Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's slopestyle

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Men's slopestyle
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg
Venue Genting Snow Park,
Zhangjiakou
Date14, 16 February
Competitors29 from 11 nations
Winning points90.01
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Alex Hall Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Nick Goepper Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Jesper Tjäder Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
  2018
2026  

The men's slopestyle competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February (qualification) and 16 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1] Alex Hall of the United States won the event, which was his first Olympic medal. The 2018 silver medalist, Nick Goepper, also of the United States, won silver again. Jesper Tjäder of Sweden was third, also his first Olympic medal.

The 2018 champion is Øystein Bråten, but he stopped competing and was not available to defend the title. [2] The bronze medalist, Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, did not qualify. At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, there were only three races held before the Olympics, and Fabian Bösch was leading the rankings. Goepper is the 2021 X-Games winner, and Andri Ragettli is the 2021 world champion.

Qualification

A total of 30 athletes qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points on the FIS Points List on January 17, 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event or at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships 2021 in either big air or slopestyle. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event. [3]

Results

Qualification

Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers moved on to the medal round. [4]

RankBibOrderNameCountryRun 1Run 2BestNotes
113 Andri Ragettli Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 76.9885.0885.08Q
244 Birk Ruud Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 83.9640.9583.96Q
3913 Nick Goepper Flag of the United States.svg  United States 82.5180.2382.51Q
489 Jesper Tjäder Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 59.1579.3879.38Q
5617 Alex Hall Flag of the United States.svg  United States 79.1340.6079.13Q
622 Colby Stevenson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 78.0135.8078.01Q
72121 Ben Barclay Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 76.0077.7177.71Q
81611 Kim Gubser Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 76.71DNS76.71Q
92718 Matěj Švancer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 37.2574.8674.86Q
1055 Fabian Bösch Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 53.8374.5374.53Q
111226 Max Moffatt Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 74.0635.0674.06Q
121425 Oliwer Magnusson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 73.4639.1673.46Q
13156 Édouard Therriault Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 70.4023.7570.40
142023 Javier Lliso Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 21.9569.1669.16
151712 Finn Bilous Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 68.0132.8568.01
16729 Ferdinand Dahl Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 35.4167.6167.61
172828 Daniel Bacher Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 63.6016.2163.60
182924 Leonardo Donaggio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 63.4842.8863.48
192219 Colin Wili Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 54.4538.0354.45
2031 Mac Forehand Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.2137.8051.21
211827 Henrik Harlaut Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 37.7048.1648.16
223116 He Jinbo Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 42.8320.8542.83
231115 Christian Nummedal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 41.4816.0341.48
241322 Evan McEachran Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 40.9033.7040.90
252610 Tormod Frostad Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 22.1138.0538.05
262431 Teal Harle Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 36.0533.8136.05
27308 Simo Peltola Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 35.0129.2535.01
282320 Hugo Burvall Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 33.4028.5833.40
292514 Thibault Magnin Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 33.0614.7833.06
107 James Woods Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain DNS
1930 Antoine Adelisse Flag of France.svg  France

Final

RankBibOrderNameCountryRun 1Run 2Run 3Best [5]
Gold medal icon.svg68 Alex Hall Flag of the United States.svg  United States 90.0186.3831.4190.01
Silver medal icon.svg910 Nick Goepper Flag of the United States.svg  United States 45.7586.4853.4586.48
Bronze medal icon.svg89 Jesper Tjäder Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 85.3516.1137.3385.35
4112 Andri Ragettli Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 78.2083.5033.9583.50
5411 Birk Ruud Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 26.9847.9379.3379.33
653 Fabian Bösch Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 78.0551.4613.9878.05
727 Colby Stevenson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 77.4141.7355.1877.41
8274 Matěj Švancer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 73.0531.8649.8373.05
9122 Max Moffatt Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 47.1865.3170.4070.40
10216 Ben Barclay Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 29.1629.7867.4067.40
11141 Oliwer Magnusson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 23.7522.7540.4640.46
165 Kim Gubser Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland DNS

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