Snowboarding at the: XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Mount Yakebitai (giant slalom) & Kanbayashi Snowboard Park (halfpipe) |
Dates | 8β12 February 1998 |
Competitors | 125 from 22 nations |
2002 → |
Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics | ||
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Halfpipe | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 8. And 12 February 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant slalom and halfpipe.
This was the "first Olympic appearance of snowboarding." Although a separate snowboard federation was established in 1994, the International Ski Federation brought snowboard under its jurisdiction with encouragement from the IOC.
Medal summaryβ»
Medal tableβ»
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Men's eventsβ»
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Giant slalom details |
Ross Rebagliati![]() |
2:03.96 | Thomas Prugger![]() |
2:03.98 | Ueli Kestenholz![]() |
2:04.08 |
Halfpipe details |
Gian Simmen![]() |
85.2 | Daniel Franck![]() |
82.4 | Ross Powers![]() |
82.1 |
Women's eventsβ»
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Giant slalom details |
Karine Ruby![]() |
2:17.34 | Heidi Renoth![]() |
2:19.17 | Brigitte KΓΆck![]() |
2:19.42 |
Halfpipe details |
Nicola Thost![]() |
74.6 | Stine Brun Kjeldaas![]() |
74.2 | Shannon Dunn-Downing![]() |
72.8 |
Participating nationsβ»
Twenty-two nations participated in snowboarding at the Nagano Games.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Nagano 1998 Official Report β Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ^ "Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Olympic Snowboard: Snowboarding Debuts as an Olympic Sport". Official Canadian Olympic Team Website. Retrieved 24 February 2014.