The women's big air competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February (qualification) and 15 February (final), at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing. Anna Gasser of Austria won the event, successfully defending her 2018 title. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand won the silver medal, and Kokomo Murase of Japan bronze, her first Olympic medal.
The 2018 silver medalist, Jamie Anderson, twice Olympic champion in slopestyle, and the bronze medalist, Sadowski-Synnott, qualified as well. Andreson did not qualify for the finals. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Gasser was second in both, and was leading the ranking, followed by Reira Iwabuchi and Murase. Laurie Blouin was the 2021 world champion, with Sadowski-Synnott and Miyabi Onitsuka being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Sadowski-Synnott was the 2021 X-Games winner, ahead of Anderson and Onitsuka.
Qualification
A total of 30 snowboarders qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points in Big Air or Slopestyle on the FIS Points List on January 17, 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event in Big Air or slopestyle or at the FIS Snowboard World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.
Results Qualification Q — Qualified for the Final
The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advanced to the Final.Qualification results Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Notes 1 2 4 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 85.50 62.25 91.00 176.50 Q 2 6 17 Kokomo Murase 85.00 72.75 86.00 171.00 Q 3 3 2 Reira Iwabuchi 83.00 75.50 11.75 158.50 Q 4 9 14 Laurie Blouin 68.00 67.25 88.25 156.25 Q 5 1 1 Miyabi Onitsuka 80.75 72.25 73.50 154.25 Q 6 7 24 Anna Gasser 73.25 62.25 80.25 153.50 Q 7 8 15 Tess Coady 74.00 54.75 62.25 136.25 Q 8 11 25 Annika Morgan 12.00 64.25 68.00 132.25 Q 9 30 13 Rong Ge 10.75 64.00 65.75 129.75 Q 10 17 18 Jasmine Baird 69.00 60.50 69.00 129.50 Q 11 13 8 Melissa Peperkamp 60.00 68.25 58.00 128.25 Q 12 15 19 Hailey Langland 62.00 65.50 21.25 127.50 Q 13 23 9 Bianca Gisler 50.00 63.50 63.75 127.25 14 20 11 Šárka Pančochová 20.75 62.75 60.25 123.00 15 4 5 Jamie Anderson 30.00 29.50 89.75 119.75 16 22 10 Klaudia Medlová 62.25 51.00 29.75 113.25 17 31 12 Kamilla Kozuback 51.50 5.50 59.00 110.50 18 26 20 Urška Pribošič 43.00 25.75 63.75 106.75 19 19 28 Courtney Rummel 44.75 56.25 38.75 101.00 20 28 6 Carola Niemelä 12.75 58.50 42.25 100.75 21 10 22 Brooke Voigt 65.00 31.00 17.50 96.00 22 5 3 Enni Rukajärvi 25.75 17.25 63.50 89.25 23 21 16 Ariane Burri 57.75 18.75 27.25 85.00 24 16 30 Evy Poppe 44.00 60.75 21.00 81.75 25 14 27 Katie Ormerod 14.75 60.25 9.50 69.75 26 24 7 Ekaterina Kosova 17.00 46.00 10.50 63.00 27 25 29 Hanne Eilertsen 39.75 17.50 12.75 57.25 28 29 26 Lea Jugovac 9.25 15.00 10.00 24.25 29 27 21 Lucile Lefevre 19.00 15.00 20.00 20.00 12 23 Julia Marino DNS DNS DNS DNS
Final Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total 7 7 Anna Gasser 90.00 86.75 95.50 185.50 2 12 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 93.25 83.75 30.25 177.00 6 11 Kokomo Murase 80.00 91.50 12.00 171.50 4 3 10 Reira Iwabuchi 83.75 82.25 37.00 166.00 5 30 4 Rong Ge 29.00 85.75 74.25 160.00 6 13 2 Melissa Peperkamp 64.25 72.00 69.75 141.75 7 17 3 Jasmine Baird 68.75 48.75 61.25 130.00 8 9 9 Laurie Blouin 13.50 86.25 28.75115.00 9 8 6 Tess Coady 85.00 29.75 8.50 114.75 10 11 5 Annika Morgan 15.50 73.50 14.50 88.00 11 1 8 Miyabi Onitsuka 9.50 54.50 10.75 65.25 12 15 1 Hailey Langland 25.25 31.00 22.25 56.25
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