Freestyle Skiing 2022/Mixed team event

Mixed team event
General information
Sport	Freestyle Skiing 2022
Date	10 February 2022
Competitors	6 teams
Venue	Genting Snow Park
Medalists
	United States
	China
	Canada

The mixed team event of Freestyle Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February 2022 in the Genting Snow Park. With 6 teams competing, the event was won by the team from United States, with China taking the silver medal and Canada taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two separate rounds. In the first round, all competitors performed a aerials run, with scores of both competitors counting towards the final ranking. The team with the highest combined score is the winner of the event.

Preview

Six teams qualified for the inaugural edition of the event, with China and the United States as the favorites for the title, both with a team full of members from the top 10 of the world rankings. Switzerland also had a strong team on the male side, with both members featured in the top 4 of the world rankings, with Canada as another big medal contender. Belarus and ROC completed the field, as two big potential outsiders in a small field.

Miha Fontaine was the youngest competitor in the field at the age of 18, as one of two athletes born in the 21st century. He was two years younger than Alexandra Baer, with another two-year gap to Noe Roth, Marion Thenault, and Pirmin Werner, also making Switzerland the youngest team collectively, followed by Canada. Maksim Gustik was the oldest competitor in the field at the age of 33, followed by the entire Chinese team of Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu, and Jia Zongyang. Despite the event making it's first Olympic appearance, there were plenty of competitors with previous Olympic experience, including the full Chinese team who were due to start at their fourth edition of the Olympic Games. Ashley Caldwell was also due to make her fourth Olympic Games, followed by Hanna Huskova and Ilia Burov with their third.

Summary

Finals

Final 1 Results
Rank	Team	Points
1	China	336.89
2	United States	330.55
3	Canada	326.94
4	Switzerland	300.62
5	ROC	295.97
6	Belarus	273.67

Final 2 Results
Rank	Team	Points
1	United States	338.34
2	China	324.22
3	Canada	290.98
4	Switzerland	276.01

Results

The United States won the inaugural edition of the event, with Ashley Caldwell winning her first Olympic medal despite top 10 results in 2010 and in 2014. Christopher Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld won gold medals at their Olympic debuts. Jia Zongyang took his third Olympic medal after bronze in 2014 and silver in 2018, with Xu Mengtao winning her second Olympic medal after a silver medal in 2014. Qi Guangpu took his first Olympic medal after finishing seventh in the individual event in 2010 and 2018, and finishing fourth in 2014. Canadians Lewis Irving, Miha Fontaine, and Marion Thenault all won their first Olympic medals, with only Irving having had competed at the Olympic Games prior.

Result	Team
	United States
	China
	Canada
4	Switzerland
5	ROC
6	Belarus