The men's big air competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (qualification) and 9 February (final), at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing. This was the inaugural freestyle skiing men's big air competition at the Olympics. Birk Ruud of Norway became the Olympic champion, Colby Stevenson of the United States won silver, and Henrik Harlaut of Sweden bronze. For each of them, this was the first Olympic medal.

At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Both were won by Matěj Švancer, who was followed by Alex Hall in the ranking. Oliwer Magnusson is the 2021 world champion. Andri Ragettli is the 2021 X-Games winner.

Qualification

A total of 30 athletes qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points on the FIS Points List on 17 January 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event or at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships 2021 in either big air or slopestyle. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.

Results Qualification

Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Notes 1 5 4 Birk Ruud 94.50 50.50 93.25 187.75 Q 2 3 1 Alex Hall 87.00 90.75 89.50 180.25 Q 3 8 7 Oliwer Magnusson 88.00 89.25 84.00 177.25 Q 4 19 17 Henrik Harlaut 93.00 83.50 42.00 176.50 Q 5 4 2 Colby Stevenson 83.75 90.50 56.00 174.25 Q 6 17 29 Christian Nummedal 92.25 77.25 79.25 171.50 Q 7 24 22 Tormod Frostad 90.00 81.25 42.00 171.25 Q 8 6 25 Mac Forehand 77.75 92.00 79.00 171.00 Q 9 25 26 Javier Lliso 90.25 80.50 79.50 170.75 Q 10 30 16 Leonardo Donaggio 90.25 70.25 80.25 170.50 Q 11 20 30 Evan McEachran 81.75 88.50 39.75 170.25 Q 12 13 24 Jesper Tjäder 34.75 91.75 78.25 170.00 Q 13 15 21 Édouard Therriault 83.50 42.00 84.50 168.00 14 2 3 Andri Ragettli 89.75 78.00 20.75 167.75 15 7 14 Antoine Adelisse 79.50 66.00 83.75 163.25 16 23 12 Ben Barclay 81.00 78.25 84.50 162.75 17 9 18 Fabian Bösch 81.00 80.75 22.50 161.75 18 21 10 Finn Bilous 73.75 68.75 82.00 155.75 19 12 31 Ferdinand Dahl 12.00 72.50 77.50 150.00 20 18 13 Max Moffatt 83.00 64.00 61.00 147.00 21 29 19 Daniel Bacher 75.00 56.75 69.00 144.00 22 14 15 Nick Goepper 78.25 49.50 21.75 127.75 23 11 9 Kim Gubser 15.25 79.75 41.50 121.25 24 27 6 Hugo Burvall 47.25 55.25 46.00 101.25 25 26 8 Colin Wili 77.50 18.75 20.75 98.25 26 1 5 Matěj Švancer 61.75 27.75 25.50 89.50 27 31 20 He Jinbo 45.25 36.75 49.00 85.75 28 22 28 Thibault Magnin 41.25 21.75 38.50 79.75 29 28 11 Simo Peltola 49.75 41.75 72.00 72.00 30 16 27 James Woods 27.50 26.50 32.25 59.75 31 10 23 Teal Harle 26.50 24.25 20.25 46.75

Final

Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total 5 12 Birk Ruud 95.75 92.00 69.00 187.75 4 8 Colby Stevenson 34.75 91.75 91.25 183.00 19 9 Henrik Harlaut 86.00 90.00 91.00 181.00 4 8 10 Oliwer Magnusson 87.50 79.00 90.75 178.25 5 30 3 Leonardo Donaggio 91.00 81.00 17.25 172.00 6 25 4 Javier Lliso 51.25 89.00 82.50 171.50 7 13 1 Jesper Tjäder 77.25 78.25 92.00 170.25 8 3 11 Alex Hall 68.25 92.50 27.00 160.75 9 20 2 Evan McEachran 93.00 22.50 11.50 115.50 10 17 7 Christian Nummedal 26.00 93.00 17.50 110.50 11 6 5 Mac Forehand 60.75 19.50 42.00 80.25 12 24 6 Tormod Frostad 25.50 14.00 33.00 58.50

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