Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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Contents 1 Men's Events 1.1 Men's aerials 1.2 Men's moguls 2 Women's Events 2.1 Women's aerials 2.2 Women's moguls 3 External links 4 Sources

[edit] Men's Events

[edit] Men's aerials

February 19, 2002

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Aleš Valenta (CZE)	257.02
Silver	Joe Pack (USA)	251.64
Bronze	Alexei Grichin (BLR)	251.19
4th	Jeff Bean (CAN)	250.97
5th	Stanislav Kravchuk (UKR)	246.30
6th	Brian Currutt (USA)	245.19
7th	Dmitri Dashinski (BLR)	244.29
8th	Andrew Capicik (CAN)	243.78

Valenta completed five twists in three flips to take the gold, while defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust, in first place after the first jump, fell on the second after jumping too hard and ended up in last place.^[1]

[edit] Men's moguls

February 12, 2002

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Janne Lahtela (FIN)	27.97
Silver	Travis Mayer (USA)	27.59
Bronze	Richard Gay (FRA)	26.91
4th	Jonny Moseley (USA)	26.78
5th	Tapio Luusua (FIN)	26.67
6th	Scott Bellavance (CAN)	26.55
7th	Ryan Johnson (CAN)	26.55
8th	Mikko Ronkanen (FIN)	26.49

Before a crowd of 14,237, Lahtela performed a near-flawless run with a quad twist and triple twist spread to win the gold.^[2]

Jonny Moseley, the defending Olympic champion and crowd favorite performed his unusual Dinner Roll jump in both the preliminary and final rounds but was slower than the medalists, and finished fourth.^[3]

[edit] Women's Events

[edit] Women's aerials

February 18, 2002

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Alisa Camplin (AUS)	193.47
Silver	Veronica Brenner (CAN)	190.02
Bronze	Deidra Dionne (CAN)	189.26
4th	Olga Koroleva (RUS)	188.37
5th	Li Nina (CHN)	185.23
6th	Anna Zukal (RUS)	174.24
7th	Natalya Orekhova (RUS)	170.54
8th	Lydia Ierodiakonou (AUS)	169.38

The second Australian winter gold was by Camplin instead of Jacqui Cooper, who injured herself before the competition.

[edit] Women's moguls

February 9, 2002

Medal	Athlete	Score
Gold	Kari Traa (NOR)	25.94
Silver	Shannon Bahrke (USA)	25.06
Bronze	Tae Satoya (JPN)	24.85
4th	Jennifer Heil (CAN)	24.84
5th	Hannah Hardaway (USA)	24.77
6th	Aiko Uemura (JPN)	24.66
7th	Ann Battelle (USA)	24.62
8th	Sandra Laoura (FRA)	24.12

[edit] External links

• Freestyle Skiing History: Olympics 1988-2002

[edit] Sources

1. ^ Extra Twist Does the Trick in Aerials, The New York Times, February 20, 2002
2. ^ Moseley Gets the Cheers, but Lahtela Gets the Hardware, The New York Times, February 12, 2002
3. ^ Making a Mountain Out of a Dinner Roll, The New York Times, February 13, 2002

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