Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's halfpipe

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Snowboarding at the
2006 Winter Olympics
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The men's halfpipe event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on 12 February 2006.

[edit] Medalists

Gold United States Shaun White
United States (USA)
Silver United States Danny Kass
United States (USA)
Bronze Finland Markku Koski
Finland (FIN)

[edit] Results

The halfpipe event for men took place on 12 February 2006, both the qualification rounds and the finals taking place on that day. Forty-four snowboarders took part in the qualification, the top twelve of whom move on to the finals.

In the qualification round, each snowboarder was given two runs to be in the top six of that run. Regardless of how many points the person receives, as long as they are one of the top six, they advance to the finals. If the person qualifies in the first run, they need not do a second run in the qualification.[1] Shaun White, the gold medalist for this event, came in seventh place after the first run, requiring him to compete again in the second run, where he scored the highest then so far in the event.[2] The finals proceeded in a similar fashion. The twelve qualifiers had two runs in which to score the highest possible points. The snowboarders were ranked by their highest score, and medals were awarded accordingly. The following is a table detailing the results of the qualification and finals runs of the competing snowboarders.[2][3]

Rank Name Qualification Final
Run 1 Run 2 Rank Run 1 Run 2
1 United States Shaun White (USA) 37.7 45.3 7 46.8 26.6
2 United States Danny Kass (USA) 43.8 — 1 20.8 44.0
3 Finland Markku Koski (FIN) 20.2 40.6 9 41.5 31.4
4 United States Mason Aguirre (USA) 43.4 — 3 40.3 37.1
5 Finland Antti Autti (FIN) 43.5 — 2 28.2 39.1
6 France Gary Zebrowski (FRA) 30.7 43.3 8 38.6 29.5
7 Switzerland Markus Keller (SUI) 33.7 38.3 11 29.3 38.5
8 Germany Christophe Schmidt (GER) 39.4 — 6 33.2 37.5
9 Germany Vinzenz Lueps (GER) 33.9 39.5 10 28.7 36.8
10 Finland Risto Mattila (FIN) 40.8 — 5 31.6 35.8
11 Canada Crispin Lipscomb (CAN) 19.6 37.9 12 23.4 33.5
12 United States Andy Finch (USA) 43.1 — 4 9.6 24.7
13 Italy Giacomo Kratter (ITA) 12.8 37.0 13
14 Japan Takaharu Nakai (JPN) 36.8 36.0 14
15 Germany Jan Michaelis (GER) 34.5 36.3 15
16 Canada Brad Martin (CAN) 27.2 34.7 16
17 France Mathieu Crépel (FRA) 37.4 34.4 17
18 Canada Hugo Lemay (CAN) 26.0 34.1 18
19 Switzerland Gian Simmen (SUI) 32.0 33.8 19
20 Finland Janne Korpi (FIN) 9.2 33.5 20
21 Canada Justin Lamoureux (CAN) 10.1 31.5 21
22 Japan Fumiyuki Murakami (JPN) 27.9 31.1 22
23 Japan Kazuhiro Kokubo (JPN) 26.9 31.0 23
24 Switzerland Frederik Kalbermatten (SUI) 16.8 30.8 24
25 New Zealand Mitchell Brown (NZL) 16.3 28.3 25
26 Great Britain Dan Wakeham (GBR) 14.3 27.8 26
27 Sweden Michael Lundmark (SWE) 32.5 27.2 27
28 Spain Iker Fernandez (ESP) 27.0 27.0 28
29 Poland Michał Ligocki (POL) 11.3 26.9 29
30 Norway Halvor Lunn (NOR) 24.2 26.4 30
31 Australia Mitchell Allan (AUS) 28.8 23.7 31
32 Australia Andrew Burton (AUS) 15.2 21.8 32
33 Czech Republic Martin Cernik (CZE) 18.8 20.1 33
34 Germany Xaver Hoffman (GER) 22.6 18.7 34
35 Japan Domu Narita (JPN) 31.5 14.7 35
36 Sweden Mikael Sandy (SWE) 19.7 14.0 36
37 Russia Iouri Podladtchikov (RUS) 1.0 13.6 37
38 Norway Frederik Austbø (NOR) 29.2 13.0 38
39 Switzerland Therry Brunner (SUI) 23.0 9.2 39
40 Sweden Stefan Karlsson (SWE) 11.5 8.7 40
41 Norway Kim Christiansen (NOR) 31.0 5.1 41
42 Australia Ben Mates (AUS) 4.9 5.0 42
43 Italy Manuel Pietropoli (ITA) 12.3 4.1 43
44 Poland Mateusz Ligocki (POL) 11.6 4.0 44

[edit] References

  1. ^ Event guide: Snowboard half-pipe. BBC Sport (2006-01-09). Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  2. ^ a b Snowboarding Results. Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  3. ^ Snowboard: Half-Pipe results. BBC Sport (2006-02-13). Retrieved on 2007-05-31.