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| Freestyle skiing at the XXVIII Winter Universiade | |
|---|---|
 Ski cross | |
| Venue | Shymbulak |
| Dates | 30 January – 7 February |
Freestyle skiing at the 2017 Winter Universiade was held at the Shymbulak Ski Resort in Almaty from 30 January to 7 February 2017.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerials |  Li Zhonglin | 97.99 |  Artslom Bashlakou | 90.94 | Guo Ziming | 86.31 |
| Moguls |  Dmitriy Reiherd | 79.94 |  Sergei Shimbuev | 79.11 | Pavel Kolmakov | 76.95 |
| Dual Moguls | Dmitriy Reiherd | Sergei Shimbuev | Pavel Kolmakov | |||
| Ski cross |  Jiří Čech | Kirill Merenkov |  Enrico Fromm | |||
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerials | Zhu Yingying | 64.09 | Zhibek Arapbayeva | 60.84 | Zhanbota Aldabergenova | 60.48 |
| Moguls | Yuliya Galysheva | 73.80 | Anastasiia Pervushina | 62.13 |  Katharina Ramsauer | 52.05 |
| Dual Moguls | Yuliya Galysheva | Elizaveta Bezgodova | Katharina Ramsauer | |||
| Ski cross | Anna Antonova | Mayya Averyanova | Ekaterina Maltseva | |||
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Aerials | Kazakhstan II Zhanbota Aldabergenova Baglan Inkarbek | 167.05 | China I Xu Nuo Shi Haitao | 113.02 | China II Zhu Yingying Guo Ziming | 87.77 |
* Host nation (Kazakhstan)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kazakhstan* | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 |  China | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 |  Russia | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 |  Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |  Belarus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  Austria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 |  Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | |
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