Alex Ferreira made a podium in Olympic qualifying four years ago but was left off the team for Sochi. What he did on Friday puts him very close to making it to PyeongChang.
The 23-year-old won the third of five Olympic qualifiers in Breckenridge, Colo.
The 2017 Winter X Games champ Aaron Blunck was second, which crowds the Olympic qualifying picture. Full results are here.
It takes a pair of top-three results among the five selection events for an automatic Olympic berth.
Five different U.S. men now have a single top-three result — Ferreira, Blunck, Olympic champion David Wise, Sochi Olympian Torin Yater-Wallace and Sochi slopestyle silver medalist Gus Kenworthy.