Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's moguls

The men's moguls event in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia took place on the 10 February at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi.[1]

Men's moguls at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates	10 February 2014
Competitors	29 from 11 nations
Winning score	26.31
Medalists
Alexandre Bilodeau  Canada Mikaël Kingsbury  Canada Alexandr Smyshlyaev  Russia

The defending Olympic is Alexandre Bilodeau, while the defending world champion was Mikaël Kingsbury also of Canada. Bilodeau and Kingsbury took gold and silver, respectively. Alexandr Smyshlyaev of Russia won the bronze medal. Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medalist.[2][3]

Qualification

An athlete must have placed in the top 30 in at a World Cup event after July 2012 or at the 2013 World Championships and a minimum of 80 FIS points. A total of 30 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 4 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee.[4]

Guilbaut Colas of France withdrew after suffering a knee injury, which reduced the field to 29 athletes.[5]

Results

Qualification

In the first qualifying round, the ten best athletes directly qualify for the final. Others compete in the second qualification round.[6]

Qualifying 1

QF — Qualified directly for the Final

QS — Qualified for the Semifinal

Bib — Bib number

DNS — Did Not Start

DNF — Did Not Finish

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Score			Total	Notes
					Turns	Air	Time
1	1	Alexandre Bilodeau	Canada	25.03	12.8	5.70	6.20	24.70	QF
2	2	Mikaël Kingsbury	Canada	25.75	12.5	5.45	5.86	23.81	QF
3	5	Alexandr Smyshlyaev	Russia	25.07	12.5	4.84	6.18	23.52	QF
4	4	Sho Endo	Japan	25.19	12.0	5.26	6.12	23.38	QF
5	7	Marc-Antoine Gagnon	Canada	25.44	11.6	5.30	6.00	22.90	QF
6	12	Philippe Marquis	Canada	25.65	11.2	5.32	5.91	22.43	QF
7	9	Dmitriy Reiherd	Kazakhstan	24.93	11.6	4.02	6.24	21.86	QF
8	6	Bradley Wilson	United States	23.39	10.9	3.81	6.97	21.68	QF
9	28	Brodie Summers	Australia	25.73	10.8	4.89	5.87	21.56	QF
10	10	Matt Graham	Australia	24.36	10.2	4.82	6.51	21.53	QF
11	30	Pavel Kolmakov	Kazakhstan	25.73	11.0	4.53	5.87	21.40
12	38	Aleksey Pavlenko	Russia	24.88	10.2	4.31	6.27	20.78
13	16	Nobuyuki Nishi	Japan	24.98	10.6	3.85	6.22	20.67
14	35	Giacomo Matiz	Italy	26.48	10.7	4.40	5.51	20.61
15	25	Choi Jae-Woo	South Korea	24.61	9.0	5.16	6.40	20.56
16	34	Ludvig Fjällström	Sweden	26.33	10.2	4.60	5.58	20.38
17	32	Per Spett	Sweden	25.05	9.0	5.05	6.19	20.24
18	37	Andrey Volkov	Russia	25.58	10.2	3.90	5.94	20.04
19	11	Dale Begg-Smith	Australia	25.06	9.7	3.86	6.18	19.74
20	27	Jimi Salonen	Finland	24.53	8.9	4.31	6.43	19.64
21	36	Sam Hall	Australia	24.52	8.7	3.65	6.44	18.79
22	21	Anthony Benna	France	24.15	8.8	3.05	6.61	18.46
23	24	Jussi Penttala	Finland	24.86	7.5	4.21	6.28	17.99
24	26	Sergey Volkov	Russia	27.64	3.6	2.20	4.97	10.77
25	3	Patrick Deneen	United States	23.64	1.1	2.41	6.85	10.36
26	29	Arttu Kiramo	Finland	27.18	1.2	2.71	5.18	9.09
	31	Dmitriy Barmashov	Kazakhstan					DNF
	19	Ville Miettunen	Finland					DNF
	33	Benjamin Cavet	France					DNF

Qualifying 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Score			Total	Notes
					Turns	Air	Time
1	3	Patrick Deneen	United States	24.71	11.5	4.53	6.35	22.38	Q
2	25	Choi Jae-Woo	South Korea	26.08	10.9	5.30	5.70	21.90	Q
3	27	Jimi Salonen	Finland	25.26	10.9	4.86	6.09	21.85	Q
4	30	Pavel Kolmakov	Kazakhstan	25.75	11.5	4.34	5.86	21.70	Q
5	37	Andrey Volkov	Russia	25.43	10.6	4.58	6.01	21.19	Q
6	38	Aleksey Pavlenko	Russia	25.61	11.0	4.04	5.92	20.96	Q
7	34	Ludvig Fjällström	Sweden	25.44	9.9	4.60	6.00	20.50	Q
8	16	Nobuyuki Nishi	Japan	25.96	11.0	3.65	5.76	20.41	Q
9	33	Benjamin Cavet	France	25.37	9.4	4.68	6.04	20.12	Q
10	32	Per Spett	Sweden	25.81	9.4	4.88	5.83	20.11	Q
11	35	Giacomo Matiz	Italy	26.64	9.7	3.96	5.44	19.10
12	29	Arttu Kiramo	Finland	26.17	9.1	3.97	5.66	18.73
13	21	Anthony Benna	France	24.24	6.7	3.65	6.57	16.92
14	36	Sam Hall	Australia	27.54	3.4	3.09	5.01	11.50
15	11	Dale Begg-Smith	Australia	28.39	2.3	2.74	4.61	9.35
16	31	Dmitriy Barmashov	Kazakhstan	32.87	0.3	2.41	2.50	5.21
	24	Jussi Penttala	Finland					DNF
	26	Sergey Volkov	Russia					DNF
	19	Ville Miettunen	Finland					DNS

Final

The finals were started at 19:00.[7]

Final 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Score			Total	Notes
					Turns	Air	Time
1	5	Alexandr Smyshlyaev	Russia	25.14	12.7	5.52	6.15	24.37	Q
2	12	Philippe Marquis	Canada	24.58	12.4	5.51	6.41	24.32	Q
3	2	Mikaël Kingsbury	Canada	26.32	12.4	6.32	5.59	24.31	Q
4	7	Marc-Antoine Gagnon	Canada	25.79	11.8	5.81	5.84	23.45	Q
5	9	Dmitriy Reiherd	Kazakhstan	25.21	12.1	4.89	6.11	23.10	Q
6	33	Benjamin Cavet	France	25.85	11.5	5.66	5.81	22.97	Q
7	10	Matt Graham	Australia	24.85	11.4	4.81	6.28	22.49	Q
8	1	Alexandre Bilodeau	Canada	24.78	11.0	5.17	6.32	22.49	Q
9	3	Patrick Deneen	United States	24.67	11.6	4.30	6.37	22.27	Q
10	25	Choi Jae-Woo	South Korea	25.27	10.6	5.43	6.08	22.11	Q
11	30	Pavel Kolmakov	Kazakhstan	25.30	11.0	4.75	6.07	21.82	Q
12	32	Per Spett	Sweden	25.17	10.9	4.78	6.13	21.81	Q
13	28	Brodie Summers	Australia	25.73	11.4	4.51	5.87	21.78
14	16	Nobuyuki Nishi	Japan	24.73	11.4	3.99	6.34	21.73
15	4	Sho Endo	Japan	25.53	10.6	5.17	5.96	21.73
16	38	Aleksey Pavlenko	Russia	24.90	10.8	4.60	6.26	21.66
17	37	Andrey Volkov	Russia	26.17	11.4	4.58	5.66	21.64
18	27	Jimi Salonen	Finland	24.77	9.5	4.93	6.32	20.75
19	34	Ludvig Fjällström	Sweden	25.30	9.5	4.26	6.07	19.83
20	6	Bradley Wilson	United States	24.83	1.5	2.11	6.29	9.90

Final 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Score			Total	Notes
					Turns	Air	Time
1	2	Mikaël Kingsbury	Canada	26.37	12.5	6.47	5.57	24.54	Q
2	7	Marc-Antoine Gagnon	Canada	25.61	12.2	6.04	5.92	24.16	Q
3	1	Alexandre Bilodeau	Canada	25.91	12.2	5.91	5.78	23.89	Q
4	5	Alexandr Smyshlyaev	Russia	25.22	12.6	5.14	6.11	23.85	Q
5	9	Dmitriy Reiherd	Kazakhstan	24.71	12.2	4.93	6.35	23.48	Q
6	3	Patrick Deneen	United States	24.00	11.7	4.94	6.68	23.32	Q
7	10	Matt Graham	Australia	25.08	12.1	5.04	6.17	23.31
8	33	Benjamin Cavet	France	26.31	11.0	5.87	5.59	22.46
9	12	Philippe Marquis	Canada	24.07	10.1	5.50	6.65	22.25
10	30	Pavel Kolmakov	Kazakhstan	25.73	10.7	3.46	5.87	20.03
11	32	Per Spett	Sweden	27.39	3.5	4.88	5.09	13.47
	25	Choi Jae-Woo	South Korea					DNF

Final 3

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Score			Total	Notes
					Turns	Air	Time
	1	Alexandre Bilodeau	Canada	24.81	13.1	6.91	6.30	26.31
	2	Mikaël Kingsbury	Canada	25.25	12.0	6.62	6.09	24.71
	5	Alexandr Smyshlyaev	Russia	24.94	12.4	5.70	6.24	24.34
4	7	Marc-Antoine Gagnon	Canada	25.56	11.5	5.90	5.95	23.35
5	9	Dmitriy Reiherd	Kazakhstan	24.21	11.4	4.82	6.58	22.80
6	3	Patrick Deneen	United States	23.83	11.0	4.40	6.76	22.16

References

1. "Freestyle Skiing Schedule and Results". SOOC. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
2. Graves, Will (10 February 2014). "Canada's Alex Bilodeau takes gold in men's moguls, first two-time freestyle Olympic champion". The Republic. Columbus, Indiana. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
3. "Alex Bilodeau wins 2nd gold medal". ESPN. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
4. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Ski Federation. December 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
5. "Frenchman Colas out of moguls with injury". Reuters. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
6. Qualification Results
7. Final Results