Olympic Winter Games 2010 / Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	West Vancouver
Competition venue	Cypress Mountain
Nations	27
Athletes	172 (87 , 85 )
date	13.-25. February 2010
decisions	6th
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At the XXI. During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , six freestyle skiing competitions were held. The venue for all competitions was the winter sports area Cypress Mountain , which is located above West Vancouver in the North Shore Mountains and about thirty minutes by car from downtown Vancouver. Two ski cross competitions were new in the program.

Balance sheet

Target jump of the ski cross slope

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Canada	2	1	-	3
2	United States	1	1	2	4th
3	Australia	1	1	-	2
4th	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
	Belarus	1	-	-	1
6th	People's Republic of China	-	1	2	3
7th	Norway	-	1	1	2
8th	Austria	-	1	-	1
9	France	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Alyaksey Hryschyn Jeret Peterson Liu Zhongqing Moguls Alexandre Bilodeau Dale Begg-Smith Bryon Wilson Ski cross Mike Schmid Andreas Matt Audun Grønvold

Women competitor gold silver bronze Aerials Lydia Lassila Li Nina Guo Xinxin Moguls Hannah Kearney Jennifer Heil Shannon Bahrke Ski cross Ashleigh McIvor Hedda Berntsen Marion Josserand

Results men

Aerials

space	country	athlete	Points
1	BLR	Alyaksey Hryschyn	248.41
2	United States	Jeret Peterson	247.21
3	CHN	Liu Zhongqing	242.53
4th	United States	Ryan St. Onge	239.93
5	CAN	Kyle Nissen	239.31
6th	CHN	Jia Zongyang	237.57
7th	CHN	Qi Guangpu	234.85
8th	CAN	Steve Omischl	233.86
9	BLR	Zimafej Slivets	225.58
10	CAN	Warren Shouldice	223.30
12	CHE	Thomas Lambert	210.90
14th	CHE	Andreas Isoz	214.18
16	CHE	Christian Hächler	207.25
18th	CHE	Renato Ulrich	200.41

Qualification: February 22, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Final: February 25, 2010, 6:00 p.m.

System: “Cypress Aerials”
inrun length: 87 m;
Inlet gradient: 25 ° Outlet length: 30.5 m; Outlet slope: 37 °

25 participants from 8 countries, 24 of them in the rating.

Moguls

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CAN	Alexandre Bilodeau	26.75
2	OUT	Dale Begg-Smith	26.58
3	United States	Bryon Wilson	26.08
4th	CAN	Vincent Marquis	25.88
5	CAN	Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau	25.83
6th	FRA	Guilbaut Colas	25.74
7th	JPN	Shō Endō	25.38
8th	SWE	Jesper Björnlund	25.12
9	JPN	Nobuyuki Nishi	25.11
10	RUS	Alexander Smyslyaev	24.38

Date: February 14, 2010, 2:30 p.m. (qualification), 5:30 p.m. (final)

Slope: "Olympic Moguls Course" Slope
length: 250 m; Slope width: 18 m; Slope: 28 °

30 participants from 10 countries, all in the ranking.

Ski cross

→ Main article : 2010 Winter Olympics / Freestyle Skiing - Skicross (men)

space	country	athlete
1	CHE	Mike Schmid
2	AUT	Andreas Matt
3	NOR	Audun Grønvold
4th	CAN	Christopher Del Bosco
5	FRA	Enak Gavaggio
6th	CAN	Davey Barr
7th	OUT	Scott Kneller
8th	SLO	Filip Flisar
9	JAM	Errol Kerr
10	CAN	Stanley Hayer
14th	CHE	Richard Spalinger
15th	AUT	Markus Wittner
18th	AUT	Thomas Zangerl
19th	GER	Simon Stickl
20th	CHE	Conradign Netzer
30th	AUT	Patrick Koller
31	GER	Martin Fiala
32	CHE	Beni Hofer

Date: February 21, 2010, 9:15 am (qualification), 12:15 pm (final)

Slope: "Fork"
Start: 1178 m; Goal: 962 m; Length: 1144 m; Difference in altitude: 216 m

33 participants from 15 countries, 32 of them in the rating.

Results women

Aerials

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	OUT	Lydia Lassila	214.74
2	CHN	Li Nina	207.23
3	CHN	Guo Xinxin	205.22
4th	BLR	Assol Slivets	198.69
5	OUT	Jacqui Cooper	194.29
6th	CHN	Xu Mengtao	191.61
7th	CHN	Cheng Shuang	187.87
8th	BLR	Ala Zuper	181.84
9	United States	Lacy Schnoor	172.89
10	United States	Ashley Caldwell	171.10
16	CHE	Evelyne Leu	155.50
19th	CHE	Tanja Schärer	125.73

Qualification: February 20, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
Final: February 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

System: “Cypress Aerials”
inrun length: 87 m;
Inlet gradient: 25 ° Outlet length: 30.5 m; Outlet slope: 37 °

23 participants from 10 countries, all in the rating.

Moguls

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Hannah Kearney	26.63
2	CAN	Jennifer Heil	25.69
3	United States	Shannon Bahrke	25.43
4th	JPN	Aiko Uemura	24.68
5	CAN	Chloé Dufour-Lapointe	23.87
6th	AUT	Margarita Marbler	23.69
7th	RUS	Ekaterina Stolyarova	23.55
8th	JPN	Arisa Murata	23.22
9	RUS	Regina Rakhimova	22.70
10	ITA	Deborah Scanzio	22.19

Date: February 13, 2010, 4:30 p.m. (qualification), 7:30 p.m. (final)

Slope: "Olympic Moguls Course" Slope
length: 250 m; Slope width: 18 m; Slope: 28 °

27 participants from 12 countries, all in the rating.

The favorites of the first freestyle competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics included the Americans, the Canadians, who included Jennifer Heil , the reigning 2006 Olympic champion . As the top favorite, there was great pressure of expectation from the Canadian media. These highlighted the fact that so far no Canadian had won an Olympic gold medal at the Olympic Games in their own country (1976 in Montreal and 1988 in Calgary). Heil's trainer said of his athlete: "She's been driving phenomenally through January and I think she has very, very good chances." The athlete herself said she would do anything to cope with the pressure; without this, however, Olympia would not be Olympia.

The medalists Heil, Kearney, Bahrke (from left)

In qualifying, the North Americans in particular confirmed their role as favorites. On the slope soaked by the constant rain, the American Hannah Kearney won ahead of her Canadian competitor Heil because of the faster time and the better attitude when skiing, which the jury rated as better. In addition to these two factors, the two jumps completed during the run also played a role; Heil was able to score a higher score there. Kearney, who failed in qualifying last time, was not entirely satisfied with her performance: "I felt I was very fast, but on the helicopter jump I made a little mistake when I bent my knee." Both Kearney and Heil also had no problems with the external circumstances. Heil said she got used to it. Kearney even saw the advantage that the freezing moisture would make the route faster. Behind them were three other Americans and two Canadians in the top ten. The best non-American athlete was Aiko Uemura from Japan in fifth. Margarita Marbler , the only Austrian in the field, made it into the final in eighth place.

The final was opened in front of 12,000 spectators by three consecutive Russian women. These played just as little a role in the medal award as the other athletes who started in the first half of the final. The first serious runner was the Canadian Chloé Dufour-Lapointe . She got good posture grades, especially in the jumps, and finally came in fifth. After her started Marbler, who had calculated medal chances in advance. However, after only showing safety jumps and weaknesses in the first jump, as in the qualification, she ultimately classified herself sixth. She expressed her disappointment: “This is a competition in which only the first three count. My dream did not come true. ”Before the final contenders for victory hit the slopes, Shannon Bahrke took the lead. She won the bronze medal in the end after finishing second in Turin in 2006. Heather McPhie started as the third best runner from the qualification and made a good run until shortly after her second jump, but then fell and fell back to 18th place.

Of the two favorites, Jennifer Heil had to complete her run first as second in qualification. She showed the best performance so far and took the lead from Bahrke with a 0.26 point lead. When their interim top position was announced, cheers broke out in the audience. She later stressed that it would have been like "standing on the shoulders of all Canadians"; at the awards ceremony she thanked her supporters. But it wasn't enough for victory, as Kearney was the last starter to receive the highest number of points in all three categories. Their victory was clear, with almost a full point ahead. After Donna Weinbrecht in 1992, Kearney was the second US Olympic champion in this discipline.

Ski cross

→ Main article : 2010 Winter Olympics / Freestyle Skiing - Skicross (women)

space	country	sportswoman
1	CAN	Ashleigh McIvor
2	NOR	Hedda Berntsen
3	FRA	Marion Josserand
4th	AUT	Karin Huttary
5	CAN	Kelsey Serwa
6th	SWE	Anna Holmlund
7th	CHE	Fanny Smith
8th	NOR	Julie Brendengen Jensen
9	FRA	Ophélie David
10	SWE	Magdalena Iljans
17th	GER	Anna Woerner
18th	CHE	Katrin Müller
20th	GER	Heidi Zacher
23	AUT	Katrin Ofner
24	AUT	Andrea Limbacher
25th	GER	Julia Manhard
26th	AUT	Katharina Gutensohn
29	CHE	Franziska Steffen
35	CHE	Sanna Lüdi

Date: February 23, 2010, 10:30 am (qualification), 1:00 pm (final)

Slope: "Fork"
Start: 1178 m; Goal: 962 m; Length: 1144 m; Difference in altitude: 216 m

35 participants from 17 countries, all in the ranking.

Web links

Commons : Freestyle Skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overview of all competitions in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freestyle: Heil eyes history for Canada
2. ↑ Heil earns Canada's first medal
3. ↑ Kearney outshines Heil in Vancouver 2010 moguls qualifying ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ US girl wins qualification
5. ↑ ^{a b} Marbler Sixth on the mogul slope
6. ↑ ^{a b} First gold for the USA ( Memento from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )