Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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The 2006 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consisted of men's and women's Halfpipe, Parallel Giant Slalom and Snowboard Cross events.

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[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States (USA) 3 3 1 7
2 Switzerland Switzerland (SUI) 3 1 0 4
3 Germany Germany (GER) 0 1 0 1
Slovakia Slovakia (SVK) 0 1 0 1
5 Austria Austria (AUT) 0 0 1 1
Canada Canada (CAN) 0 0 1 1
Finland Finland (FIN) 0 0 1 1
France France (FRA) 0 0 1 1
Norway Norway (NOR) 0 0 1 1

[edit] Men

[edit] Halfpipe

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's Halfpipe

Shaun White won the gold medal in this event. [1].

Medal Athlete Score
Gold Shaun White (USA) 46.8
Silver Danny Kass (USA) 44.0
Bronze Markku Koski (FIN) 41.5
4 Mason Aguirre (USA) 40.3
5 Antti Autti (FIN) 39.1
6 Gary Zebrowski (FRA) 38.6
7 Markus Keller (SUI) 38.5
8 Christophe Schmidt (GER) 37.5
9 Vincent Lüps (GER) 36.8
10 Risto Mattila (FIN) 35.8

[edit] Parallel giant slalom

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom


Medal Athlete
Gold Image:Flag of the Switzerland.svg Phillip Schoch (SUI)
Silver Simon Schoch (SUI)
Bronze Siegfried Grabner (AUT)
4 Mathieu Bozzetto (FRA)
5 Heinz Inniger (SUI)
6 Dejan Kosir (SLO)
7 Rok Flander (SLO)
8 Gilles Jaquet (SUI)

[edit] Snowboard cross

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's Snowboard Cross

Snowboard Cross is a new event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Competitors race in groups of four with the top two going onto the next round. The course consists of a combination of jumps, turns and moguls. The events took place in Bardonecchia on February 16.

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Seth Westcott (USA)
Silver Radoslav Židek (SVK)
Bronze Paul-Henri Delerue (FRA)
4 Jordi Font (ESP)
5 Jasey-Jay Anderson (CAN)
6 Jason Smith (USA)
7 Damon Hayler (AUS)
8 Dieter Krassnig (AUT)
9 Marco Huser (SUI)
10 Francois Boivin (CAN)

[edit] Women

[edit] Halfpipe

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's Halfpipe
Medal Athlete Score
Gold Hannah Teter (USA) 46.4
Silver Gretchen Bleiler (USA) 43.4
Bronze Kjersti Buaas (NOR) 42.0
4 Kelly Clark (USA) 41.1
5 Torah Bright (AUS) 41.0
6 Elena Hight (USA) 37.8
7 Manuela Laura Pesko (SUI) 35.9
8 Doriane Vidal (FRA) 35.7
9 Shiho Nakashima (JPN) 33.1
10 Soko Yamaoka (JPN) 32.7

[edit] Parallel giant slalom

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's Parallel Giant Slalom
Medal Athlete Time
Gold Daniela Meuli (SUI)
Silver Amelie Kober (GER)
Bronze Rosey Fletcher (USA)
4 Doris Guenther (AUT)
5 Ekaterina Tudigescheva (RUS)
6 Julie Pomagalski (FRA)
7 Ursula Bruhin (SUI)
8 Svetlana Boldikova (RUS)

[edit] Snowboard cross

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's Snowboard Cross

Snowboard Cross is a new event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Competitors race in groups of four with the top two going onto the next round. The course consists of a combination of jumps, turns and moguls.

The event took place in Bardonecchia on February 17. The final race will be remembered for the fall of American Lindsey Jacobellis on the penultimate jump. Jacobellis had a commanding lead in the snowboard cross final but attempted a trick on the penultimate jump, lost her balance, and crashed to the ground, seeing Switzerland's Tanja Frieden passing her to take the gold medal.

The best showing for an athlete from a country where the occurrence of snow is rare was that of Isabel Clark Ribeiro from Brazil.

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Tanja Frieden (SUI)
Silver Lindsey Jacobellis (USA)
Bronze Dominique Maltais (CAN)
4 Maelle Ricker (CAN)
5 Mellie Francon (SUI)
6 Maria Danielsson (SWE)
7 Yuka Fujimori (JPN)
8 Marie Laissus (FRA)
9 Isabel Clark Ribeiro (BRA)
10 Deborah Anthonioz (FRA)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Men's Halfpipe - Final results, from nbcolympics.com
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