The women's slopestyle competition in
freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, Mogul Skiing, moguls, Ski Cross, cross, Half-pipe skiing, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics. It can consist of a ...
at the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...
was held on 14 February (qualification) and 15 February (final), at the
Genting Snow Park in
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (), also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southwest ...
.
Originally scheduled for 13 February (qualification) and 14 February (final), the events were delayed due to weather.
Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland won the event, improving on her 2018 silver medal.
Eileen Gu of China won the silver medal, and
Kelly Sildaru of Estonia bronze. For Sildaru, it was the first Olympic medal. This was also the first Winter Olympics medal for Estonia since 2010.
The defending champion was
Sarah Höfflin, who returned but did not qualify for the final. The bronze medalist,
Isabel Atkin
Isabel Atkin (born 21 June 1998) is a British-American freestyle skier who competes internationally for Great Britain.
She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the first British Olympic medal in skiing.
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, qualified for the Olympics as well, but did not participate in the event. At the
2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, there were only three races held before the Olympics, and two of them were won by Sildaru who was leading the rankings. Gu was the
2021 X-Games winner, with Atkin second, and the
2021 world champion, with Gremaud second.
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 January 17, 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
: Q — Qualified for the Final
The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers move on to the medal round.
Final
Marin Hamill advanced to the final but could not compete due to an injury.
References
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Women's freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics