
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Birk Ruud won the Beijing Games’ guys’s freestyle snowboarding huge air occasion, that made its Winter Olympics launching.
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It would be Ruud not to!
The Norway flag along for the trip on Birk Ruud’s success run. #freestyle pic.twitter.com/DzKpTDTg2Q
The Norwegian’s two-run rating of 18775 showed to be the very best in the 12- individual field, with the United States’ Colby Stevenson (18300) and Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut (18100) taking silver and bronze, respectively.
Each of the 12 finalists had 3 runs, with the leading 2 outcomes integrating to act as their supreme rating.
Here’s a take a look at the results.
Order of Finish
1. Birk Ruud (Norway): 187.75
2. Colby Stevenson (United States): 183.00
3. Henrik Harlaut (Sweden): 181.00
4. Oliwer Magnusson (Sweden): 178.25
5. Leonardo Donaggio (Italy): 172.00
6. Javier Lliso (Spain): 171.50
7. Jesper Tjader (Sweden): 170.25
8. Alexander Hall (United States): 160.75
9. Evan McEachran (Canada): 115.50
10 Christian Nummedal (Norway): 110.50
11 Mac Forehand (United States): 80.25
12 Tormod Frostad (Norway): 58.50
Source: olympics.com
Notes
Thirty-one skiers took part in the certifying round, with the field getting trimmed to 12.
Ruud ended up initially in certifying, and he continued to set the bar in the finals. He published the single-best specific work on his very first go-around, publishing 95.75
Ruud followed that up with 92 points in his 2nd run, and his 3rd and last run wound up being moot after he generated the gold-medal-winning 187.75- point outcome.
The 21- year-old has actually made 4 X Games medals in huge air (2 gold, 2 silver). He likewise took silver in slopestyle at the 2019 World Championships. Now he has an Olympic gold medal on his resume.
Stevenson conquered a difficult very first run (3475) to publish back-to-back runs over 90 points (9175, 91.25) to rise onto the 2nd area on the podium.
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@TeamUSA’s Colby Stevenson tossing it down in run 2!
The guys’s freeski huge air last continues. #WatchWithUS
@nbc and @peacockTV
https://t.co/2G2aUmjS5U pic.twitter.com/S0tTQDOFfL
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The run that protected Colby Stevenson the Olympic silver medal in males’s freeski huge air! @TeamUSA x #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/BWNLC1uwab
Stevenson has actually now made his 2nd silver medal in a significant occasion, having actually won 2nd at the 2021 World Championships in slopestyle.
Both Ruud and Stevenson experienced individual difficulties prior to this point.
Ruud’s daddy passed away 10 months earlier from cancer.
Lukas Weese @Weesesports
In April 2021, Birk Ruud lost his Dad, Øivind, to cancer.
Øivind wished to ensure Ruud was doing what he enjoyed, which was freestyle snowboarding.
Nine months later on, Ruud wins Olympic Gold in the inaugural Men’s Freestyle Skiing Big Air competitors.
What a story. #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/0cRnDbAn28
Stevenson suffered various terrible head and neck injuries after an auto accident in May 2016:
NBC Olympics @NBCOlympics
Colby Stevenson wins SILVER for @TeamUSA in guys’s freeski huge air!
After making it through a brain injury from an auto accident in 2016, he is an Olympic medalist at the 2022 #WinterOlympics. pic.twitter.com/cjlri3BK4q
” Stevenson shattered his skull in 30 locations, his neck was ‘squashed like an accordion,’ in addition to a damaged eye socket and ribs. He was put in a medically-induced coma for 3 days,” per OlympicTalk last December.
Yet the set shined in the competitors’s Olympic launching.
The 30- year-old Harlaut completed the podium. He was the competitors’s most constant skier, acting as the only one to publish ratings of 80 or more points on each of his 3 runs. Harlaut’s “worst run,” his very first, resulted in an86 He followed up with 90 points in his 2nd run and 91 for the 3rd.
The Swede is an eight-time X Games gold medalist, with 6 of those honors taking place in the huge air competitors. He likewise won silver at the 2019 World Championships in huge air.

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Birk Ruud won the Beijing Games’ guys’s freestyle snowboarding huge air occasion, that made its Winter Olympics launching.
Olympics @Olympics
It would be Ruud not to!
The Norway flag along for the trip on Birk Ruud’s success run. #freestyle pic.twitter.com/DzKpTDTg2Q
The Norwegian’s two-run rating of 18775 showed to be the very best in the 12- individual field, with the United States’ Colby Stevenson (18300) and Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut (18100) taking silver and bronze, respectively.
Each of the 12 finalists had 3 runs, with the leading 2 outcomes integrating to act as their supreme rating.
Here’s a take a look at the results.
Order of Finish
1. Birk Ruud (Norway): 187.75
2. Colby Stevenson (United States): 183.00
3. Henrik Harlaut (Sweden): 181.00
4. Oliwer Magnusson (Sweden): 178.25
5. Leonardo Donaggio (Italy): 172.00
6. Javier Lliso (Spain): 171.50
7. Jesper Tjader (Sweden): 170.25
8. Alexander Hall (United States): 160.75
9. Evan McEachran (Canada): 115.50
10 Christian Nummedal (Norway): 110.50
11 Mac Forehand (United States): 80.25
12 Tormod Frostad (Norway): 58.50
Source: olympics.com
Notes
Thirty-one skiers took part in the certifying round, with the field getting trimmed to 12.
Ruud ended up initially in certifying, and he continued to set the bar in the finals. He published the single-best specific work on his very first go-around, publishing 95.75
Ruud followed that up with 92 points in his 2nd run, and his 3rd and last run wound up being moot after he generated the gold-medal-winning 187.75- point outcome.
The 21- year-old has actually made 4 X Games medals in huge air (2 gold, 2 silver). He likewise took silver in slopestyle at the 2019 World Championships. Now he has an Olympic gold medal on his resume.
Stevenson conquered a difficult very first run (3475) to publish back-to-back runs over 90 points (9175, 91.25) to rise onto the 2nd area on the podium.
NBC Olympics @NBCOlympics
@TeamUSA’s Colby Stevenson tossing it down in run 2!
The guys’s freeski huge air last continues. #WatchWithUS
@nbc and @peacockTV
https://t.co/2G2aUmjS5U pic.twitter.com/S0tTQDOFfL
NBC Olympics @NBCOlympics
The run that protected Colby Stevenson the Olympic silver medal in males’s freeski huge air! @TeamUSA x #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/BWNLC1uwab
Stevenson has actually now made his 2nd silver medal in a significant occasion, having actually won 2nd at the 2021 World Championships in slopestyle.
Both Ruud and Stevenson experienced individual difficulties prior to this point.
Ruud’s daddy passed away 10 months earlier from cancer.
Lukas Weese @Weesesports
In April 2021, Birk Ruud lost his Dad, Øivind, to cancer.
Øivind wished to ensure Ruud was doing what he enjoyed, which was freestyle snowboarding.
Nine months later on, Ruud wins Olympic Gold in the inaugural Men’s Freestyle Skiing Big Air competitors.
What a story. #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/0cRnDbAn28
Stevenson suffered various terrible head and neck injuries after an auto accident in May 2016:
NBC Olympics @NBCOlympics
Colby Stevenson wins SILVER for @TeamUSA in guys’s freeski huge air!
After making it through a brain injury from an auto accident in 2016, he is an Olympic medalist at the 2022 #WinterOlympics. pic.twitter.com/cjlri3BK4q
” Stevenson shattered his skull in 30 locations, his neck was ‘squashed like an accordion,’ in addition to a damaged eye socket and ribs. He was put in a medically-induced coma for 3 days,” per OlympicTalk last December.
Yet the set shined in the competitors’s Olympic launching.
The 30- year-old Harlaut completed the podium. He was the competitors’s most constant skier, acting as the only one to publish ratings of 80 or more points on each of his 3 runs. Harlaut’s “worst run,” his very first, resulted in an86 He followed up with 90 points in his 2nd run and 91 for the 3rd.
The Swede is an eight-time X Games gold medalist, with 6 of those honors taking place in the huge air competitors. He likewise won silver at the 2019 World Championships in huge air.
















































