Birk Ruud won the Beijing Gaming’s’ men’s freestyle winter sports large air occasion, which made its Winter Olympics launching.


The Norwegian’s two-run rating of 187.75 verified to be the most effective in the 12-person field, with the United States’ Colby Stevenson (183.00) and Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut (181.00) taking silver and also bronze, respectively.

Each of the 12 finalists had 3 runs, with the top 2 outcomes integrating to function as their utmost score.

Here’s a consider the outcomes.

Order of Finish

1. Birk Ruud (Norway): 187.75

2. Colby Stevenson (USA): 183.00

3. Henrik Harlaut (Sweden): 181.00

4. Oliwer Magnusson (Sweden): 178.25

5. Leonardo Donaggio (Italy): 172.00

6. Javier Lliso (Spain): 171.50

7. Jesper Tjader (Sweden): 170.25

8. Alexander Hall (United States): 160.75

9. Evan McEachran (Canada): 115.50

10. Christian Nummedal (Norway): 110.50

11. Mac Forehand (USA): 80.25

12. Tormod Frostad (Norway): 58.50

Notes

Thirty-one skiers joined the qualifying round, with the area obtaining whittled down to 12.

Ruud ended up initially in certifying, as well as he continued to establish the bar in the finals. He posted the single-best specific operate on his initial go-around, publishing 95.75.

Ruud complied with that up with 92 points in his 2nd run, and his third and also final run ended up being moot after he generated the gold-medal-winning 187.75-point outcome.

The 21-year-old has actually gained four X Games medals in big air (2 gold, two silver). He additionally took silver in slopestyle at the 2019 Globe Championships. Now he has an Olympic gold medal on his resume.

Stevenson conquered a tough very first run (34.75) to upload back-to-back runs over 90 points (91.75, 91.25) to rise onto the 2nd area on the platform.

Stevenson has currently made his 2nd silver medal in a significant event, having won second at the 2021 Globe Championships in slopestyle.

Both Ruud as well as Stevenson experienced personal hardships before this factor.

Ruud’s dad died 10 months earlier from cancer.

Stevenson endured numerous distressing head and also neck injuries after a car crash in May 2016:

“Stevenson ruined his head in 30 areas, his neck was ‘crushed like an accordion,’ together with a broken eye outlet and also ribs. He was positioned in a medically-induced coma for three days,” per OlympicTalk last December.

Yet both shined in the competition’s Olympic launching.

The 30-year-old Harlaut rounded out the platform. He was the competition’s most regular skier, acting as the just one to upload scores of 80 or more factors on each of his three runs. In fact, Harlaut’s “worst run,” his first, resulted in an 86. He complied with up with 90 points in his 2nd run as well as 91 for the 3rd.

The Swede is an eight-time X Gamings gold medalist, with six of those honors occurring in the big air competitors. He likewise won silver at the 2019 Globe Championships in large air.

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Last Updated: 9 Feb 2022