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Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympic Games Freestyle skiing

Aerials Men:

1. Aleš Valenta (CZE)
2. Joe Pack (USA)
3. Aleksey Grishin (BLR)

Valenta completed five twists in three flips to take the gold, while defending Olympic champion Janne Lahtela (FIN)

1. Travis Mayer (USA)
2. Richard Gay (FRA)

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

Jonny Moseley, the defending Olympic champion and crowd favorite performed his unusual Alisa Camplin (AUS)

1. Veronica Brenner (CAN)
2. Deidra Dionne (CAN)

The second Australian winter gold was by Camplin instead of Kari Traa (NOR)

1. Shannon Bahrke (USA)
2. Tae Satoya (JPN)