Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Freestyle Skiing
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
VenueCypress Mountain
DatesFebruary 13–25
No. of events6
Competitors173 from 27 nations

The freestyle skiing competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Cypress Mountain. The events took place between the 13 and 25 February 2010, and included a new event for these Olympics, ski cross.

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada (CAN)2103
2 United States (USA)1124
3 Australia (AUS)1102
4 Belarus (BLR)1001
 Switzerland (SUI)1001
6 China (CHN)0123
7 Norway (NOR)0112
8 Austria (AUT)0101
9 France (FRA)0011
Totals (9 entries)66618

Men's Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Moguls
details
Alexandre Bilodeau
 Canada
26.75 Dale Begg-Smith
 Australia
26.58 Bryon Wilson
 United States
26.08
Aerials
details
Alexei Grishin
 Belarus
248.41 Jeret Peterson
 United States
247.21 Liu Zhongqing
 China
242.53
Ski cross
details
Michael Schmid
 Switzerland
Andreas Matt
 Austria
Audun Grønvold
 Norway

Women's Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Moguls
details
Hannah Kearney
 United States
26.63 Jennifer Heil
 Canada
25.69 Shannon Bahrke
 United States
25.43
Aerials
details
Lydia Lassila
 Australia
214.74 Li Nina
 China
207.23 Guo Xinxin
 China
205.22
Ski cross
details
Ashleigh McIvor
 Canada
Hedda Berntsen
 Norway
Marion Josserand
 France

Events

Six freestyle skiing events was held at Vancouver 2010:

Men Women
Aerials Aerials
Moguls Moguls
Ski cross Ski cross

Competition schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Day Date Start Finish Event Phase
Day 2 Saturday 2010-02-13 16:30 17:30 Women's moguls Qualification
19:30 20:30 Women's moguls Final
Day 3 Sunday 2010-02-14 14:30 15:30 Men's moguls Qualification
17:30 18:30 Men's moguls Final
Day 9 Saturday 2010-02-20 10:00 11:30 Women's aerials Qualification
Day 10 Sunday 2010-02-21 9:15 10:15 Men's ski cross Qualification
12:15 13:30 Men's ski cross Final
Day 11 Monday 2010-02-22 18:00 19:30 Men's aerials Qualification
Day 12 Tuesday 2010-02-23 10:30 11:30 Women's ski cross Qualification
13:00 14:15 Women's ski cross Final
Day 13 Wednesday 2010-02-24 19:30 20:30 Women's aerials Final
Day 14 Thursday 2010-02-25 18:00 19:00 Men's aerials Final

Qualification

For the six events, there are a maximum 180 athletes allowed to compete. This includes a maximum of 30 in moguls, 25 in aerials, and 35 in ski cross, applicable for both genders. No nation can have more than 18 skiers with maximum of ten men or ten women per specific nation. For each event, no nation can enter more than four skiers per individual event.

Skiers are qualified if they have placed in the top 30 in an FIS World Cup event of FIS World Championships in the event concerned. A minimum of 100 FIS points in the respective event. Host nation Canada is expected to enter a skier in all events. If no skier meets the qualification standards, they can enter one skier per event.

Quota allocation will be given using the World Ranking List (WRL) for the twelve-month period of World Cup Standings from the 2008–09 and 2009-10 Freestyle World Cup and the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2009. It will be assigned one slot per skier from the top the WRL downwards. When a nation has the maximum four skiers per event, the next eligible nation on the WRL will be given a slot until the maximum total per event in moguls, aerials, and ski cross per gender has been reached.

In the case at nation is given more than 18 skiers, it is up the nation to select the team of a maximum of 18 skiers by 25 January 2010. Once quota slots are allocated by the FIS and the national entries confirmed, a reallocation of unused slots per event will be made by the FIS to the next eligible nation on the WRL for quota allocation in the respective event and gender. This process started on 18 January 2010 and will run until 28 January 2010. Deadline to VANOC is 1 February 2010.

Participating nations

Nations [1] Moguls Men Moguls Ladies Aerials Men Aerials Ladies Ski Cross Men Ski Cross Ladies Total (men + ladies)
 Australia 2 1 1 4 1 2 11 (4 + 7)
 Austria 0 1 0 0 4 4 9 (4 + 5)
 Belarus 0 0 4 2 0 0 6 (4 + 2)
 Canada 4 3 3 1 3 4 18 (10 + 8)
 China 0 0 4 4 0 0 8 (4 + 4)
 Czech Republic 1 3 0 1 2 0 7 (3 + 4)
 Denmark 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (0 + 1)
 Finland 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 (4 + 0)
 France 4 0 0 0 4 3 11 (8 + 3)
 Great Britain 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 (0 + 3)
 Germany 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 (2 + 3)
 Italy 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 (0 + 1)
 Jamaica 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 (1 + 0)
 Japan 4 4 0 0 1 1 10 (5 + 5)
 Kazakhstan 2 3 0 1 0 0 5 (2 + 6)
 New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (0 + 1)
 Norway 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 (2 + 4)
 Poland 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (0 + 1)
 Romania 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (0 + 1)
 Russia 4 4 2 0 1 1 12 (7 + 5)
 Slovenia 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 (1 + 2)
 South Korea 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 (0 + 1)
 Spain 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (0 + 1)
 Switzerland 0 0 4 2 4 4 14 (8 + 6)
 Sweden 2 0 0 0 4 2 8 (6 + 2)
 Ukraine 0 0 3 3 0 0 6 (3 + 3)
 United States 4 4 4 4 2 0 18 (10 + 8)
Total: 27 NOCs 30 27 25 23 33 35 173

References

  1. ^ FIS Quota list January 2010 (pending re-allocation) Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 25 January 2010.
  • May 2009 FIS Qualification for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 22 January 2010. Freestyle skiing is on pages 11–13.
  • Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12

External links

  • Ottawa Citizen: "Moguls glossary" - 2010 Winter Games
  • CanWest News Service: "Ski Cross glossary" Archived 2017-02-17 at the Wayback Machine - 2010 Winter Games
  • Official Results Book – Freestyle Skiing
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