1998 Winter Olympics / Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Iizuna
Competition venue	Iizuna Kogen
Nations	25th
Athletes	110 (58 , 52 )
date	8-18 February 1998
decisions	4th
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At the XVIII. At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , four freestyle skiing competitions were held. The venue was the winter sports area Iizuna Kogen near Iizuna .

Balance sheet

Iizuna Kogen

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	3	-	-	3
2	Japan	1	-	-	1
3	Finland	-	1	1	2
4th	Germany	-	1	-	1
	France	-	1	-	1
	People's Republic of China	-	1	-	1
8th	Norway	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Belarus	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Eric Bergoust Sébastien Foucras Dzmitryi Daschtschynski Moguls Jonny Moseley Janne Lahtela Sami Mustons

Women competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Nikki Stone Xu Nannan Colette Brand Moguls Tae Satoya Tatjana Mittermayer Kari Traa

Results men

Aerials

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Eric Bergoust	255.64
2	FRA	Sébastien Foucras	248.79
3	BLR	Dzmitryi Daschtschynski	240.79
4th	CZE	Aleš Valenta	232.25
5	United States	Britt Swartley	231.61
6th	RUS	Alexander Mikhailov	229.98
7th	AUT	Christian Rijavec	227.60
8th	BLR	Alyaksey Hryschyn	220.99
9	UKR	Stanislav Kravchuk	219.94
10	CAN	Nicolas Fontaine	216.93

Qualification: February 16, 1998
Final: February 18, 1998

Facility: “Olympic Aerials Hill”
inrun length: 65 m;
Infeed gradient: 26 ° outlet length: 35 m; Outlet slope: 37 °

26 participants, 25 of them in the rating.

Moguls

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Jonny Moseley	26.93
2	FIN	Janne Lahtela	26.00
3	FIN	Sami Mustons	25.76
4th	CAN	Jean-Luc Brassard	25.52
5	FIN	Lauri Lassila	25.43
6th	SWE	Jesper Rönnbäck	25.32
7th	CAN	Ryan Johnson	25.25
8th	CAN	Stéphane Rochon	25.01
9	SWE	Kurre Lansburgh	24.71
10	United States	Alexander Wilson	24.68

Qualification: February 8, 1998
Final: February 11, 1998

Slope: "Olympic Moguls Course" Slope
length: 250 m; Slope width: 9.5 m; Gradient: 26.5 °
Start: 1270 m; Finish: 1165 m; Difference in altitude: 105 m

32 participants, all in the ranking.

Results women

Aerials

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Nikki Stone	193.00
2	CHN	Xu Nannan	186.97
3	SUI	Colette Brand	171.83
4th	UKR	Tetiana Kosachenko	167.32
5	UKR	Ala Zuper	166.12
6th	NOR	Hilde Synnøve Lyd	160.18
7th	CHN	Dandan Guo	159.74
8th	UKR	Yulia Klijukova	153.15
9	CAN	Veronica Brenner	151.15
10	UKR	Olena Yunchyk	139.05
11	SUI	Michèle Rohrbach	129.36
15th	SUI	Evelyne Leu	148.72
16	AUT	Sabina Hudribusch	147.43

Qualification: February 16, 1998
Final: February 18, 1998

Facility: “Olympic Aerials Hill”
inrun length: 65 m;
Infeed gradient: 26 ° outlet length: 35 m; Outlet slope: 37 °

26 participants, 25 of them in the evaluation.

Moguls

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	JPN	Tae Satoya	25.06
2	DEU	Tatjana Mittermayer	24.62
3	NOR	Kari Traa	24.09
4th	United States	Donna Weinbrecht	24.02
5	CAN	Anne-Marie Pelchat	24.02
6th	FIN	Minna Kahru	23.83
7th	JPN	Aiko Uemura	23.79
8th	United States	Liz McIntyre	23.72
9	GER	Sandra Schmitt	23.67
10	United States	Ann Battelle	23.65
20th	SUI	Corinne Bodmer	19.93

Qualification: February 8, 1998
Final: February 11, 1998

Slope: "Olympic Moguls Course" Slope
length: 250 m; Slope width: 9.5 m; Gradient: 26.5 °
Start: 1270 m; Finish: 1165 m; Difference in altitude: 105 m

26 participants, all in the ranking.

Web links

• Overview of all competitions in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1998 Winter Olympics (pp. 112–119; PDF, 24.4 MB)