A slight error on his first jump proved costly but Australian figure skater Brendan Kerry has at least enjoyed a better result in PyeongChang than Sochi.
Kerry has finished 20th in the men's single after scoring 150.75 in the medal-deciding free skate round, marked down when he popped his opening quad toe loop on Saturday.
He qualified for the decider a day earlier by taking 16th place in the short program, an improvement to the Winter Olympics four years ago when he was out in the first round.
He recorded an equal season-best free skate when he landed a triple lutz-triple toe loop, triple axel and triple axel-double toe loop.
"It feels like I've at least made up for that bad skate at Sochi. So that feels pretty sweet," he said.
His total score over the two rounds of 233.81 was 84.04 points off Japanese gold medal winner Yuzuru Hanyu, who was rewarded for landing a quad salchow-triple toe loop.
Japan's Shoma Uno took silver and Spaniard Javier Fernandez bronze.
Meanwhile, Australian short track speed skater Deanna Lockett has crashed out in the semi-finals of the 1500m.
The 22-year-old was caught behind the pack on the last lap and was clipped as she tried to make up ground, sending her sliding into the wall.
The world No.7 qualified second in her heat.
Elsewhere, Australian alpine skier Greta Small was almost three seconds off the pace to finish 31st in the super-G.
