Japan's Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi progressed to the final of the women's snowboard slopestyle at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, but Miyabi Onitsuka was eliminated in qualifying.
Murase, the youngest member of the Japan delegation at age 17, landed the day's second-highest score of 81.45 points and Iwabuchi was 11th with 67.00, but Onitsuka, who put her hands down in both runs, was not among the top 12 riders who move on to Sunday's final.
The Japanese are all slopestyle World Cup winners and all three headed to Beijing as medal contenders. Murase is competing in her first Olympics, while Iwabuchi and Onitsuka are in their second.