Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Freestyle skiing at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates	6–21 February 2014
Competitors	277 from 30 nations

Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Aerials		men		women
Halfpipe		men		women
Moguls		men		women
Ski cross		men		women
Slopestyle		men		women

Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The ten events took place between 6–21 February 2014.

In April 2011 the International Olympic Committee approved the addition of the halfpipe event for both, men and women. In July 2011, slopestyle was also added to the program, therefore a total of four new events were added to the freestyle skiing program.

Competition schedule

Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, the venue for freestyle skiing

The following is the competition schedule for all ten events.

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
6 February	18:00	Women's moguls qualification
8 February	18:00	Women's moguls qualification 2
	22:00	Women's moguls final
10 February	18:00	Men's moguls qualification
	22:00	Men's moguls final
11 February	10:00	Women's slopestyle qualification
	13:00	Women's slopestyle final
13 February	10:15	Men's slopestyle qualification
	13:30	Men's slopestyle final
14 February	17:45	Women's aerials qualification
	21:30	Women's aerials final
17 February	17:45	Men's aerials qualification
	21:30	Men's aerials final
18 February	17:45	Men's halfpipe qualification
	21:30	Men's halfpipe final
20 February	11:45	Men's ski cross qualification
	13:30	Men's ski cross finals
	18:30	Women's halfpipe qualification
	21:30	Women's halfpipe final
21 February	11:45	Women's ski cross qualification
	13:30	Women's ski cross finals

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada (CAN)	4	4	1	9
2	United States (USA)	3	2	2	7
3	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	0	2
4	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
5	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
7	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Total	10	10	10	30

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's aerials	Anton Kushnir  Belarus	134.50	David Morris  Australia	110.41	Jia Zongyang  China	95.06
Men's halfpipe	David Wise  United States	92.00	Mike Riddle  Canada	90.60	Kevin Rolland  France	88.60
Men's moguls	Alexandre Bilodeau  Canada	26.31	Mikaël Kingsbury  Canada	24.71	Alexandr Smyshlyaev  Russia	24.34
Men's slopestyle	Joss Christensen  United States	95.80	Gus Kenworthy  United States	93.60	Nick Goepper  United States	92.40
Men's ski cross	Jean-Frédéric Chapuis  France		Arnaud Bovolenta  France		Jonathan Midol  France

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's aerials	Alla Tsuper  Belarus	98.01	Xu Mengtao  China	83.50	Lydia Lassila  Australia	72.12
Women's halfpipe	Maddie Bowman  United States	89.00	Marie Martinod  France	85.40	Ayana Onozuka  Japan	83.20
Women's moguls	Justine Dufour-Lapointe  Canada	22.44	Chloé Dufour-Lapointe  Canada	21.66	Hannah Kearney  United States	21.49
Women's slopestyle	Dara Howell  Canada	94.20	Devin Logan  United States	85.40	Kim Lamarre  Canada	85.00
Women's ski cross	Marielle Thompson  Canada		Kelsey Serwa  Canada		Anna Holmlund  Sweden

Qualification

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A maximum of 282 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 26 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women. The five different events had different quota amounts allocated to them.

Participating nations

276 athletes from 30 nations participated, with number of athletes in parentheses. Four nations, Belgium, Brazil, The British Virgin Islands and Chile made their Olympic debuts in the sport. Paraguay made its first appearance at the Winter Olympics, with its only athlete competing in freestyle skiing.

•  Australia (21)
•  Austria (11)
•  Belarus (6)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (1)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Canada (26)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (9)
•  Czech Republic (6)

•  Finland (9)
•  France (21)
•  Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Italy (4)
•  Japan (10)
•  Kazakhstan (8)
•  New Zealand (8)
•  Norway (11)
•  Paraguay (1)

•  Poland (1)
•  Russia (26)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Korea (5)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sweden (11)
•  Switzerland (24)
•  Ukraine (7)
•  United States (26)

Controversy

Both Canada and Slovenia both appealed separately to the Court of Arbitration for Sport that the three French athletes in the Big Final of the men's ski cross final, had their pants illegally changed by their coach. They argued it gave the three an aerodynamic advantage over the rest of the field. Both countries first appealed to the International Ski Federation, but were rejected since they appealed hours after the end of the competition (when the deadline was 15 minutes after the close of the race). The appeal to the court was ultimately unsuccessful as well, because the Court agreed with the ski federation that the appeal was filed past the deadline.

Notes

Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, winning the men's moguls, following up his 2010 Olympics gold in men's moguls. Justine Dufour-Lapointe became the youngest freestyle skiing Olympic champion ever in the women's mogul event.