On February 16, the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing men's aerial skills final came to an end, with two players from the Chinese team, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu. In the end, Jia Zongyang did not qualify for the finals, Qi Guangpu won the championship with 129.00 points in the finals, the first winter Olympic gold medal of his career, and the 7th gold of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics, congratulations.
Format of the final: 12 players participate, each player jumps 2 times, to the best result to rank, the top 6 to enter the second round of the final. There are 6 players in the grand final, and the winner is determined by one jump.
Round 1 Jump 1:
Jia Zongyang's action difficulty coefficient is 4.425, the air posture is very good, the landing is relatively stable, scoring 123.45 points, ranking 5th after the first jump;
The difficulty coefficient of Qi Guangpu's action is 4.425, the integrity is very good, there are no mistakes, he scored 125.22 points, ranking 3rd after the first jump;
Round 1 Jump 2:
Jia Zongyang was ranked 7th when he came on the scene, he had to get a better result than his first jump, and as a result, he fell directly when he landed, and the veteran ranked 7th and missed the finals.
Qi Guangpu had already determined that he could advance to the Final Battle before he jumped, and he scored 114.48 points along the way.
Grand Final:
Qi Guangpu's 5.0 action difficulty, the aerial posture is very good, the landing is also quite stable, scoring 129.00 points, the whole audience cheered.
Jia Zongyang is 31 years old, this is his 4th Winter Olympics, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang won 6th place in the freestyle ski men's aerial skills. He won bronze at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao won the silver medal for the freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team.
Qi Guangpu is a year older than Jia Zongyang and a veteran, and his previous best result at the Winter Olympics was 4th place at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. In the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing men's aerial skills qualification tournament, Qi Guangpu ranked first and performed very strongly.
Finally, congratulations to Qi Guangpu for the success of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the 31-year-old veteran proved himself at his doorstep.