Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's halfpipe

Women's halfpipe at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle skiing
Venue	Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou
Date	17, 18 February
Competitors	20 from 10 nations
Winning score	95.25
Medalists
Eileen Gu  China Cassie Sharpe  Canada Rachael Karker  Canada

The women's halfpipe competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February (qualification) and 18 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.[1] Eileen Gu of China won the event. The defending champion, Cassie Sharpe of Canada, returned and won silver. Rachael Karker of Canada won bronze, her first Olympic medal.

The 2018 silver medalist, Marie Martinod, retired from competitions, and the bronze medalist, Brita Sigourney, returned and placed tenth. At the 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, there were four events held before the Olympics, all won by Eileen Gu. Gu was therefore the first in the ranking, followed by Hanna Faulhaber and Karker. Gu was also the 2021 X-Games winner in super-pipe, as well as the 2021 world champion.

Qualification

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 25 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. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.[2]

Results

Qualification

Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers moved on to the medal round.[3]

Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Notes
1	1	3	Eileen Gu	China	93.75	95.50	95.50	Q
2	3	2	Rachael Karker	Canada	88.50	89.50	89.50	Q
3	8	9	Kelly Sildaru	Estonia	87.50	DNS	87.50	Q
4	2	5	Zoe Atkin	Great Britain	85.25	86.75	86.75	Q
5	6	15	Zhang Kexin	China	77.50	86.50	86.50	Q
6	4	4	Cassie Sharpe	Canada	86.25	79.00	86.25	Q
7	9	16	Li Fanghui	China	84.75	19.25	84.75	Q
8	7	8	Brita Sigourney	United States	80.50	84.50	84.50	Q
9	5	1	Hanna Faulhaber	United States	84.25	82.00	84.25	Q
10	12	17	Carly Margulies	United States	79.00	82.25	82.25	Q
11	15	13	Amy Fraser	Canada	75.25	75.75	75.75	Q
12	13	20	Sabrina Cakmakli	Germany	71.50	36.50	71.50	Q
13	10	18	Devin Logan	United States	71.00	62.00	71.00
14	17	7	Alexandra Glazkova	ROC	67.00	69.25	69.25
15	14	19	Saori Suzuki	Japan	68.75	66.25	68.75
16	16	6	Wu Meng	China	12.50	67.75	67.75
17	20	10	Kim Da-eun	South Korea	44.50	45.50	45.50
18	18	14	Chloe McMillan	New Zealand	41.75	43.50	43.50
19	21	12	Anja Barugh	New Zealand	38.50	12.25	38.50
20	11	11	Jang Yu-jin	South Korea	3.75	4.25	4.25

Final

Rank	Bib	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best[4]
	1	12	Eileen Gu	China	93.25	95.25	30.00	95.25
	4	7	Cassie Sharpe	Canada	89.00	90.00	90.75	90.75
	3	11	Rachael Karker	Canada	87.75	85.25	38.00	87.75
4	8	10	Kelly Sildaru	Estonia	80.25	87.00	85.00	87.00
5	9	6	Li Fanghui	China	81.75	86.50	16.75	86.50
6	5	4	Hanna Faulhaber	United States	85.25	84.50	19.00	85.25
7	6	8	Zhang Kexin	China	78.75	25.75	3.25	78.75
8	15	2	Amy Fraser	Canada	75.25	35.75	11.00	75.25
9	2	9	Zoe Atkin	Great Britain	18.75	10.75	73.25	73.25
10	7	5	Brita Sigourney	United States	70.75	60.00	12.25	70.75
11	12	3	Carly Margulies	United States	24.75	1.75	61.00	61.00
12	13	1	Sabrina Cakmakli	Germany	40.00	54.00	42.75	54.00

References

1. Minji Seo (2021-06-16). "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-12-24.
2. "Qualification System for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Freestyle Skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
3. Qualification results
4. Final results