The Women's moguls event in

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at the

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took place at the

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from 9 to 11 February 2018. It was won by

Perrine Laffont Perrine Laffont (born 28 October 1998) is a French mogul skier and the 2017 Dual Moguls world champion and moguls silver medalist. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in the moguls event, and was back-to-back overall winner o ...

, with

Justine Dufour-Lapointe Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born March 25, 1994) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She was the Olympic champion in the moguls event at the 2014 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in moguls at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The gold and silver she and ...

taking silver and

Yuliya Galysheva Yulia Evgenievna Galysheva (russian: Юлия Евгеньевна Галышева, born 23 October 1992) is a Kazakhstani mogul skier who won three medals at FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships, bronze medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic ...

taking bronze. For Laffont and Galysheva these were first Olympic medals. Galysheva also won the first ever medal in Kazakhstan in freestyle skiing. The field included the defending champion,

, and the 2014 silver medalist and her sister, Chloé Dufour-Lapointe. Both advanced to Final 1, but only Justine advanced further to Final 2 (and eventually to Final 3). With

Andi Naude Andi Naude (born January 10, 1996) is a Canadians, Canadian freestyle skiing, freestyle skier. She competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Canada in Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's m ...

, who had the highest total score in Final 2, skiing off the course, and

Britteny Cox Britteny Cox (born 29 September 1994) is an Australian mogul skier. Growing up in the Victorian alpine resort of Falls Creek, Cox was born into a mogul skiing environment, with her family passionate mogul skiers. Cox was the youngest athlete ...

and

Jakara Anthony Jakara Anthony, (born 8 July 1998) is an Australian freestyle skier and Olympic gold medalist. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 4th, the best-ever result for an Australian female mogul skier. Anthony won the Women's Moguls ev ...

posting total scores well below their performance in Final 2, Galysheva, Dufour-Lapointe, and Laffont consecutively came to the lead and took the podium. In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Tony Estanguet, member of the

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accompanied by Michel Vion, FIS council member.

Qualification

The top 30 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified, with a maximum of four athletes per

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(NOC) allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event or the

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during the qualification period (July 1, 2016 to January 21, 2018) and also have a minimum of 80 FIS points to compete. If the host country,

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did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met.

Results

Qualification

In the first qualifying round, the ten best athletes directly qualified for the final. Others competed in the second qualification round.

Qualifying 1

: QF — Qualified directly for the final : QS — Qualified for the semifinal : Bib — Bib number : DNF — Did not finish : DNS — Did not start

Qualifying 2

: QF — Qualified for the final : Bib — Bib number : DNF — Did not finish : DNS — Did not start

Final

Final 1

In the first final round, the 12 best athletes qualified for the second final round. : Q — Qualified for next round

Final 2

In the second final round, the six best athletes qualified for the third final round. : Q — Qualified for next round

Final 3

The third final round determined the medalists.Final results
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References

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