 80.25
11 Canada Evan McEachran 81.75 88.50 39.75
12 Sweden Jesper Tjader 34.75 91.75 78.25
13 Canada Edouard Therriault 83.50 42.00 84.50
14 Switzerland Andri Ragettli 89.75 78.00 20.75
15 France Antoine Adelisse 79.50 66.00 83.75
16 New Zealand Ben Barclay 81.00 78.25 84.50
17 Switzerland Fabian Boesch 81.00 80.75 22.50
18 New Zealand Finn Bilous 73.75 68.75 82.00
19 Norway Ferdinand Dahl 12.00 72.50 77.50
20 Canada Max Moffatt 83.00 64.00 61.00
21 Austria Daniel Bacher 75.00 56.75 69.00
22 United States Nicholas Goepper 78.25 49.50 21.75
23 Switzerland Kim Gubser 15.25 79.75 41.50
24 Sweden Hugo Burvall 47.25 55.25 46.00
25 Switzerland Colin Wili 77.50 18.75 20.75
26 Austria Matej Svancer 61.75 27.75 25.50
27 China He Jinbo 45.25 36.75 49.00
28 Spain Thibault Magnin 41.25 21.75 38.50
29 Finland Simo Peltola 49.75 41.75 72.00
30 Great Britain James Woods 27.50 26.50 32.25
31 Canada Teal Harle 26.50 24.25 20.25

Final[]

Final Results
Rank Nat. Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3
1 Norway Birk Ruud 95.75 92.00 69.00
2 United States Cody Stevenson 34.75 91.75 91.25
3 Sweden Henrik Harlaut 86.00 90.00 91.00
4 Sweden Oliwer Magnusson 87.50 79.00 90.75
5 Italy Leonardo Donaggio 91.00 81.00 17.25
6 Spain Javier Lliso 51.25 89.00 82.50
7 Sweden Jesper Tjader 77.25 78.25 92.00
8 United States Alexander Hall 68.25 92.50 27.00
9 Canada Evan McEachran 93.00 22.50 11.50
10 Norway Christian Nummedal 26.00 93.00 17.50
11 United States Mac Forehand 60.75 19.50 42.00
12 Norway Tormod Frostad 25.50 14.00 33.00

Results[]

Birk Ruud won the inaugural edition of the ski Big Air at his Olympic debut, following a ski slopestyle gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in 2016. Colby Stevenson made a second debutant on the podium of the ski Big Air, though Henrik Harlaut won his first Olympic medal at his third Olympic appearance. Oliwer Magnusson finished just behind the medals after an 18th place in the ski slopestyle in 2018, with Southern European Leonardo Donaggio and Javier Lliso ranking in the top 6 at their Olympic debuts. Three-time Olympian Jesper Tjader completed the top 7.

Result Athlete Nationality
Gold Birk Ruud Norway
Silver Colby Stevenson United States
Bronze Henrik Harlaut Sweden
4 Oliwer Magnusson Sweden
5 Leonardo Donaggio Italy
6 Javier Lliso Spain
7 Jesper Tjader Sweden
8 Alexander Hall United States
9 Evan McEachran Canada
10 Christian Nummedal Norway
11 Mac Forehand United States
12 Tormod Frostad Norway
13 Edouard Therriault Canada
14 Andri Ragettli Switzerland
15 Antoine Adelisse France
16 Ben Barclay New Zealand
17 Fabian Boesch Switzerland
18 Finn Bilous New Zealand
19 Ferdinand Dahl Norway
20 Max Moffatt Canada
21 Daniel Bacher Austria
22 Nicholas Goepper United States
23 Kim Gubser Switzerland
24 Hugo Burvall Sweden
25 Colin Wili Switzerland
26 Matej Svancer Austria
27 He Jinbo China
28 Thibault Magnin Spain
29 Simo Peltola Finland
30 James Woods Great Britain
31 Teal Harle Canada
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