The men's moguls event in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia took place on the 10 February at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi.

The defending Olympic is Alexandre Bilodeau, while the defending world champion was Mikaël Kingsbury also of Canada. Bilodeau and Kingsbury took gold and silver, respectively. Alexandr Smyshlyaev of Russia won the bronze medal. Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medalist.

Qualification

An athlete must have placed in the top 30 in at a World Cup event after July 2012 or at the 2013 World Championships and a minimum of 80 FIS points. A total of 30 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 4 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee.

Guilbaut Colas of France withdrew after suffering a knee injury, which reduced the field to 29 athletes.

Results

Qualification In the first qualifying round, the ten best athletes directly qualify for the final. Others compete in the second qualification round.Qualification Results

Qualifying 1 QF — Qualified directly for the final QS — Qualified for the semifinal Bib — Bib number DNS — Did not start DNF — Did not finish Rank Bib Name Country Time Score Total NotesTurns Air Time 1 1 Alexandre Bilodeau 25.03 12.8 5.70 6.20 24.70 QF 2 2 Mikaël Kingsbury 25.75 12.5 5.45 5.86 23.81 QF 3 5 Alexandr Smyshlyaev 25.07 12.5 4.84 6.18 23.52 QF 4 4 Sho Endo 25.19 12.0 5.26 6.12 23.38 QF 5 7 Marc-Antoine Gagnon 25.44 11.6 5.30 6.00 22.90 QF 6 12 Philippe Marquis 25.65 11.2 5.32 5.91 22.43 QF 7 9 Dmitriy Reiherd 24.93 11.6 4.02 6.24 21.86 QF 8 6 Bradley Wilson 23.39 10.9 3.81 6.97 21.68 QF 9 28 Brodie Summers 25.73 10.8 4.89 5.87 21.56 QF 10 10 Matt Graham 24.36 10.2 4.82 6.51 21.53 QF 11 30 Pavel Kolmakov 25.73 11.0 4.53 5.87 21.40 12 38 Aleksey Pavlenko 24.88 10.2 4.31 6.27 20.78 13 16 Nobuyuki Nishi 24.98 10.6 3.85 6.22 20.67 14 35 Giacomo Matiz 26.48 10.7 4.40 5.51 20.61 15 25 Choi Jae-Woo 24.61 9.0 5.16 6.40 20.56 16 34 Ludvig Fjällström 26.33 10.2 4.60 5.58 20.38 17 32 Per Spett 25.05 9.0 5.05 6.19 20.24 18 37 Andrey Volkov 25.58 10.2 3.90 5.94 20.04 19 11 Dale Begg-Smith 25.06 9.7 3.86 6.18 19.74 20 27 Jimi Salonen 24.53 8.9 4.31 6.43 19.64 21 36 Sam Hall 24.52 8.7 3.65 6.44 18.79 22 21 Anthony Benna 24.15 8.8 3.05 6.61 18.46 23 24 Jussi Penttala 24.86 7.5 4.21 6.28 17.99 24 26 Sergey Volkov 27.64 3.6 2.20 4.97 10.77 25 3 Patrick Deneen 23.64 1.1 2.41 6.85 10.36 26 29 Arttu Kiramo 27.18 1.2 2.71 5.18 9.09 31 Dmitriy Barmashov DNF 19 Ville Miettunen DNF 33 Benjamin Cavet DNF

Qualifying 2 Rank Bib Name Country Time Score Total NotesTurns Air Time 1 3 Patrick Deneen 24.71 11.5 4.53 6.35 22.38 Q 2 25 Choi Jae-Woo 26.08 10.9 5.30 5.70 21.90 Q 3 27 Jimi Salonen 25.26 10.9 4.86 6.09 21.85 Q 4 30 Pavel Kolmakov 25.75 11.5 4.34 5.86 21.70 Q 5 37 Andrey Volkov 25.43 10.6 4.58 6.01 21.19 Q 6 38 Aleksey Pavlenko 25.61 11.0 4.04 5.92 20.96 Q 7 34 Ludvig Fjällström 25.44 9.9 4.60 6.00 20.50 Q 8 16 Nobuyuki Nishi 25.96 11.0 3.65 5.76 20.41 Q 9 33 Benjamin Cavet 25.37 9.4 4.68 6.04 20.12 Q 10 32 Per Spett 25.81 9.4 4.88 5.83 20.11 Q 11 35 Giacomo Matiz 26.64 9.7 3.96 5.44 19.10 12 29 Arttu Kiramo 26.17 9.1 3.97 5.66 18.73 13 21 Anthony Benna 24.24 6.7 3.65 6.57 16.92 14 36 Sam Hall 27.54 3.4 3.09 5.01 11.50 15 11 Dale Begg-Smith 28.39 2.3 2.74 4.61 9.35 16 31 Dmitriy Barmashov 32.87 0.3 2.41 2.50 5.21 24 Jussi Penttala DNF 26 Sergey Volkov DNF 19 Ville Miettunen DNS

Final The finals were started at 19:00.Final Results

Final 1 Rank Bib Name Country Time Score Total NotesTurns Air Time 1 5 Alexandr Smyshlyaev 25.14 12.7 5.52 6.15 24.37 Q 2 12 Philippe Marquis 24.58 12.4 5.51 6.41 24.32 Q 3 2 Mikaël Kingsbury 26.32 12.4 6.32 5.59 24.31 Q 4 7 Marc-Antoine Gagnon 25.79 11.8 5.81 5.84 23.45 Q 5 9 Dmitriy Reiherd 25.21 12.1 4.89 6.11 23.10 Q 6 33 Benjamin Cavet 25.85 11.5 5.66 5.81 22.97 Q 7 10 Matt Graham 24.85 11.4 4.81 6.28 22.49 Q 8 1 Alexandre Bilodeau 24.78 11.0 5.17 6.32 22.49 Q 9 3 Patrick Deneen 24.67 11.6 4.30 6.37 22.27 Q 10 25 Choi Jae-Woo 25.27 10.6 5.43 6.08 22.11 Q 11 30 Pavel Kolmakov 25.30 11.0 4.75 6.07 21.82 Q 12 32 Per Spett 25.17 10.9 4.78 6.13 21.81 Q 13 28 Brodie Summers 25.73 11.4 4.51 5.87 21.78 14 16 Nobuyuki Nishi 24.73 11.4 3.99 6.34 21.73 15 4 Sho Endo 25.53 10.6 5.17 5.96 21.73 16 38 Aleksey Pavlenko 24.90 10.8 4.60 6.26 21.66 17 37 Andrey Volkov 26.17 11.4 4.58 5.66 21.64 18 27 Jimi Salonen 24.77 9.5 4.93 6.32 20.75 19 34 Ludvig Fjällström 25.30 9.5 4.26 6.07 19.83 20 6 Bradley Wilson 24.83 1.5 2.11 6.29 9.90

Final 2 Rank Bib Name Country Time Score Total NotesTurns Air Time 1 2 Mikaël Kingsbury 26.37 12.5 6.47 5.57 24.54 Q 2 7 Marc-Antoine Gagnon 25.61 12.2 6.04 5.92 24.16 Q 3 1 Alexandre Bilodeau 25.91 12.2 5.91 5.78 23.89 Q 4 5 Alexandr Smyshlyaev 25.22 12.6 5.14 6.11 23.85 Q 5 9 Dmitriy Reiherd 24.71 12.2 4.93 6.35 23.48 Q 6 3 Patrick Deneen 24.00 11.7 4.94 6.68 23.32 Q 7 10 Matt Graham 25.08 12.1 5.04 6.17 23.31 8 33 Benjamin Cavet 26.31 11.0 5.87 5.59 22.46 9 12 Philippe Marquis 24.07 10.1 5.50 6.65 22.25 10 30 Pavel Kolmakov 25.73 10.7 3.46 5.87 20.03 11 32 Per Spett 27.39 3.5 4.88 5.09 13.47 25 Choi Jae-Woo DNF

Final 3 Rank Bib Name Country Time Score Total NotesTurns Air Time 1 Alexandre Bilodeau 24.81 13.1 6.91 6.30 26.31 2 Mikaël Kingsbury 25.25 12.0 6.62 6.09 24.71 5 Alexandr Smyshlyaev 24.94 12.4 5.70 6.24 24.34 4 7 Marc-Antoine Gagnon 25.56 11.5 5.90 5.95 23.35 5 9 Dmitriy Reiherd 24.21 11.4 4.82 6.58 22.80 6 3 Patrick Deneen 23.83 11.0 4.40 6.76 22.16

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