Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's big air explained

Event:	Men's big air
Games:	2022 Winter
Venue:	Big Air Shougang, Beijing
Date:	7, 9 February
Competitors:	31
Nations:	13
Win Value:	187.75
Win Label:	Winning points
Gold:	Birk Ruud
Goldnoc:	NOR
Silver:	Colby Stevenson
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Henrik Harlaut
Bronzenoc:	SWE
Next:	2026

The men's big air competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (qualification) and 9 February (final), at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing.^[1] This will be the inaugural freestyle skiing men's big air competition at the Olympics. Birk Ruud of Norway became the Olympic champion, Colby Stevenson of the United States won silver, and Henrik Harlaut of Sweden bronze. For each of them, this was the first Olympic medal.

At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Both were won by Matěj Švancer, who was followed by Alex Hall in the ranking. Oliwer Magnusson is the 2021 world champion. Andri Ragettli is the 2021 X-Games winner.

Qualification

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – 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.^[2]

Results

Qualification

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Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Notes
1	5	4			94.50	50.50	93.25	187.75	Q
2	3	1			87.00	90.75	89.50	180.25	Q
3	8	7			88.00	89.25	84.00	177.25	Q
4	19	17			93.00	83.50	42.00	176.50	Q
5	4	2			83.75	90.50	56.00	174.25	Q
6	17	29			92.25	77.25	79.25	171.50	Q
7	24	22			90.00	81.25	42.00	171.25	Q
8	6	25			77.75	92.00	79.00	171.00	Q
9	25	26			90.25	80.50	79.50	170.75	Q
10	30	16			90.25	70.25	80.25	170.50	Q
11	20	30			81.75	88.50	39.75	170.25	Q
12	13	24			34.75	91.75	78.25	170.00	Q
13	15	21			83.50	42.00	84.50	168.00
14	2	3			89.75	78.00	20.75	167.75
15	7	14			79.50	66.00	83.75	163.25
16	23	12			81.00	78.25	84.50	162.75
17	9	18			81.00	80.75	22.50	161.75
18	21	10			73.75	68.75	82.00	155.75
19	12	31			12.00	72.50	77.50	150.00
20	18	13			83.00	64.00	61.00	147.00
21	29	19			75.00	56.75	69.00	144.00
22	14	15			78.25	49.50	21.75	127.75
23	11	9			15.25	79.75	41.50	121.25
24	27	6			47.25	55.25	46.00	101.25
25	26	8			77.50	18.75	20.75	98.25
26	1	5			61.75	27.75	25.50	89.50
27	31	20			45.25	36.75	49.00	85.75
28	22	28			41.25	21.75	38.50	79.75
29	28	11			49.75	41.75	72.00	72.00
30	16	27			27.50	26.50	32.25	59.75
31	10	23			26.50	24.25	20.25	46.75

Final

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Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total
	5	12			95.75	92.00	69.00	187.75
	4	8			34.75	91.75	91.25	183.00
	19	9			86.00	90.00	91.00	181.00
4	8	10			87.50	79.00	90.75	178.25
5	30	3			91.00	81.00	17.25	172.00
6	25	4			51.25	89.00	82.50	171.50
7	13	1			77.25	78.25	92.00	170.25
8	3	11			68.25	92.50	27.00	160.75
9	20	2			93.00	22.50	11.50	115.50
10	17	7			26.00	93.00	17.50	110.50
11	6	5			60.75	19.50	42.00	80.25
12	24	6			25.50	14.00	33.00	58.50

Notes and References

1. Web site: Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9 . Minji Seo. 2021-06-16. 2021-12-24.
2. Web site: Qualification System for Xxiv Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Freestyle Skiing. International Ski Federation (FIS). 29 January 2022.
3. Web site: Qualification results.
4. Web site: Final results.