Men's Freestyle Skiing Results Olympics 2022: Moguls Medal Winners

Sweden's Walter Wallberg captured the gold medal in the men's freestyle skiing moguls at the 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park in China.

Wallberg, who narrowly missed the event's final four years ago in the 2018 Games, edged out defending gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada on Saturday for the top spot on the podium this time around.

Here's a look at the results:

• Gold: Walter Wallberg (SWE): 83.23
• Silver: Mikael Kingsbury (CAN): 82.18
• Bronze: Ikuma Horishima (JPN): 81.48

The result came as a surprise, even to the 21-year-old Swede, who said before the Olympics he didn't think he was on Kingsbury's level quite yet.

"I feel like there's still a small gap between me and Mikael. I have some things to work on, especially on the jumping, but I'm skiing pretty well and I need to close that gap," Wallberg told Reuters' Winni Zhou and Mari Saito on Wednesday.

Anything can happen in a single event, however, and the difference Saturday was time.

Wallberg finished the course 1.3 seconds quicker than his Canadian counterpart on the final run, which represented a key point advantage (+1.74). He also held a slight edge in the air score (+0.11) to overcome Kingsbury's strong showing on the turns (+0.8).

Horishima rounded out the podium, a result he felt was necessary in order to keep competing in moguls in the future. Now he's setting his sights on Italy in 2026.

"I gave it my all," the 24-year-old Japanese skier said. "My real dream is the gold so I'm going to keep working towards that.”

Nick Page, 19, was the only member of Team USA to reach the last run of the finals. He finished fifth with a score of 78.90.

France's Benjamin Cavet (fourth; 79.44) and Australia's Cooper Woods-Topalovic (sixth; 78.88) were the other finalists.

Next up on the freestyle skiing schedule is the women's moguls on Sunday.