Snowboarding at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Snowboarding
Venue	Cypress Mountain
Dates	February 15–27, 2010
No. of events	6
Competitors	188 from 27 nations

Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Halfpipe	men	women
Parallel giant slalom	men	women
Snowboard cross	men	women

The snowboarding competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Cypress Mountain. The events were held between the 15 and 27 February 2010.

Medal summary

Medal table

^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	2	5
2	Canada (CAN)	2	1	0	3
3	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
5	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
6	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
7	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

Men's events^[1]

The medalists from the Snowboard cross. From left: Mike Robertson (silver), Seth Wescott (gold), Tony Ramoin (bronze)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Halfpipe	Shaun White  United States	48.4	Peetu Piiroinen  Finland	45.0	Scott Lago  United States	42.8
Parallel giant slalom	Jasey-Jay Anderson  Canada		Benjamin Karl  Austria		Mathieu Bozzetto  France
Snowboard cross	Seth Wescott  United States		Mike Robertson  Canada		Tony Ramoin  France

Women's events^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Halfpipe	Torah Bright  Australia	45.0	Hannah Teter  United States	42.4	Kelly Clark  United States	42.2
Parallel giant slalom	Nicolien Sauerbreij  Netherlands		Ekaterina Ilyukhina  Russia		Marion Kreiner  Austria
Snowboard cross	Maëlle Ricker  Canada		Déborah Anthonioz  France		Olivia Nobs  Switzerland

Competition schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Qualification

^[2] For the six events, there are a maximum 190 athletes allowed to compete. This includes a maximum of 30 in parallel giant slalom, 40 in halfpipe, and 40 in snowboard cross for men and 25 in parallel giant slalom, 30 in halfpipe, and 25 in snowboard cross for women. No nation can have more than 18 snowboarders with maximum of ten men or ten women per specific nation. For each event, no nation can enter four skiers per individual event.

Skiers are qualified if they have placed in the top 30 in an FIS World Cup event of FIS World Championships in the event concerned. A minimum of 100 FIS points in the respective event. Host nation Canada is expected to enter a skier in all events. If no skier meets the qualification standards, they can enter one skier per event.

Quota allocation will be given using the World Ranking List (WRL) for the twelve-month period of World Cup Standings from the 2008–09 and 2009-10 Snowboard World Cup and the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2009. It will be assigned one slot per skier from the top the WRL downwards. When a nation has the maximum four skiers per event, the next eligible nation on the WRL will be given a slot until the maximum total per event in moguls, aerials, and ski cross per gender has been reached.

In the case any nation is given more than 18 skiers, it is up the nation to select the team of a maximum of 18 skiers by 25 January 2010. Once quota slots are allocated by the FIS and the national entries confirmed, a reallocation of unused slots per event will be made by the FIS to the next eligible nation on the WRL for quota allocation in the respective event and gender. This process started on 18 January 2010 and will run until 28 January 2010. Deadline to VANOC is 1 February 2010.

Participating nations

Twenty-seven nations competed in the snowboarding events at Vancouver.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

• May 2009 FIS Qualification for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 22 January 2010. Snowboarding is on pages 14–16.
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12 Archived 2010-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Associated Press: Olympic Snowboard Results