Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe

Men's halfpipe
at the XX Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for snowboarding
Venue Bardonecchia
Date February 12, 2006
Competitors 44 from 17 nations
Medalists
    United States
    United States
    Finland
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2006 Winter Olympics
Halfpipe   men   women
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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.

Medalists

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

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 received, as long as they placed in the top six, they advanced to the finals. If the person qualified in the first run, they did not need to 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 recorded the highest score of the event to that point.[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  Shaun White (USA) 37.7 45.3 7 46.8 26.6
2  Danny Kass (USA) 43.8 1 20.8 44.0
3  Markku Koski (FIN) 20.2 40.6 9 41.5 31.4
4  Mason Aguirre (USA) 43.4 3 40.3 37.1
5  Antti Autti (FIN) 43.5 2 28.2 39.1
6  Gary Zebrowski (FRA) 30.7 43.3 8 38.6 29.5
7  Markus Keller (SUI) 33.7 38.3 11 29.3 38.5
8  Christophe Schmidt (GER) 39.4 6 33.2 37.5
9  Vinzenz Lueps (GER) 33.9 39.5 10 28.7 36.8
10  Risto Mattila (FIN) 40.8 5 31.6 35.8
11  Crispin Lipscomb (CAN) 19.6 37.9 12 23.4 33.5
12  Andy Finch (USA) 43.1 4 9.6 24.7
13  Giacomo Kratter (ITA) 12.8 37.0 13
14  Takaharu Nakai (JPN) 36.8 36.0 14
15  Jan Michaelis (GER) 34.5 36.3 15
16  Brad Martin (CAN) 27.2 34.7 16
17  Mathieu Crépel (FRA) 37.4 34.4 17
18  Hugo Lemay (CAN) 26.0 34.1 18
19  Gian Simmen (SUI) 32.0 33.8 19
20  Janne Korpi (FIN) 9.2 33.5 20
21  Justin Lamoureux (CAN) 10.1 31.5 21
22  Fumiyuki Murakami (JPN) 27.9 31.1 22
23  Kazuhiro Kokubo (JPN) 26.9 31.0 23
24  Frederik Kalbermatten (SUI) 16.8 30.8 24
25  Mitchell Brown (NZL) 16.3 28.3 25
26  Dan Wakeham (GBR) 14.3 27.8 26
27  Michael Lundmark (SWE) 32.5 27.2 27
28  Iker Fernandez (ESP) 27.0 27.0 28
29  Michał Ligocki (POL) 11.3 26.9 29
30  Halvor Lunn (NOR) 24.2 26.4 30
31  Mitchell Allan (AUS) 28.8 23.7 31
32  Andrew Burton (AUS) 15.2 21.8 32
33  Martin Cernik (CZE) 18.8 20.1 33
34  Xaver Hoffman (GER) 22.6 18.7 34
35  Domu Narita (JPN) 31.5 14.7 35
36  Mikael Sandy (SWE) 19.7 14.0 36
37  Iouri Podladtchikov (RUS) 1.0 13.6 37
38  Frederik Austbø (NOR) 29.2 13.0 38
39  Therry Brunner (SUI) 23.0 9.2 39
40  Stefan Karlsson (SWE) 11.5 8.7 40
41  Kim Christiansen (NOR) 31.0 5.1 41
42  Ben Mates (AUS) 4.9 5.0 42
43  Manuel Pietropoli (ITA) 12.3 4.1 43
44  Mateusz Ligocki (POL) 11.6 4.0 44

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