| Men's aerials at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Iizuna Kogen Ski Area | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 18 February 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 25 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 255.64 | ||||||||||||
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The men's aerials event in freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano took place from 16 to 18 February at Iizuna Kogen Ski Area. [1] [2]
The top 12 advanced to the final. [1]
| Rank | Name | Country | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | Notes |
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| 1 | Dmitry Dashchinsky |  Belarus | 118.66 | 130.38 | 249.04 | Q |
| 2 | Britt Swartley |  United States | 126.60 | 120.48 | 247.08 | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandr Mikhaylov |  Russia | 120.28 | 125.93 | 246.21 | Q |
| 4 | Eric Bergoust | United States | 121.04 | 111.57 | 232.61 | Q |
| 5 | Andy Capicik |  Canada | 116.59 | 110.80 | 227.39 | Q |
| 6 | Stanislav Kravchuk |  Ukraine | 113.05 | 113.60 | 226.65 | Q |
| 7 | Jeff Bean | Canada | 111.17 | 113.69 | 224.86 | Q |
| 8 | Nicolas Fontaine | Canada | 113.25 | 106.35 | 219.60 | Q |
| 9 | Aleksey Grishin | Belarus | 108.49 | 109.35 | 217.84 | Q |
| 10 | Christian Rijavec |  Austria | 97.90 | 114.61 | 212.51 | Q |
| 11 | Aleš Valenta |  Czech Republic | 88.69 | 116.81 | 205.50 | Q |
| 12 | Sébastien Foucras |  France | 111.02 | 89.25 | 200.27 | Q |
| 13 | Vasily Vorobyov | Belarus | 113.03 | 86.26 | 199.29 | |
| 14 | Freddy Romano |  Italy | 90.12 | 105.26 | 195.38 | |
| 15 | Mariano Ferrario | United States | 111.17 | 75.81 | 186.98 | |
| 16 | Jean-Damien Climonet | France | 84.55 | 102.26 | 186.81 | |
| 17 | Ou Xiaotao |  China | 79.97 | 103.87 | 183.84 | |
| 18 | Aleksandr Tkachenko | Belarus | 88.35 | 90.11 | 178.46 | |
| 19 | Yuriy Stetsko | Ukraine | 89.46 | 82.00 | 171.46 | |
| 20 | Kevin Harbut |  Great Britain | 82.46 | 85.86 | 168.32 | |
| 21 | Matt Chojnacki | United States | 81.65 | 83.43 | 165.08 | |
| 22 | Miha Gale |  Slovenia | 102.03 | 52.65 | 154.68 | |
| 23 | Kazuaki Ando |  Japan | 46.77 | 88.35 | 135.12 | |
| 24 | Serhiy But | Ukraine | 65.25 | 45.36 | 110.61 | |
| - | Jonathan Sweet |  Australia | DNF | - | - |
| Rank | Name | Country | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | Notes |
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 | Eric Bergoust | United States | 133.05 | 122.59 | 255.64 | |
 | Sébastien Foucras | France | 126.15 | 122.64 | 248.79 | |
 | Dmitry Dashchinsky | Belarus | 118.86 | 121.93 | 240.79 | |
| 4 | Aleš Valenta | Czech Republic | 115.22 | 117.03 | 232.25 | |
| 5 | Britt Swartley | United States | 121.70 | 109.91 | 231.61 | |
| 6 | Aleksandr Mikhaylov | Russia | 111.17 | 118.81 | 229.98 | |
| 7 | Christian Rijavec | Austria | 112.79 | 114.81 | 227.60 | |
| 8 | Aleksey Grishin | Belarus | 100.84 | 120.15 | 220.99 | |
| 9 | Stanislav Kravchuk | Ukraine | 107.35 | 112.59 | 219.94 | |
| 10 | Nicolas Fontaine | Canada | 123.71 | 93.22 | 216.93 | |
| 11 | Jeff Bean | Canada | 118.66 | 92.11 | 210.77 | |
| 12 | Andy Capicik | Canada | 90.55 | 118.46 | 209.01 |
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