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| Venue | Iizuna Kogen Ski Area | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 8–11 February 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 33 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 26.93 | ||||||||||||
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| Aerials | men | women |
| Moguls | men | women |
The men's moguls event in freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano took place from 8 to 11 February at Iizuna Kogen Ski Area. [1] [2]
The top 16 advanced to the final. [1]
| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Notes |
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 | Jonny Moseley |  United States | 26.93 | |
 | Janne Lahtela |  Finland | 26.00 | |
 | Sami Mustonen | Finland | 25.76 | |
| 4 | Jean-Luc Brassard |  Canada | 25.52 | |
| 5 | Lauri Lassila | Finland | 25.43 | |
| 6 | Jesper Rönnbäck |  Sweden | 25.32 | |
| 7 | Ryan Johnson | Canada | 25.25 | |
| 8 | Stéphane Rochon | Canada | 25.01 | |
| 9 | Kurre Lansburgh | Sweden | 24.71 | |
| 10 | Alexander Wilson | United States | 24.68 | |
| 11 | Julien Regnier-Lafforgue |  France | 24.64 | |
| 12 | Fabrice Ougier | France | 24.22 | |
| 13 | Gota Miura |  Japan | 23.06 | |
| 14 | Patrik Sundberg | Sweden | 23.00 | |
| 15 | Daigo Hara | Japan | 12.13 | |
| - | Thony Hemery | France | DNF |
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