Just two American male freeskiers qualified for the finals Friday during the VISA Big Air competition at Steamboat Resort.

Alex Hall of Park City finished second in the second heat with a score of 94.66, while U.S. National Team teammate Colby Stevenson of Park City took fifth with a score of 90.66. The finals will take place at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

For the competition, each competitor in each heat takes two jumps. Three judges score each jump and their scores are averaged. The best jump score is used to determine the standings.

Christian Nummedal of Norway won the heat with a 96 and qualified alongside Oliwer Magnusson of Sweden and Matej Svancer of Austria.

Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut won with a 97 and qualified with Antoine Adelisse of France, Ben Barclay of New Zealand, Birk Ruud and Tormod Frostad of Norway.

American Cody Laplante and Hunter Henderson were the No. 6 guys in each heat, just missing out on qualifying spots.

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Tess Ledeux of France won the women’s freeski qualifier with a score of 95.75. No female freeskier from the United States qualified. Darian Stevens, who calls Park City home, was the closest in 11th.

In the women’s competition, each competitor in each heat took two jumps. Six judges scored the jump, and the highest and lowest scores were scratched. The remaining four scores were averaged. The best jump score was used to determine the standings.

Sarah Hoefflin of Switzerland, Johanne Killi of Norway, Elieen Gu of China, Canadians Elena Gaskell and Olivia Asselin also qualified alongside Sandra Eie of Norway and Switzerland’s Giulia Tanno.

VISA Big Air concludes Saturday with the snowboard finals commencing at 10:30 a.m. and running through noon. Freeski finals begin at 1:30 p.m.

Shelby Reardon is the assistant editor at the Steamboat Pilot & Today. To reach her, call 970-871-4253, email sreardon@SteamboatPilot.com or follow her on Twitter @ByShelbyReardon.