Men's aerials at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle skiing
Venue	Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou
Date	15, 16 February
Competitors	24 from 9 nations
Winning points	129.00
Medalists
Qi Guangpu  China Oleksandr Abramenko  Ukraine Ilya Burov  ROC

Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Aerials	men	mixed	women
Big air	men		women
Halfpipe	men		women
Moguls	men		women
Ski cross	men		women
Slopestyle	men		women

The men's aerials competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February (qualification) and 16 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.^[1] Qi Guangpu of China won the event; this was his first Olympic gold medal. Oleksandr Abramenko of Ukraine, the defending champion, won the second medal, and Ilya Burov, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won bronze, replicating his 2018 achievement.

The 2018 silver medalist Jia Zongyang was competing as well. At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, there were six events before the Olympics, and only Russians, Chinese, and Swiss made it to the top three at any of them. Four events were won by Maxim Burov, the brother of Ilya Burov, and he was leading the rankings, followed by four Chinese. Sun Jiaxu was ranked second, and Jia Zongyang third. Maxim Burov is also the 2021 world champion.

Qualification

A total of 25 aerialists qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 80.00 FIS points on the FIS Points List on January 17, 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event or at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.^[2]

Results

Qualification 1

Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Score[3]	Notes
1	4	5	Qi Guangpu	China	127.88	Q
2	3	14	Jia Zongyang	China	125.67	Q
3	7	15	Noé Roth	Switzerland	123.08	Q
4	9	24	Eric Loughran	United States	121.24	Q
5	13	7	Oleksandr Abramenko	Ukraine	120.36	Q
6	20	12	Christopher Lillis	United States	119.91	Q
7	10	3	Stanislav Nikitin	ROC	119.47
8	15	17	Justin Schoenefeld	United States	118.59
9	17	23	Ilya Burov	ROC	117.65
10	19	21	Stanislau Hladchenka	Belarus	115.49
11	14	6	Miha Fontaine	Canada	115.05
12	6	22	Wang Xindi	China	114.60
13	16	8	Émile Nadeau	Canada	112.83
14	5	11	Pirmin Werner	Switzerland	112.22
15	12	20	Sherzod Khashyrbayev	Kazakhstan	109.74
16	21	19	Maksim Gustik	Belarus	109.74
17	23	16	Lloyd Wallace	Great Britain	108.41
18	22	9	Pavel Dzik	Belarus	106.20
19	25	13	Lewis Irving	Canada	103.98
20	11	10	Nicolas Gygax	Switzerland	101.77
21	1	2	Maxim Burov	ROC	95.02
22	18	18	Oleksandr Okipniuk	Ukraine	92.76
23	2	4	Sun Jiaxu	China	85.40
24	8	1	Dmytro Kotovskyi	Ukraine	73.89

Qualification 2

Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Round 1	Round 2	Best[4]	Notes
1	18	13	Oleksandr Okipniuk	Ukraine	92.76	125.00	125.00	Q
2	5	9	Pirmin Werner	Switzerland	112.22	123.45	123.45	Q
3	17	18	Ilya Burov	ROC	117.65	120.36	120.36	Q
4	10	3	Stanislav Nikitin	ROC	119.47	86.88	119.47	Q
5	15	12	Justin Schoenefeld	United States	118.59	105.88	118.59	Q
6	19	16	Stanislau Hladchenka	Belarus	115.49	107.69	115.49	Q
7	14	5	Miha Fontaine	Canada	115.05	107.69	115.05
8	6	17	Wang Xindi	China	114.60	98.19	114.60
9	8	1	Dmytro Kotovskyi	Ukraine	73.89	114.03	114.03
10	1	2	Maxim Burov	ROC	95.02	113.28	113.28
11	16	6	Émile Nadeau	Canada	112.83	102.26	112.83
12	2	4	Sun Jiaxu	China	85.40	110.86	110.86
13	12	15	Sherzod Khashyrbayev	Kazakhstan	109.74	69.23	109.74
14	21	14	Maksim Gustik	Belarus	109.74	97.20	109.74
15	23	11	Lloyd Wallace	Great Britain	108.41	71.94	108.41
16	22	7	Pavel Dzik	Belarus	106.20	81.45	106.20
17	25	10	Lewis Irving	Canada	103.98	80.99	103.98
18	11	8	Nicolas Gygax	Switzerland	101.77	103.62	103.62

Finals

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Final 1			Final 2[5]
				Jump 1	Jump 2	Best
	4	Qi Guangpu	China	125.22	114.48	125.22	129.00
	13	Oleksandr Abramenko	Ukraine	123.53	113.57	123.53	116.50
	17	Ilya Burov	ROC	109.05	129.50	129.50	114.93
4	5	Pirmin Werner	Switzerland	126.24	114.93	126.24	111.50
5	15	Justin Schoenefeld	United States	120.36	123.53	123.53	106.50
6	20	Christopher Lillis	United States	125.67	122.17	125.67	103.00
7	3	Jia Zongyang	China	123.45	88.69	123.45	did not advance
8	7	Noé Roth	Switzerland	122.13	110.41	122.13
9	18	Oleksandr Okipniuk	Ukraine	91.40	122.01	122.01
10	10	Stanislav Nikitin	ROC	117.26	119.00	119.00
11	19	Stanislau Hladchenka	Belarus	115.93	116.29	116.29
12	9	Eric Loughran	United States	111.95	90.50	111.95

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