| Date | 8 – 11 February 1998 — 11:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Iizuna Kogen Resort, Iizuna | |
| Format | Top 16 finishers advanced to final. | |
| Judge #1 (Turns) | Harry Ganja | CAN |
| Judge #2 (Turns) | Martine Kohly | FRA |
| Judge #3 (Turns) | Miki Miyazaki | JPN |
| Judge #4 (Turns) | Morten Skarpaas | NOR |
| Judge #5 (Turns) | Philip Richard | SUI |
| Judge #6 (Air) | Reinhard Krampfl | GER |
| Judge #7 (Air) | Hans Kasnik | AUT |
| Attendance | 4,997 | |
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Points | Turns Points | Air Points | Time Points | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Jonny Moseley | USA | 26.53 | 13.2 | 7.20 | 6.13 | 25.78 | |||
| 2 | 13 | Janne Lahtela | FIN | 25.43 | 13.3 | 6.52 | 5.61 | 27.58 | |||
| 3 | 16 | Sami Mustonen | FIN | 25.16 | 13.0 | 6.52 | 5.64 | 27.47 | |||
| 4 | 29 | Kurre Lansburgh | SWE | 25.14 | 13.2 | 6.55 | 5.39 | 28.31 | |||
| 5 | 19 | Ryan Johnson | CAN | 25.12 | 12.6 | 7.03 | 5.49 | 27.98 | |||
| 6 | 21 | Thony Hemery | FRA | 25.06 | 13.5 | 5.55 | 6.01 | 26.18 | |||
| 7 | 27 | Jean-Luc Brassard | CAN | 24.73 | 13.1 | 5.97 | 5.66 | 27.40 | |||
| 8 | 2 | Stéphane Rochon | CAN | 24.62 | 13.1 | 6.07 | 5.45 | 28.11 | |||
| 9 | 26 | Lauri Lassila | FIN | 24.53 | 13.2 | 6.15 | 5.18 | 29.03 | |||
| 10 | 17 | Alex Wilson | USA | 24.32 | 12.2 | 6.67 | 5.45 | 28.10 | |||
| 11 | 18 | Fabrice Ougier | FRA | 24.26 | 12.4 | 6.30 | 5.56 | 27.72 | |||
| 12 | 8 | Julien Regnier-Lafforgue | FRA | 24.20 | 13.0 | 5.77 | 5.43 | 28.20 | |||
| 13 | 32 | Patrik Sundberg | SWE | 24.19 | 12.2 | 6.30 | 5.69 | 27.30 | |||
| 14 | 12 | Jesper Rönnbäck | SWE | 24.16 | 12.4 | 6.22 | 5.54 | 27.81 | |||
| 15 | 25 | Gota Miura | JPN | 24.14 | 12.9 | 6.04 | 5.20 | 28.97 | |||
| 16 | 11 | Daigo Hara | JPN | 24.04 | 12.6 | 6.37 | 5.07 | 29.42 | |||
| 17 | 15 | Dominick Gauthier | CAN | 23.90 | 13.1 | 5.37 | 5.43 | 28.19 | |||
| 18 | 14 | Yugo Tsukita | JPN | 23.81 | 12.1 | 5.62 | 6.09 | 25.90 | |||
| 19 | 10 | Armen Rafayelyan | ARM | 23.49 | 12.2 | 5.17 | 6.12 | 25.81 | |||
| 20 | 6 | Olivier Cotte | FRA | 23.46 | 12.1 | 6.07 | 5.29 | 28.66 | |||
| 21 | 5 | Adrian Costa | AUS | 23.45 | 11.1 | 6.37 | 5.98 | 26.29 | |||
| 22 | 23 | Roger Hållander | SWE | 23.35 | 11.6 | 5.92 | 5.83 | 26.80 | |||
| 23 | 1 | Jim Moran | USA | 22.90 | 11.5 | 5.93 | 5.47 | 28.05 | |||
| 24 | 3 | Yevgeny Sennikov | RUS | 22.76 | 11.3 | 6.00 | 5.46 | 28.08 | |||
| 25 | 28 | Richard Ussher | NZL | 20.75 | 11.1 | 5.32 | 4.33 | 31.96 | |||
| 26 | 33 | Aleksey Bannikov | KAZ | 20.18 | 9.9 | 5.10 | 5.18 | 29.06 | |||
| 27 | 22 | Andrey Ivanov | RUS | 18.73 | 7.2 | 5.85 | 5.68 | 27.34 | |||
| 28 | 4 | Tim Dudgeon | GBR | 16.32 | 8.3 | 3.88 | 4.14 | 32.64 | |||
| 29 | 20 | Aleh Kulieshou | BLR | 11.13 | 3.0 | 4.50 | 3.63 | 34.37 | |||
| 30 | 30 | Takehiro Sakamoto | JPN | 8.68 | 2.0 | 4.12 | 2.56 | 38.07 | |||
| 31 | 24 | Evan Dybvig | USA | 4.55 | 1.7 | 2.85 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| 9 | Vitaly Glushchenko | RUS | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 31 | Sam Temple | GBR | – | – | – | – | – |