Overview
- Mac Forehand topped qualifying with a 183-point total from scores of 93.25 and 89.75, earning the last start slot in the Livigno final.
- Birk Ruud, the Beijing 2022 big air champion and this year’s slopestyle gold medalist, qualified third and described the final as likely to be tightly contested.
- Austria’s Matej Svancer qualified second, with New Zealand’s Luca Harrington among the 12 finalists, as the United States’ Troy Podmilsak also advanced.
- France’s Mathias Roche made the final after posting the event’s second-highest single-jump score of the night.
- Notable exits included American Alex Hall and Italy’s Miro Tabanelli, while Finland’s 18-year-old Elias Lajunen was hospitalized after a crash but was conscious and able to move.