Norway's Birk Ruud celebrates winning the freestyle skiing men's freeski big air final during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing on Feb 9, 2022. (SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

BEIJING - Birk Ruud of Norway claimed the gold medal in the men's freeski big air of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games at Big Air Shougang on Wednesday.

With 95.75 and 92.00 points from his first two runs, Ruud had already secured the gold before the final run with a combined score of 187.75.

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Colby Stevenson of the United States and Henrik Harlaut of Sweden took the silver and bronze, respectively.