Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's ski cross explained

Event:	Ski Cross Men
Games:	2010 Winter
Venue:	Cypress Bowl Ski Area in Cypress Provincial Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dates:	21 February
Competitors:	33
Nations:	15
Gold:	Michael Schmid
Goldnoc:	SUI
Silver:	Andreas Matt
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Audun Grønvold
Bronzenoc:	NOR
Next:	2014

The men's ski cross event in freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, took place on 21 February at the Cypress Bowl Ski Area in the Cypress Provincial Park, West Vancouver.

Results

Qualification

The qualification was held at 09:15.^[1]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Notes
	4			1:12.53	Q
	6			1:12.89	Q
	13			1:12.91	Q
	5			1:13.13	Q
	14			1:13.23	Q
	2			1:13.44	Q
	31			1:13.46	Q
	1			1:13.49	Q
	27			1:13.71	Q
10	11			1:13.74	Q
11	7			1:13.75	Q
12	33			1:13.85	Q
13	20			1:13.90	Q
14	17			1:13.91	Q
14	16			1:13.91	Q
16	8			1:14.10	Q
17	29			1:14.17	Q
18	12			1:14.35	Q
19	9			1:14.44	Q
20	25			1:14.54	Q
21	32			1:14.66	Q
21	23			1:14.66	Q
23	22			1:14.73	Q
24	15			1:14.91	Q
25	10			1:14.98	Q
26	21			1:15.03	Q
27	19			1:15.12	Q
28	18			1:15.22	Q
29	24			1:15.88	Q
30	26			1:15.91	Q
31	3			1:16.18	Q
32	30			1:16.34	Q
	28			DNF

Elimination round

The top two finishers from each heat advance to the next round. In the semifinals the first two ranked competitors of each heat proceed to the Big Final, third and fourth ranked competitors of each heat proceed to the Small Final.^{[2] [3]}

1/8 round

Heat 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	1			Q
2	32			Q
3	24
4	16			DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	9			Q
2	25			Q
3	8
4	17			DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	11			Q
2	27			Q
3	6
4	19

Heat 4

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	13			Q
2	4			Q
3	29
4	21

Heat 5

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	14			Q
2	30			Q
3	22
4	3			DNF

Heat 6

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	5			Q
2	12			Q
3	20
4	28

Heat 7

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	7			Q
2	10			Q
3	26
4	18

Heat 8

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	2			Q
2	23			Q
3	15
4	31

Quarterfinals

Heat 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	1			Q
2	25			Q
3	9
4	32

Heat 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	13			Q
2	4			Q
3	11
4	27

Heat 3

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	5			Q
2	12			Q
3	14
4	30

Heat 4

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	2			Q
2	7			Q
3	23
4	10

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	1			Q
2	4			Q
3	25
4	13

Heat 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
1	5			Q
2	2			Q
3	12
4	7

Finals

Small Final

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
5	13
6	25
7	12
8	7			DNF

Big Final

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Notes
	1
	4
	5
4	2			DNF

Notes and References

1. http://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/FS/8033/2010FS8033QRL.pdf Qualification results
2. http://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/FS/8033/2010FS8033SXL.pdf Bracket
3. http://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/FS/8033/2010FS8033FRL.pdf Final results