Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Snowboarding
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Snowboarding pictogram
Venue
Dates5–15 February 2022
No. of events11 (5 men, 5 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors238

Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou and Big Air Shougang in Beijing, China. The events are scheduled to take place between 5 and 15 February 2022. A total of 11 snowboarding events will be held.[1]

In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the mixed team snowboard cross event to the Olympic program, increasing the total number of events to 11.[2][3]

A total of 238 quota spots were distributed to the sport of snowboarding, a decline of 20 from the 2018 Winter Olympics.[4] A total of 11 events were contested, five for men, five for women and one mixed.[5]

Qualification

A total of 238 athletes are scheduled to qualify to compete in the snowboarding events (119 men and 119 women). A country can enter a maximum of 26 athletes across all events, with a maximum of 14 per gender. A total of eight quotas (one per event) is reserved for the host nation, if it fails to qualify in that respective event. Each event also has a minimum FIS points total required per athlete, along with a top 30 finish at a World Cup event during the qualification period (1 July 2019 or 2020 in Parallel giant slalom, to 16 January 2022), or 2021 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.[6] A total of 16 NOC's will qualify for the mixed team snowboard cross event.[6] The athlete quota per event is listed below.

EventMenWomenMinimum FIS points
Big air/Slopestyle303050.00
Halfpipe252550.00
Parallel giant slalom3232100.00
Snowboard cross3232100.00
238 quotas119119
  • Big air and slopestyle have a combined event quota.

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events.[7]

Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+8).

DateTimeEvent
5 February10:45Women's slopestyle
6 February9:30Women's slopestyle
12:30Men's slopestyle
7 February12:00Men's slopestyle
8 February10:40Women's and Men's parallel giant slalom
9 February9:30Women's halfpipe
12:30Men's halfpipe
14:30Women's snowboard cross
10 February9:00Women's halfpipe
11:15Men's snowboard cross
11 February9:30Men's halfpipe
12 February10:00Mixed team snowboard cross
14 February9:30Women's big air
13:30Men's big air
15 February9:30Women's big air
13:00Men's big air

Medal summary

Austria and the United States won the most gold medals at these Games, with three apiece, while Canada led the overall standings with six medals.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Austria3104
 United States3104
3 Canada1146
4 China*1102
 New Zealand1102
6 Japan1023
7 Czech Republic1001
8 Australia0112
 Italy0112
 Slovenia0112
11 France0101
 Norway0101
 Spain0101
14 ROC0011
 Switzerland0011
Totals (15 nations)11111133

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Big air
Su Yiming
 China
182.50 Mons Røisland
 Norway
171.75 Max Parrot
 Canada
170.25
Halfpipe
Ayumu Hirano
 Japan
96.00 Scotty James
 Australia
92.50 Jan Scherrer
 Switzerland
87.25
Slopestyle
Max Parrot
 Canada
90.96 Su Yiming
 China
88.70 Mark McMorris
 Canada
88.53
Parallel giant slalom
Benjamin Karl
 Austria
Tim Mastnak
 Slovenia
Vic Wild
 ROC
Snowboard cross
Alessandro Hämmerle
 Austria
Éliot Grondin
 Canada
Omar Visintin
 Italy

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Big air
Anna Gasser
 Austria
185.50 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
 New Zealand
177.00 Kokomo Murase
 Japan
171.50
Halfpipe
Chloe Kim
 United States
94.00 Queralt Castellet
 Spain
90.25 Sena Tomita
 Japan
88.25
Slopestyle
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
 New Zealand
92.88 Julia Marino
 United States
87.68 Tess Coady
 Australia
84.15
Parallel giant slalom
Ester Ledecká
 Czech Republic
Daniela Ulbing
 Austria
Gloria Kotnik
 Slovenia
Snowboard cross
Lindsey Jacobellis
 United States
Chloé Trespeuch
 France
Meryeta O'Dine
 Canada

Mixed

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team snowboard cross
 United States
Nick Baumgartner
Lindsey Jacobellis
 Italy
Omar Visintin
Michela Moioli
 Canada
Éliot Grondin
Meryeta O'Dine

Participating nations

A total of 233 athletes (119 men and 114 women) from 31 nations (including the IOC's designation of ROC for the Russian Olympic Committee) qualified to participate.[8] Hungary and Malta made their Olympic sport debuts.[9][10]

The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered.

References

  1. "Schedule". BOCOG. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. "Aerials mixed team and freeski big air to be included in Beijing 2022 Olympic programme". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski Federation (FIS). 18 July 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. Zaccardi, Nick (18 July 2018). "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics add seven new events". www.olympics.nbcsports.com/. NBC. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  4. "Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 Event programme and athlete quota" (PDF). www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. "Official Programme of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022" (PDF). www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  6. "Qualification System for Xxiv Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 International Ski Federation Snowboard" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS). 23 May 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  8. "Entry List by NOC – Snowboard". Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  9. Vass, Ábrahám (20 January 2022). "For First Time Ever, Hungarian Snowboarder Qualifies for Winter Olympics". Hungary Today. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  10. Petri, Alexandra (8 February 2022). "Jenise Spiteri Is Malta's First Snowboarder, Only Athlete, at Olympics". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
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