The men's big air competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 and 24 February 2018 at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1][2] The event was making its Olympic debut.
| Men's big air at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 21 February (qualification) 24 February (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 34 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 174.25 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Due to a broken shoulder caused by a crash in training for the slopestyle, Niek van der Velden was not able to compete.[3][4]
Qualification edit
The top 40 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified (for both big air and slopestyle, the rankings were combined). This meant only a maximum of 40 could qualify across both events. A maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event (in either big air or slopestyle) or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea, did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met.[5]
Results edit
Key edit
Heat 1 edit
| Rank | Order | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Maxence Parrot |  Canada |
89.25 | 92.50 | 92.50 | Q |
| 2 | 15 | Niklas Mattsson |  Sweden |
53.75 | 90.00 | 90.00 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Kyle Mack |  United States |
87.25 | 88.75 | 88.75 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Chris Corning | United States |
85.00 | 88.00 | 88.00 | Q |
| 5 | 11 | Michael Schärer |  Switzerland |
87.00 | 44.00 | 87.00 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Redmond Gerard | United States |
82.00 | 85.00 | 85.00 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Ståle Sandbech |  Norway |
84.75 | 41.25 | 84.75 | |
| 8 | 17 | Rowan Coultas |  Great Britain |
81.00 | 84.50 | 84.50 | |
| 9 | 8 | Yuri Okubo |  Japan |
84.25 | 44.25 | 84.25 | |
| 10 | 13 | Rene Rinnekangas |  Finland |
43.75 | 83.00 | 83.00 | |
| 11 | 1 | Jamie Nicholls | Great Britain |
30.00 | 81.25 | 81.25 | |
| 12 | 9 | Alberto Maffei |  Italy |
77.50 | 36.25 | 77.50 | |
| 13 | 16 | Nicolas Huber | Switzerland |
76.75 | 44.50 | 76.75 | |
| 14 | 14 | Lee Min-sik |  South Korea |
68.75 | 72.25 | 72.25 | |
| 15 | 2 | Seppe Smits |  Belgium |
50.00 | 59.25 | 59.25 | |
| 16 | 18 | Clemens Millauer |  Austria |
39.25 | 47.00 | 47.00 | |
| 10 | Moritz Thönen | Switzerland |
DNS | ||||
| 12 | Petr Horák |  Czech Republic
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Heat 2 edit
| Rank | Order | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Carlos Garcia Knight |  New Zealand |
88.75 | 97.50 | 97.50 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Jonas Bösiger | Switzerland |
96.00 | 35.25 | 96.00 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Mark McMorris | Canada |
89.00 | 95.75 | 95.75 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Torgeir Bergrem | Norway |
94.25 | 59.50 | 94.25 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Sébastien Toutant | Canada |
91.00 | 45.00 | 91.00 | Q |
| 6 | 12 | Billy Morgan | Great Britain |
87.50 | 90.50 | 90.50 | Q |
| 7 | 16 | Tyler Nicholson | Canada |
87.25 | 89.25 | 89.25 | |
| 8 | 18 | Peetu Piiroinen | Finland |
43.50 | 87.25 | 87.25 | |
| 9 | 1 | Roope Tonteri | Finland |
86.50 | 47.50 | 86.50 | |
| 10 | 3 | Marcus Kleveland | Norway |
84.25 | 46.00 | 84.25 | |
| 11 | 17 | Vlad Khadarin |  Olympic Athletes from Russia |
83.75 | 79.25 | 83.75 | |
| 12 | 5 | Kalle Järvilehto | Finland |
83.25 | 44.75 | 83.25 | |
| 13 | 13 | Ryan Stassel | United States |
39.50 | 76.25 | 76.25 | |
| 14 | 10 | Stef Vandeweyer | Belgium |
61.00 | 29.50 | 61.00 | |
| 15 | 14 | Matías Schmitt |  Argentina |
51.75 | 23.00 | 51.75 | |
| 16 | 15 | Anton Mamaev | Olympic Athletes from Russia |
29.00 | 42.75 | 42.75 | |
| 17 | 11 | Hiroaki Kunitake | Japan |
37.25 | 36.75 | 37.25 | |
| 18 | 9 | Sebbe De Buck | Belgium |
33.50 | 30.25 | 33.50 |
Final edit
The final was held on 24 February 2018.[9]
| Rank | Order | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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4 | Sébastien Toutant | Canada |
84.75 | 89.50 | JNS | 174.25 | |
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7 | Kyle Mack | United States |
82.00 | 86.75 | JNS | 168.75 | |
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2 | Billy Morgan | Great Britain |
JNS | 82.50 | 85.50 | 168.00 | |
| 4 | 5 | Chris Corning | United States |
74.25 | 78.75 | JNS | 153.00 | |
| 5 | 1 | Redmond Gerard | United States |
74.75 | JNS | 68.25 | 143.00 | |
| 6 | 3 | Michael Schärer | Switzerland |
JNS | 62.25 | 78.50 | 140.75 | |
| 7 | 6 | Torgeir Bergrem | Norway |
88.50 | 42.50 | JNS | 131.00 | |
| 8 | 10 | Jonas Bösiger | Switzerland |
77.50 | JNS | 40.75 | 118.25 | |
| 9 | 11 | Maxence Parrot | Canada |
85.00 | JNS | 32.75 | 117.75 | |
| 10 | 8 | Mark McMorris | Canada |
40.50 | JNS | 32.00 | 72.50 | |
| 11 | 12 | Carlos Garcia Knight | New Zealand |
JNS | JNS | 54.25 | 54.25 | |
| 12 | 9 | Niklas Mattsson | Sweden |
36.00 | DNS | DNS | 36.00 |
References edit
- ^ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2017-11-05. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ Start list
- ^ "Valse start Nederland: snowboarder Van der Velden haakt af". NOS. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
- ^ "Einde Spelen voor snowboarder van der Velden door breuk na val". 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Snowboarding" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ Qualification Heat 1 results
- ^ Qualification Heat 2 results
- ^ Qualification results
- ^ Final results