| Men's aerials at the XVII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 21–24 February 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 234.67 | ||||||||||||
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| Freestyle skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Aerials | men | women |
| Moguls | men | women |
The men's aerials event in freestyle skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer took place from 21 to 24 February at Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena. [1] [2]
The top 12 advanced to the final. [1]
| Rank | Name | Country | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | Notes |
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| 1 | Aleksey Parfenkov |  Belarus | 115.70 | 112.79 | 228.49 | Q |
| 2 | Philippe LaRoche |  Canada | 105.00 | 117.65 | 222.65 | Q |
| 3 | Lloyd Langlois | Canada | 106.80 | 114.81 | 221.61 | Q |
| 4 | Trace Worthington |  United States | 117.03 | 104.08 | 221.11 | Q |
| 5 | Richard Cobbing |  Great Britain | 102.03 | 106.51 | 208.54 | Q |
| 6 | Andrew Capicik | Canada | 104.28 | 103.01 | 207.29 | Q |
| 7 | Nicolas Fontaine | Canada | 97.40 | 109.24 | 206.64 | Q |
| 8 | Jean-Marc Bacquin |  France | 96.99 | 106.59 | 203.58 | Q |
| 9 | Kris Feddersen | United States | 104.50 | 94.77 | 199.27 | Q |
| 10 | Andreas Schönbächler |  Switzerland | 99.94 | 96.59 | 196.53 | Q |
| 11 | Mats Johansson |  Sweden | 86.26 | 106.31 | 192.57 | Q |
| 12 | Eric Bergoust | United States | 93.89 | 96.59 | 190.48 | Q |
| 13 | Vasily Vorobyov | Belarus | 98.61 | 90.31 | 188.92 | |
| 14 | Christian Rijavec |  Austria | 101.27 | 84.84 | 186.11 | |
| 15 | Tor Skeie |  Norway | 79.42 | 93.35 | 172.77 | |
| 16 | Serhiy But |  Ukraine | 81.89 | 89.30 | 171.19 | |
| 17 | Michiel de Ruiter |  Netherlands | 81.37 | 87.02 | 168.39 | |
| 18 | Alexis Blanc | France | 74.11 | 88.11 | 162.22 | |
| 19 | Sergey Brener |  Uzbekistan | 72.21 | 87.72 | 159.93 | |
| 20 | Hiroshi Machii |  Japan | 79.62 | 73.91 | 153.53 | |
| 21 | Alessandro Scottà |  Italy | 76.12 | 73.22 | 149.34 | |
| 22 | Sébastien Foucras | France | 55.68 | 88.11 | 143.79 | |
| 23 | Herbert Kolly | Switzerland | 59.94 | 69.16 | 129.10 | |
| 24 | Freddy Romano | Italy | 61.42 | 53.79 | 115.21 |
| Rank | Name | Country | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | Notes |
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 | Andreas Schönbächler | Switzerland | 113.19 | 121.48 | 234.67 | |
 | Philippe LaRoche | Canada | 110.58 | 118.05 | 228.63 | |
 | Lloyd Langlois | Canada | 111.47 | 110.97 | 222.44 | |
| 4 | Andrew Capicik | Canada | 106.71 | 112.36 | 219.07 | |
| 5 | Trace Worthington | United States | 102.57 | 115.62 | 218.19 | |
| 6 | Nicolas Fontaine | Canada | 98.01 | 112.80 | 210.81 | |
| 7 | Eric Bergoust | United States | 98.12 | 112.36 | 210.48 | |
| 8 | Mats Johansson | Sweden | 105.26 | 102.26 | 207.52 | |
| 9 | Jean-Marc Bacquin | France | 108.33 | 88.55 | 196.88 | |
| 10 | Richard Cobbing | Great Britain | 102.22 | 94.36 | 196.58 | |
| 11 | Kris Feddersen | United States | 91.58 | 103.68 | 195.26 | |
| 12 | Aleksey Parfenkov | Belarus | 91.00 | 87.48 | 178.48 |
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