Ben Lynch has completed in eighth place within the Finals of the Males’s Freestyle Snowboarding Halfpipe on the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno on Friday night time.
The Irishman posted a powerful rating of 75.00 within the remaining run of the occasion. Lynch’s end result marks one of many strongest Olympic performances by an Irish winter athlete to this point.
Alex Ferreira of america received gold within the males’s freestyle snowboarding halfpipe competitors with a rating of 93.75. The US Olympian accomplished his Olympic medal set having beforehand received silver (2018) and bronze (2022). Silver went to Henry Sildaru from Estonia with a greatest rating of 93.00, whereas Brendan Mackay of Canada claimed bronze with a 91.00 third run.
Lynch “couldn’t be extra comfortable”
Reflecting on the importance of tonight’s end result, Ben Lynch mentioned:
“It feels actually cool, particularly as a result of eight is my fortunate quantity. My birthday is September eighth. I received eight stitches above my eyebrow right here, so eight has all the time been my fortunate quantity and the truth that I simply received eight, the celebs align.
“It undoubtedly nonetheless feels surreal, nevertheless it’s sinking in somewhat bit. Yeah, it’s fairly cool as a result of my final greatest end result was 16, so I’ve that on the Olympics and couldn’t be extra comfortable to be right here.”
Pivotal third run
Lynch’s third run was his pivotal one, placing him proper up the rating board, as he defined:
“The third run, I used to be actually nervous on the prime. I felt very ready, however clearly the nerves had been on. My household’s right here, everybody was watching, and I hadn’t landed my first two runs. However yeah, simply tried actually exhausting to deal with the run, not fear concerning the end result, and I ended up touchdown it just about pretty much as good as I presumably might have, and I’m actually, actually excited.
“I feel earlier than this, I’d solely gotten across the sixties in World Cups. It’s exhausting to get excessive scores in world stage, world Cup stage, however yeah, that’s the perfect rating I’ve ever gotten. I additionally received down qualifier 75, so simply so stoked.”
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