Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's moguls
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The Men's Moguls event in freestyle skiing
at the 2006 Winter Olympics
in Turin
, Italy
took place on February 15 at Sauze d'Oulx
.
, the top qualifier and final starter, just beating Mikko Ronkainen
for the gold medal.
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...
at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...
in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
took place on February 15 at Sauze d'Oulx
Sauze d'Oulx
Sauze d'Oulx is a town and comune in the province of Turin, Piedmont located 80 kilometres from Turin in the Val di Susa, at the foot of monte Genevris ....
.
Qualification
The qualification round took place on the afternoon of February 15, with 35 skiers competing. The top 20 advanced to the final.Rank | Name | Country | Score | Notes |
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1 | Dale Begg-Smith Dale Begg-Smith Dale Begg-Smith is an Australian-Canadian freestyle skier. Begg-Smith won the gold medal for Australia, his adopted country, in the men's moguls event at the 2006 Winter Olympics and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics... |
25.40 | Q | |
2 | Travis Cabral | 24.88 | Q | |
3 | Marc-Andre Moreau Marc-André Moreau Marc-André Moreau is a Canadian freestyle skier.Moreau, a mogulist has placed in the top-3 in World Cup events on three occasions... |
24.69 | Q | |
4 | Jeremy Bloom Jeremy Bloom Jeremy Ryan Bloom is a three-time World Champion, two-time Olympian and eleven-time World Cup gold medalist in freestyle moguls skiing. In 2005, he won a record six straight World Cup events, the most in a single season in the sport's history.... |
24.51 | Q | |
5 | Guilbaut Colas Guilbaut Colas Guilbaut Colas is a French Mogul skier who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and has seven World Cup victories. Born in Échirolles, Colas has competed for his nation in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Men's Moguls. Although he had the best time his "air score" was not as good and he finished sixth... |
24.33 | Q | |
6 | Toby Dawson Toby Dawson Toby Dawson is an American mogul skier. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Toby Dawson is a featured athlete on the sports medicine show Athlete 360.-Early life:Dawson was born in Busan, South Korea as Kim Bong-seok.... |
24.20 | Q | |
7 | Travis Mayer Travis Mayer Travis Mayer is an olympic-level Freestyle Skier. He won the silver medal in the moguls competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics and also competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Travis grew up skiing in Western New York at Holiday Valley and across the Northeast as a member of the Holiday Valley... |
24.04 | Q | |
8 | Jesper Bjoernlund | 23.97 | Q | |
9 | Chris Wong | 23.89 | Q | |
10 | Janne Lahtela Janne Lahtela Janne Lahtela is a Finnish former athlete, who established himself as one of the most dominant persons in the history of moguls skiing. He is currently the head coach of Japan's freestyle skiing team... |
23.77 | Q | |
11 | Alexandre Bilodeau Alexandre Bilodeau Alexandre Bilodeau is a Canadian freestyle skier from Montreal, Quebec. Bilodeau currently resides in Rosemère, Quebec. Bilodeau won a gold medal in the men's moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, becoming the first Canadian to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Canada after... |
23.75 | Q | |
12 | Christoph Stark | 23.65 | Q | |
13 | Mikko Ronkainen Mikko Ronkainen Mikko Ronkainen is a freestyle skier from Finland. He is a two-time World Champion and won the moguls World Cup during the 2000-2001 season. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Ronkainen won a silver medal.-References:... |
23.38 | Q | |
14 | Pierre Ochs | 23.19 | Q | |
15 | Osamu Ueno | 23.03 | Q | |
16 | Nick Fisher | 22.89 | Q | |
17 | Fredrik Fortkord | 22.87 (3.0) | Q | |
18 | Walter Bormolini | 22.87 (2.0) | Q | |
19 | Juuso Lahtela | 22.31 | Q | |
20 | Alexandr Smyshlyaev Alexandr Smyshlyaev Alexandr Smyshlyaev is a Russian freestyle skier who specializes in the moguls discipline.- External links :*... |
22.18 | Q | |
21 | Simone Galli | 21.98 | ||
22 | Sami Mustonen Sami Mustonen Sami Mustonen is a Finnish freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, in moguls.-References:... |
21.57 | ||
23 | Per Spett | 21.53 | ||
24 | Michael Robertson | 21.52 | ||
25 | Artem Valinteev | 21.51 | ||
26 | Silvan Palazot | 21.29 | ||
27 | Ruslan Sharifullin | 21.24 | ||
28 | Gerhard Bloechl | 21.16 | ||
29 | Jason Begg-Smith Jason Begg-Smith Jason Begg-Smith is an Australian freestyle skier, who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. He finished in 29th place. He is also the older brother of Olympic Gold Medalist Dale Begg-Smith.... |
20.22 | ||
30 | Kai Ozaki | 19.7 | ||
31 | Claudio Bosia | 19.62 | ||
32 | Yugo Tsukita | 19.13 | ||
33 | Dmitriy Reiherd | 18.33 | ||
34 | Mattia Pegorari | 16.25 | ||
35 | Vitali Glushchenko | 12.75 |
Final
The final took place on the evening of February 15, with Dale Begg-SmithDale Begg-Smith
Dale Begg-Smith is an Australian-Canadian freestyle skier. Begg-Smith won the gold medal for Australia, his adopted country, in the men's moguls event at the 2006 Winter Olympics and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics...
, the top qualifier and final starter, just beating Mikko Ronkainen
Mikko Ronkainen
Mikko Ronkainen is a freestyle skier from Finland. He is a two-time World Champion and won the moguls World Cup during the 2000-2001 season. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Ronkainen won a silver medal.-References:...
for the gold medal.
Rank | Athlete | Score |
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26.77 | ||
26.62 | ||
26.30 | ||
4 | 25.62 | |
5 | 25.21 | |
6 | 25.17 | |
7 | 24.91 | |
8 | 24.42 | |
9 | 24.38 | |
10 | 23.60 | |
11 | 23.42 | |
12 | 23.39 | |
13 | 23.22 | |
14 | 22.88 | |
15 | 22.84 | |
16 | 22.65 | |
17 | 21.37 | |
18 | 21.36 | |
19 | 20.58 | |
20 | 19.54 |