Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...
at the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
were held at the
Genting Snow Park in
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the south ...
and
Big Air Shougang
Big Air Shougang ( zh, c=首钢滑雪大跳台, p=Shǒugāng huáxuě dà tiàotái) is a sports stadium in the Shijingshan District in Beijing, China, built to host the big air events of the 2022 Winter Olympics. It is the world's first permanent ...
in
Beijing
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,
China
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. The events took place between 5 and 15 February 2022. A total of 11 snowboarding events will be held.
In July 2018, the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
(IOC) officially added the mixed team snowboard cross event to the Olympic program, increasing the total number of events to 11.
A total of 238 quota spots were distributed to the sport of snowboarding, a decline of 20 from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A total of 11 events were contested, five for men, five for women and one mixed.
Qualification
A total of 238 athletes qualified 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.
A total of 16 NOC's will qualify for the mixed team snowboard cross event.
[ The athlete quota per event is listed below.
*Big air and slopestyle have a combined event quota.
]
Competition schedule
The following is the competition schedule for all eleven events.
Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.
All times are (UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 24% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a ...
).
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
Medalists
Men's events
Women's events
Mixed
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. Hungary and Malta made their Olympic snowboarding debuts.
References
External links
Official Results Book – Snowboard
{{Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics were held at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou and Big Air Shougang in Beijing, China. The events took place between 5 and 15 February 2022. A total of 11 snowboarding events will be held.
In July ...
2022
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2022 Winter Olympics events
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...