Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sauze d'Oulx
Competition venue	Sauze d'Oulx-Jouvenceaux
Nations	22nd
Athletes	116 (63 , 53 )
date	11-23 February 2006
decisions	4th
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At the XX. During the 2006 Winter Olympics , four freestyle skiing competitions were held. The venue was Sauze d'Oulx-Jouvenceaux , 82 kilometers west of Turin . The capacity was 7,110 spectators.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	People's Republic of China	1	1	-	2
2	Australia	1	-	1	2
3	Canada	1	-	-	1
	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
5	Finland	-	1	-	1
	Norway	-	1	-	1
	Belarus	-	1	-	1
8th	France	-	-	1	1
	Russia	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Han Xiaopeng Dzmitryi Daschtschynski Vladimir Lebedev Moguls Dale Begg-Smith Mikko Ronkainen Toby Dawson

Women competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Evelyne Leu Li Nina Alisa Camplin Moguls Jennifer Heil Kari Traa Sandra Laoura

Results men

Aerials (jumping)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Han Xiaopeng	250.77
2	BLR	Dzmitryi Daschtschynski	248.68
3	RUS	Vladimir Lebedev	246.76
4th	BLR	Alyaksey Hryschyn	245.18
5	CAN	Kyle Nissen	244.91
6th	CAN	Warren Shouldice	239.70
7th	United States	Jeret Peterson	237.48
8th	BLR	Anton Kuschnir	227.66
9	RUS	Yevgeny Brailovsky	223.61
10	CHE	Renato Ulrich	204.75
14th	CHE	Thomas Lambert	214.77

Qualification: February 20, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Final: February 23, 2006, 6:30 p.m.

Facility: “Pin Court”
inrun length: 62 m;
Inlet gradient: 27 ° Outflow length: 39 m; Outlet gradient: 36.5 °

31 participants, 28 of them in the rating.

Moguls (moguls)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	OUT	Dale Begg-Smith	26.77
2	FIN	Mikko Ronkainen	26.62
3	United States	Toby Dawson	26.30
4th	CAN	Marc-André Moreau	25.62
5	SWE	Jesper Björnlund	25.21
6th	United States	Jeremy Bloom	25.17
7th	United States	Travis Mayer	24.91
8th	FIN	Juuso Lahtela	24.42
9	United States	Travis Cabral	24.38
10	FRA	Guilbaut Colas	23.60
15th	GER	Christoph Stark	22.84
28	GER	Gerhard Blöchl	21.16

Date: February 15, 2006, 2 p.m. (qualification), 5:30 p.m. (final)

Slope: "Pin Court" Slope
length: 223 m; Slope width: 10 m; Slope: 26.5 °

35 participants, all in the ranking.

Results women

Aerials (jumping)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHE	Evelyne Leu	202.55
2	CHN	Li Nina	197.39
3	OUT	Alisa Camplin	191.39
4th	CHN	Xu Nannan	191.23
5	BLR	Assol Slivets	177.75
6th	CHN	Guo Xinxin	174.85
7th	CHE	Manuela Müller	159.14
8th	OUT	Jacqui Cooper	152.69
9	RUS	Anna Sukal	152.04
10	BLR	Ala Zuper	137.84

Qualification: February 21, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Final: February 22, 2006, 7:15 p.m.

Facility: “Pin Court”
inrun length: 62 m;
Inlet gradient: 27 ° Outflow length: 39 m; Outlet gradient: 36.5 °

23 participants, all in the ranking.

The final had to be postponed by half an hour due to thick fog. The Australian Jacqui Cooper set a new world record in qualification with 213.36 points, but fell in the final round.

Moguls (moguls)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CAN	Jennifer Heil	26.50
2	NOR	Kari Traa	25.65
3	FRA	Sandra Laoura	25.37
4th	SWE	Sara Kjellin	24.74
5	JPN	Aiko Uemura	24.01
6th	CZE	Nikola Sudová	23.58
7th	CAN	Kristi Richards	23.30
8th	CAN	Audrey Robichaud	23.10
9	ITA	Deborah Scanzio	23.00
10	United States	Shannon Bahrke	22.82
17th	AUT	Margarita Marbler	20.79

Date: February 11, 2006, 3:00 p.m. (qualification), 7:00 p.m. (final)

Slope: "Pin Court" Slope
length: 223 m; Slope width: 10 m; Slope: 26.5 °

30 participants, all in the ranking.

All 30 runners competed in a qualification round, from which the 20 best qualified for the final. One round was also driven in the final, whereby the points from the qualification were no longer taken into account. After bronze in Nagano in 1998 and gold four years later in Salt Lake City, Kari Traa won her third Olympic medal. Jennifer Heil had missed the bronze medal by 0.01 points in Salt Lake City. This time she won confidently. The reigning world champion Hannah Kearney clearly missed the final as 22nd of the qualification.

Web links

• Overview of all competitions in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Freestyle skiing at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )