The women's halfpipe competition in
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 ...
was held on 9 February (qualification) and 10 February (final), at the
Genting Snow Park
The then Beijing Olympic Games Bidding Committee unveiled the venue layout plan for the 2022 Winter Olympics on 20 February 2014:the plan was include the five ice events at the Olympic Green, the Capital Indoor Stadium and the Wukesong Sports Cen ...
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 southw ...
.
Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpi ...
of the United States won the event, defending her 2018 title.
Queralt Castellet of Spain won the silver medal and
Sena Tomita of Japan the bronze, the first Olympic medals for both of them.
The 2018 silver medalist,
Liu Jiayu, qualified at the Olympics, but the bronze medalist,
Arielle Gold, did not qualify. At the
2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup
The 2020–21 FIS Snowboard World Cup is the 28th World Cup season in snowboarding organised by International Ski Federation. The season started on 23 October 2021 and will conclude on 27 March 2022. Competitions consist of parallel slalom, parall ...
, only three halfpipe events were held before the Olympics.
Cai Xuetong were leading the ranking, followed by Tomita and
Mitsuki Ono. Kim was the
2021 world champion, with
Maddie Mastro and Castellet being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Kim was also the
2021 X-Games winner in super-pipe, ahead of Mastro and
Haruna Matsumoto.
Qualification
A total of 25 snowboarders qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points in Big Air or Slopestyle on the FIS Points List on January 17, 2022, and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event in Big Air or slopestyle or at the
FIS Snowboard World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.
Results
Qualification
: Q — Qualified for the Final
The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advanced to the Final.
Qualification results
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Final
References
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Women's snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics