The men's big air competition in freestyle skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held on 15 February (qualification) and 17 February (final), at the Livigno Snow Park in Valtellina. Tormod Frostad of Norway won the event, Mac Forehand of the United States won the silver medal, and Matěj Švancer of Austria won bronze. All of them became the first-time Olympic medalists.

Background The defending champion, Birk Ruud, qualified for the event. The 2022 silver medalist, Colby Stevenson, and the bronze medalist, Henrik Harlaut, did not participate. There were only three events in 2025–26 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in big air before the Olympics; two were won by Troy Podmilsak and the third one by Ulrik Samnøy. Podmilsak was leading the World Cup standings. Luca Harrington was the 2025 World champion.

Qualification

Results Qualification Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advance to the Final. +Qualification results Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Notes 1 9 5 Mac Forehand 93.25 89.75 183.00 Q 2 5 1 Matěj Švancer 92.50 90.00 182.25 Q 3 2 9 Birk Ruud 90.75 90.25 181.00 Q 4 6 6 Tormod Frostad 22.50 96.25 84.00 180.25 Q 5 4 8 Luca Harrington 84.25 92.00 87.75 179.75 Q 6 22 25 Matias Roche 95.25 21.00 83.25 178.50 Q 7 12 18 Timothé Sivignon 93.00 85.00 178.00 Q 8 14 11 Ulrik Samnøy 87.00 89.00 176.00 Q 9 11 16 Dylan Deschamps 85.00 84.25 90.50 175.50 Q 10 1 3 Troy Podmilsak 89.00 85.00 174.00 Q 11 28 27 Martin Nordqvist 90.00 80.75 83.50 173.50 Q 12 17 15 Konnor Ralph 86.75 25.75 85.00 171.75 Q 13 20 17 Fabian Bösch 82.00 84.75 88.00 170.00 14 23 22 Kuura Koivisto 78.75 88.25 80.75 169.00 15 10 4 Elias Syrjä 82.25 78.75 85.75 164.50 16 21 28 Kim Gubser 83.50 79.00 162.50 17 25 23 Nils Rhyner 77.00 53.50 73.25 150.25 18 24 26 Julius Forer 83.00 61.25 42.00 144.25 19 13 12 Ben Barclay 70.50 69.00 139.50 20 15 13 Sebastian Schjerve 32.75 49.75 81.75 131.50 21 27 21 Chris McCormick 31.25 70.00 57.75 127.75 22 19 14 Henry Sildaru 17.00 42.00 80.00 122.00 23 18 20 Jesper Tjäder 60.75 55.75 116.50 24 26 29 Lucas Ball 24.75 44.25 90.00 114.75 25 8 7 Miro Tabanelli 91.00 21.25 112.25 26 3 10 Alex Hall 43.25 84.00 12.50 96.50 27 7 2 Andri Ragettli 19.75 22.50 82.00 82.00 28 16 19 Evan McEachran 12.25 18.25 34.50 52.75 29 29 24 Elias Lajunen 9.00 9.00

Final

+Final results Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Notes 6 9 Tormod Frostad 95.25 97.00 98.50 195.50 9 12 Mac Forehand 95.00 95.00 98.25 193.25 5 11 Matěj Švancer 91.75 95.25 96.00 191.25 4 1 3 Troy Podmilsak 90.50 73.75 94.00 184.50 5 17 1 Konnor Ralph 86.50 16.75 91.50 178.00 6 4 8 Luca Harrington 94.00 25.75 66.50 160.50 7 11 4 Dylan Deschamps 20.75 91.00 46.50 137.50 8 2 10 Birk Ruud 95.00 23.25 118.25 9 14 5 Ulrik Samnøy 21.75 84.25 26.50 110.75 10 22 7 Matias Roche 18.75 85.25 17.75 103.00 11 12 6 Timothé Sivignon 46.50 33.75 80.25 12 28 2 Martin Nordqvist 16.75 19.25 38.75 58.00

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