The men's halfpipe competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held from 13 to 14 February 2018 at the Bogwang Phoenix Park in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Start list The event was won by Shaun White, who previously won this event in 2006 and 2010. Ayumu Hirano, the 2014 silver medalist, took silver. Scott James became the bronze medalist. For James, this is the first Olympic medal, and this was also the second medal for Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by John Dowling Coates, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Dexter Paine, International Ski Federation vice president.

Qualification

The top 30 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified, with a maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (July 1, 2016 to 21 January 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics, did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criteria were met.

Due to an injury, the 2014 Olympic Champion Iouri Podladtchikov was not able to defend his title. He was qualified but in Pyeongchang he decided not to compete. Podladtchikov crashed during the X-Games in January.

Results Qualification Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers move on to the medal round.Qualification results

Rank Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Best Notes 1 14 Shaun White 93.25 98.50 98.50 Q 2 13 Scott James 89.00 96.75 96.75 Q 3 7 Ayumu Hirano 87.50 95.25 95.25 Q 4 10 Ben Ferguson 91.00 89.75 91.00 Q 5 8 Raibu Katayama 85.50 90.75 90.75 Q 6 5 Jan Scherrer 84.00 16.00 84.00 Q 7 6 Chase Josey 47.75 83.75 83.75 Q 8 4 Jake Pates 59.50 82.25 82.25 Q 9 15 Patrick Burgener 82.00 50.25 82.00 Q 10 1 Yuto Totsuka 80.00 65.25 80.00 Q 11 23 Peetu Piiroinen 14.25 77.50 77.50 Q 12 3 Kent Callister 66.75 77.00 77.00 Q 13 11 Taku Hiraoka 26.00 75.75 75.75 14 24 Lee Kwang-ki 75.00 72.00 75.00 15 16 Zhang Yiwei 32.50 74.00 74.00 16 9 Tim-Kevin Ravnjak 72.50 27.00 72.50 17 2 Derek Livingston 71.25 32.75 71.25 18 25 Seamus O'Connor 65.50 39.75 65.50 19 12 Markus Malin 30.25 63.50 63.50 20 29 Nikita Avtaneev 63.25 32.75 63.25 21 28 Kweon Lee-jun 58.50 62.75 62.75 22 27 Nathan Johnstone 62.25 10.25 62.25 23 18 Johannes Hoepfl 53.25 59.50 59.50 24 26 Kim Ho-jun 54.50 10.25 54.50 25 22 Tit Štante 24.50 52.25 52.25 26 21 Rakai Tait 36.50 25.75 36.50 27 20 Elias Allenspach 23.75 25.50 25.50 28 19 Janne Korpi 4.50 22.50 22.50 29 17 Shi Wancheng 10.00 11.75 11.75

Final The final was held at 11:30 on 14 February 2018.Final results Yuto Totsuka was injured during his second run, coming down on the edge of the halfpipe and injuring his hip. He was taken off the halfpipe by a team of paramedics and taken to a local hospital. As a result, he was unable to compete in the third round of the finals.

RankOrderNameCountryRun 1Run 2Run 3BestNotes12 Shaun White 94.25 55.00 97.75 97.7510 Ayumu Hirano 35.25 95.25 43.25 95.25 11 Scott James 92.00 81.75 40.25 92.009 Ben Ferguson 43.00 83.50 90.75 90.75 4 Patrick Burgener 84.00 51.00 89.75 89.75 6 Chase Josey 87.75 52.25 88.00 88.00 8 Raibu Katayama 85.75 25.00 87.00 87.00 5 Jake Pates 47.00 82.25 27.00 82.25 7 Jan Scherrer 31.25 80.50 70.75 80.50 101 Kent Callister 20.00 62.00 56.75 62.00 113 Yuto Totsuka 39.25 7.00 39.25 122 Peetu Piiroinen 4.50 12.75 13.50 13.50

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