Three Japanese women ranked within the top six qualifiers at the end of their runs on Wednesday during the Beijing Olympic snowboard halfpipe competition.
Mitsuki Ono led the way behind only American Chloe Kim, with the Japanese scoring 83.75 points in her second run which was four points short of Kim's qualifer-topping opening run.
Ono opened her run with a frontside 900 and added in back-to-back 720s to better her first effort which garnered 79.50 from the judges.
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